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Biden Seizes Trump’s Populist Mantle

The president vowed to remember the forgotten men and women of America—but tonight, he forgot them.
Source: Julio Cortez / AP

“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people,” President Donald Trump said during his inaugural address. “January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”

But in the final debate of his first term, Trump forgot them.

The second and last debate of this cycle was , and while Trump was more in command of his emotions, it was probably Democrat Joe Biden’s strongest debate of the election cycle. Trump repeatedly tried to bait Biden with

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