President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in more than 90 minutes of actual debate Thursday. It was civil, calm, sedate, substantive (at times) and, almost, even normal. None of those words could be used to describe their first clash, in Cleveland. But Trump, chastened by Republicans for his over-aggressive performance last month, arrived in what was, for him, restrained fashion as he tried to reinvigorate his flagging campaign. But his relatively subdued performance seemed unlikely to be enough to shift the trajectory of a race that has been unmoved by far larger world events. Here are six takeaways from the final 2020 presidential debate. They actually debated! After the first debate debacle, the debate commission imposed a mute feature for the opening statements of both candidates for each segment.