[Follow our live updates on Trump vs Biden in the 2020 Election.] Mr. Biden lamented privately to advisers — and occasionally in public — that it was nearly impossible to debate with such a crowd. “If you had a debate with five other people, you might actually get a chance to say something,” Mr. Biden told donors in Hollywood last fall. Now, Mr. Biden will get his chance. Given Mr. Biden’s current polling edge, his advisers have been downplaying the debate’s significance even as the former vice president has plunged himself into days of intense preparations.

Source: New York Times September 28, 2020 09:00 UTC