Biden news: Campaign aide says Trump should have ‘gone to school’ on Covid ‘200,000 lives ago’
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Your support makes all the difference.Joe Biden offered his prayers for the recovery of Donald and Melania Trump as he agreed to face the president at the second debate on 15 October.
Speaking at a campaign event in Florida on Monday, Biden told reporters he didn't want to comment on the president's behaviour while suffering from coronavirus. Later at his his campaign rally, Biden said Trump needed to listen to the scientists and call for a nationwide mask rule.
On the stump at his Bernie for Biden event in Michigan, Bernie Sanders said Biden would be the most progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The Kamala Harris side of the Democratic ticket, meanwhile, is moving forward with the vice presidential debate against Mike Pence as long as there is a plexiglass divider between the two contenders.
Elsewhere, Biden adviser Antony Blinken, hit out at Trump over the president’s belated claim that he has “learned a lot about Covid” since his diagnosis and admission to hospital on Friday.
Blinken, the Democratic presidential nominee’s adviser on foreign policy, said on that Trump’s acknowledgement that he had "gone to school” on coronavirus by catching it, having spent months downplaying its seriousness, was not only ”devastating" but should have occurred “200k deaths ago, not when it affected you" - the figure an allusion to the number of US casualties so far.
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Civil disobedience at Bernie for Biden campaign stumping
A maskless Trump supporter got up in Bernie Sanders’ maskless face quite literally today, as they waived a giant Trump flat between the podium and the cameras.
And here she is as someone grabs her flag while she either stages a sit-in, falls or gets knocked to the ground - it’s difficult to discern from the camera angle.
Biden and Trump campaigns agree on one thing: Attacking that NYT as publishing fake news
The Biden campaign’s director of rapid response just called The New York Times fake news. Or, to be precise, even worse than the original real fake news of The Onion.
Who knew this would be the issue that got bi-partisan support from Trump and Biden campaigns.
This snapshot of alignment will likely only last as long as there are negative stories the campaigns are unhappy with.
On this occasion, it’s from the NYT saying Biden’s campaign has been “cagey on health questions”, which have taken on new significance since Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and the ex-veep’s prolonged exposure to the president.
"Mr Biden, who is ahead in national polls and many battleground state surveys, still faces the possibility of a positive test,” the Times wrote. It later added: “[Biden] is continuing to campaign rather than quarantine, and his campaign has been cagey about his health protocols.”
Here’s what Andrew Bates had to say in response.
Ilhan Omar hits back at suggestion Biden should suspend campaign following Trump coronavirus diagnosis
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar has pushed back at suggestions that candidate Joe Biden should suspend his campaign in the wake of Donald Trump coronavirus diagnosis.
Louise Hall has the report.
Ilhan Omar hits back at suggestion Biden should suspend campaign following Trump coronavirus diagnosis
‘We know Trump would’ve had ads up by noon today ridiculing Biden’, she tweeted
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