Trump’s Answer on White Supremacists Reverberates After Debate

President Trump and Joe Biden tried to shift back to their respective campaign themes after a raucous first debate that left prominent members of both parties responding to Mr. Trump’s deflections when asked to condemn white supremacists.

Mr. Biden, the former vice president, spoke Wednesday at a train station in Cleveland as he started a tour across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania and said the debate proved that Mr. Trump doesn’t understand the lives of working-class Americans. The president, meanwhile, slammed moderator Chris Wallace, a Fox News anchor, and said in morning tweets that Mr. Biden sought during the debate to distance himself from more liberal members of his party.