Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Democratic nominee Joe BIden pushed back during Thursday night's debate against President Donald Trump's repeated claim that he would tank the economy with shutdowns if elected. "I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country," Biden said. "It's his ineptitude that caused the country to have to shut down in large part," he added. The line was part of a concerted strategy from the Biden campaign to chip away at Trump's last stronghold in polling, with more voters approving of the president's handling of the economy for months.