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11:19 PM on Sep 29, 2020 CDT — Updated at 11:49 PM on Sep 29, 2020 CDTUpdated at 11:50 p.m. with more reaction.Chaos ensued at the first presidential debate, as Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump faced off for the first time in Cleveland Tuesday.Over the 90-minute debate, Texans across the political spectrum reacted to the mutual bickering and relentless interruptions.Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development under President Barack Obama and who ran for the Democratic nomination for president last year, tweeted throughout the debate. As Trump began interrupting and talking over Biden, Castro said saying his five-year-old had more self-control than the president.My five-year-old son has more self-control than Donald Trump.— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro)Castro was quick to call out Trump for refusing to condemn white supremacist and militia groups at protests. Instead, Trump told the Proud Boys, a far-right group known for engaging in political violence to “stand back, stand by,” and blamed violence at protests on the Antifa movement.Castro said the reason why the president could not condemn white supremacists is that “he is one.”Of course Trump can’t condemn white nationalists and supremacists. He is one.— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro)Hegar used Trump’s reference to the Proud Boys as an opportunity to point the staunch support of the president from her opponent, Republican Sen. John Cornyn.“The president that John Cornyn supports just told them to ‘stand by,'” she tweeted.The Proud Boys is a racist, sexist, far-right, neo-Fascist organization that promotes and incites violence.The president that John Cornyn supports just told them to "stand by." — MJ Hegar (@mjhegar)Cruz attacked Biden’s energy plan while the two candidates debated policy around climate change.Joe Biden’s energy plan would not only destroy hundreds of thousands of American jobs – it would also seriously undermine U.S. energy independence. — Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz)Texas briefly entered the spotlight of the debate when Wallace referenced Fort Worth as a city with a Republican mayor that has seen . Veasey, who represents a district running from Fort Worth to West Dallas, said Fort Worth could benefit from Biden’s plan to invest in “community policing.”“Biden can help make things better with his plan to invest more in community policing,” Veasey said.I’m from Fort Worth and live here today. The spikes here are real and our Mayor is republican. Biden can help make things better with his plan to invest more in community policing. — Marc Veasey (@MarcVeasey)Acevedo only weighed in once during the evening to contest a claim by Trump that diversity training is “racist.”Trump made the claim while touting his executive order from earlier this month intended “to combat offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating.” The order bans federal agencies and contractors from funding such trainings.In 34 years of policing, including myriad training sessions involving cultural diversity and implicit bias, I have never witnessed or heard of any training session teaching to hate our country. In fact, some of the joint training with young activists have been very impactful.— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo)Debate moderator Chris Wallace came under fire from politicians across the political spectrum. Many Republicans were outraged with Wallace inserting himself into the debate, by fact-checking the president and calling him out for interrupting Biden.Jackson called the moderator “an embarrassment to Fox News” and demanded he be fired.Fire Chris Wallace! He is an embarrassment to Fox News!!— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJackson4TX)Escobar joined the dogpile on Wallace over his inability to gain control of the debate. Some users called for Trump’s microphone to be cut in order to stop him from interrupting Biden. Escobar said there was no need and that a better moderator would have been able to cut through the din.Cutting the mic would be worse.Biden would still have to try to focus and answer q’s while Trump - just feet away - would continue his yapping. Americans would only see Biden trying to plow through the noise without context.Best just to have a real moderator next time.— Veronica Escobar (@vgescobar)Throughout the debate, Biden laughed and scoffed at Trump, and he even told him to “shut up, man.” At one point, he called the president a “clown.”Weber responded to Biden’s insult by calling him an “idiot, an imbecile, a Socialist Puppet for the radical left.”Biden just called President Trump a clown? He is an idiot, an imbecile, a Socialist Puppet for the radical left &amp; a stupid old partisan hack needing help...GOD help him; YOU &amp; Trump are his only hope &amp; America’s only hope should this CRAZY socialist get elected? — Randy Weber (@TXRandy14)The mayor of Houston provided colorful commentary throughout the debate, telling his followers to “pray for our country!” Once the two candidates began to trade barbs in earnest shortly after, Turner offered some advice: “put your children to bed!” And when Wallace was drawn into the conflict later in the evening, he posed a question: “Are you praying for the moderator?”Pray for our country! st— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner)By the end of the debate, Turner had seen enough.“We don’t need another debate,” he tweeted. “Please don’t put the country through this trauma again.”We don’t need another debate. Please don’t put the country through this trauma again. That’s enough. st— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner)Receive the latest political news delivered every Tuesday and Thursday from reporters in Austin, Dallas and Washington.By signing up you agree to our

11:19 PM on Sep 29, 2020 CDT — Updated at 11:49 PM on Sep 29, 2020 CDTUpdated at 11:50 p.m. with more reaction.Chaos ensued at the first presidential debate, as Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump faced off for the first time in Cleveland Tuesday.Over the 90-minute debate, Texans across the political spectrum reacted to the mutual bickering and relentless interruptions.Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development under President Barack Obama and who ran for the Democratic nomination for president last year, tweeted throughout the debate. As Trump...

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