When it comes to campaigning and the coronavirus, President Donald Trump accuses his Democratic opponent Joe Biden of hiding out in his basement, while Biden charges the president with putting those around him at risk. Their different approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic have trickled down to the frontlines of their national campaigns, too.

“The GOP, they don’t believe in the pandemic. They doorknock,” said Ed Bruley, the Macomb County, Mich., Democratic Party chairman. “Everyone has a different approach, and we reflect our candidate.”

President Donald Trump urged the Commission on Presidential Debates to postpone his next meetup with challenger Joe Biden rather than host it remotely. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate,” Trump said Thursday on Fox news. He wants to move the scheduled debate from Oct. 15 to Oct. 22 with the final debate on Oct. 29, only five days before the election. Biden’s campaign rejected that offer and wanted to hold just one more debate on Oct. 22. “[Trump] changes his mind every second,” Biden said Thursday.

More polite debate norms returned to the stage on Wednesday as the vice presidential candidates faced each other. But Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left voters in the dark on answers to important questions as they systematically avoided direct responses to moderator Susan Page of USA Today.

By my latest calculation, the roughly half-million people who make up WORLD’s readers and listeners each week are likely to divide their votes next month among three different groupings:

Those who hope to elect Donald Trump—Something well over 50 percent. Half will be enthusiastic about their choice, and others will cast their ballots under duress.

Those who favor Joe Biden—If it’s over 25 percent, almost everyone will be surprised. Only a handful will be excited about that choice.

“I am pro-life. I don’t apologize for it,” GOP Vice President Mike Pence said during Wednesday night's vice presidential debate, adding that President Donald Trump “stands for the sanctity of human life.” Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris said: “I will always fight for a woman’s right to make a decision about her own body.” The two nominees debated at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in a more polite and formal encounter than the presidential debate last week.

When Jaime Harrison arrived for a televised debate with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Oct. 3, the Democratic challenger brought his own personal protective equipment: Harrison set up a tall, multipaneled, plexiglass divider around his lectern.

“Tonight I’m taking this seriously,” he said.

It had been a seriously distressing week: Four days earlier, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden faced off in their first presidential debate, and the evening proved a source of misery for moderator and viewers alike.

President Donald Trump’s physician reported the president was doing “very well” on Saturday morning after checking into Walter Reed Hospital on Friday evening to undergo treatment for the coronavirus.