Final debate focused on coronavirus bout

NASHVILLE: In their final debate, President Donald Trump and Democratic Joe Biden offered sharply different visions of how to handle the surging pandemic, with the incumbent declaring that the virus will go away and his challenger warning that the nation was heading toward “a dark winter.”

The night in Nashville opened with a clash over the president’s handling of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 225,000 Americans and cost millions of jobs. Polling suggests it is the campaign’s defining issue for voters, and Biden declared, “Anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain president of the United States of America.”