Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, October 23rd. I'm Naila Boodoo. And here's how we're making you smarter today. What you need to know about Nigeria's police brutality protests, plus how Europe is reckoning with its colonial past.

First, though, the takeaways from the final presidential debate

are today's one big thing.

Margaret Televis exios White House and Politics Editor.

Margaret, that debate was actually a substantial debate.

Voters actually heard from the candidates on a variety of issues.

That's absolutely right. If you were living in a cave or just got out of a coma and you hadn't been hanging any attention and you were like,

what's the difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? You could actually watch this and find out from coronavirus and health care.

And he has no clear plan and there's no prospect that there's going to be a vaccine

available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year.

To figure out what to do about North Korea or the future of the oil industries.

We're going to have the greatest economy in the world, but if you want to kill the economy, get rid of your oil industry. And what about fracking?

The question is, why was it different? I think there's a few reasons why it was different. Number

one, that muting of the microphone threat really worked. Number two, the president's own team were like,

you need to dial it back, you're in trouble, and he followed suit. And then number three,

I just think the moderator, Kristen Welker, had a very good command of the situation.

So let's go back to some of those moments if we could, because we started off talking about the

coronavirus. What to you stood out?

One was Joe Biden making very clear

that he believes that under President Trump,

people who have become sick with coronavirus and people who have lost their jobs during the pandemic

will lose health insurance.

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