Donald Trump’s efforts to ignore the virus in the campaign is long gone….
Joe Biden said Monday that he wasn’t surprised that President Donald Trump contracted Covid-19 because the president hasn’t followed health experts’ guidelines to wear a mask and social distance.
“Quite frankly, I wasn’t surprised,” the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee said during an NBC News town hall with host Lester Holt in Miami…
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Asked if Trump bears some responsibility for contracting the disease caused by the coronavirus, Biden said, “Anybody who contracts the virus by essentially saying masks don’t matter, social distancing doesn’t matter, I think is responsible for what happens to them.”
The primetime event at the Pérez Art Museum lasted for an hour and featured questions from mostly undecided voters. Florida is a key battleground state in this year’s election, a state that Trump carried in 2016.
Biden also criticized Trump for the tweet he posted before being discharged from Walter Reed on Monday in which he told Americans “don’t be afraid of Covid.”…
image…Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a NBC Town Hall at Pérez Art Museum, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Miami, as moderator Lester Holt listens. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)