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Trump entered the final debate trying to sell himself as the man who had beaten back COVID, but the numbers, the public-health record, and the basic reality of life in late October 2020 kept undercutting him. The closing message was supposed to be strength and reopening; it landed more like denial with stage lighting.
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Trump entered the final debate trying to sell himself as the man who had beaten back COVID, but the numbers, the public-health record, and the basic reality of life in late October 2020 kept undercutting him. The closing message was supposed to be strength and reopening; it landed more like denial with stage lighting.
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