Graphic: The topics the candidates talked about in the first presidential debate

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Track what President Donald Trump and Joe Biden talked about and how much they stayed on topic at the first presidential debate.

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President Donald Trump faced Joe Biden in the first of three presidential debates in Cleveland on Tuesday. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace moderated the debate.Chelsea Stahl / NBC News

Sept. 29, 2020, 9:02 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 29, 2020, 10:52 PM EDT

By Jiachuan Wu, Naitian Zhou, Nigel Chiwaya and Joe Murphy

The first presidential debate took place Tuesday in Cleveland. President Donald Trump and Joe Biden covered more than a dozen subjects as they made their cases for why they should be president.

The tracker below counts the topics the candidates discussed. Certain debate topics were announced a week ago, with the caveat that other newsworthy subjects could be added.

Read all about the debate on the NBC News live blog of the first presidential debate.

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