Alana Wise

At the same time but on different networks, the candidates answered questions about a range of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, which was part of the reason for the separate events.

The second face-off of the general election season was scheduled for next week in Miami.

The White House said Friday it would give an update when the president tests negative and is cleared by his medical team. His doctor said Thursday he expected Trump would be good to go by the weekend.

The president's doctor on Thursday said Trump has completed his course of therapy for COVID-19, but he did not update the president's coronavirus test results.

The White House accused Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of "sowing division by making these outlandish allegations" in her remarks Thursday.

In explaining the court's decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that it was the bench's longstanding position not to alter state voting rules this close to an election.

Pence carried on with his usual schedule on Friday, even as a number of prominent Republicans revealed COVID-19 diagnoses on Friday.

The president, who tested positive for the coronavirus, "has completed his first dose and is resting comfortably," physician Sean Conley said in a statement.

Democrats and Republicans were split in their public reaction to President Trump's recent remarks.

The move comes after a weekend incident that led to him being involuntarily hospitalized by police.