Since Biden remains in his basement and has a total of zero campaign events scheduled with eight days until the election, his deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield was out to play defense.

During an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, she said "Look, as Joe Biden said on the debate stage, he is not going to end the fossil fuel industry, he's going to end subsidies for the oil industry. He believes that your taxpayer dollars should go to education. Donald Trump believes that they should go to Exxon. That is a contrast and a conversation and that we're willing to have any day."

Whether or not you buy that defense depends on if you believe what Biden's campaign manager says, or what your own hears heard Biden himself say.