Biden: 'We shouldn't have' second debate if Trump still has COVID-19

By rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 8:35pm |

A rational voice

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday he and President Trump should not go ahead with next week's presidential debate if Trump still has COVID-19.

Biden, who clashed with Trump at a chaotic first debate last week, told reporters at an airport in Hagerstown, Md., that the pair's second scheduled face-off should follow protocols from health officials.

The former vice president said he will ultimately be guided by the Cleveland Clinic, which is overseeing health conditions for all presidential and vice presidential debates this year.

“I think if he still has COVID, we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden said of Trump, who was diagnosed with the disease last Thursday.

“I think we were gonna have to follow very strict guidelines. Too many people have been infected. It’s a very serious problem, so I will be guided by the guidelines of the Cleveland Clinic and what the docs say is the right thing to do,” he added.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/519914-biden-we-shouldnt-have-a-debate-if-trump-still-has-covid-19

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Pence is ridiculing Harris for wanting a partition

The White House and the Pentagon are hotbeds

Pence is the head of the COVID Task Force

There is no Trump COVID plan

Trump has COVID

Trump's decision making process is clouded by steroids, COVID, and fatigue.

Biden can walk away from the debate and lose nothing.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 8:47pm

I think the Biden/Harris team should accept every challenge.
By demanding the conditions it puts on the other side to keep it safe as a talking point makes Pence's contempt look like weakness.

by moat on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 9:01pm

you are a good poker player?

Obviously Pence had minimal leverage, since he's the one who wants the debate to go forward. https://t.co/N26NYP2p7T
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 7, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 12:14am

in this instance, though, turns out there's a back story:

Stephen Miller tests positive a day after his wife, a Pence aide, mocked Kamala Harris for wanting COVID protections at tomorrow’s VP debate. https://t.co/mpEDRDrGN2
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) October 6, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 12:26am

I hear Paul Harvey.. Good day!?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 1:03am

Utah is putting up the plexiglass. Pence could do a walkout like he did at the NFL game, pathetic.

by NCD on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 10:29pm

Pence was supposedly the rational one. If he ridicules the plexiglass onstage, he comes across as an idiot. He should be in quarantine. Those from the WH and GOP should wear masks.

by rmrd0000 on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 11:26pm

& Pence shld be quarantined

https://presswatchers.org/2020/10/the-first-thing-you-need-to-know-about...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 2:24pm

If @HillaryClinton had been hospitalized with a deadly virus weeks before the 2016 campaign, had not been seen on camera in days, and only put out brief statements like this from her doctor (instead of allowing for briefings), the right-wing media machine would be apocalyptic. https://t.co/k4Qh2WnFFa
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 7, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 2:55pm

Debate Commission lets slip they are clearly not on "Team Covid":

"We beg you,” Frank J Fahrenkopf of the presidential debate commission urges the audience in Salt Lake City, “Please do not take off your mask."
— Matt Viser (@mviser) October 8, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 8:49pm

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