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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden participates in the final presidential debate against the President of the United States, Donald Trump, at Belmont University on October 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
PHOTO: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
- Joe Biden and Barack Obama accused Donald Trump of “a huge mistake” in his handling of the coronavirus.
- The United States has set a new record with almost 89,000 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours.
- On Saturday, Trump cast his own vote saying “I voted for a guy named Trump.”
Energetic Joe Biden and Barack Obama accused Donald Trump of a massive mistake in his handling of the coronavirus on Saturday, but the US president remained flustered despite lagging the polls with 10 days to go.
Trump went through three campaign rallies in one day, targeting separate battlefield states as he sought to bridge the gap with Biden.
But the president’s efforts have been inevitably overshadowed by a grim reality: The United States set a daily record for new Covid-19 cases for the second day in a row on Saturday, at nearly 89,000, and a further increase is expected when the day arrives. Cold weather.
The virus has claimed more than 224,000 American lives, with no end in sight, and most voters say Trump has mishandled the crisis.
“That’s the presidency of Donald Trump,” Biden said Saturday during a drive-in movie, one of two events in his native Pennsylvania, a critical state. He spoke from a stage decorated with hay bales and Halloween pumpkins.
“Donald Trump said, and continues to say, that we are turning the corner. He is leaving. We are learning to live with it.”
Biden added: “We are not learning to live with it. You are asking us to learn to die with it and it’s wrong.”
The Biden campaign also deployed a key surrogate, former President Barack Obama, who criticized the Trump administration’s Covid-19 response.
“The idea that somehow this White House has done anything but screw this up is bullshit,” Obama told supporters at a rally in Miami, Florida.
“Donald Trump is not going to protect us all all of a sudden. He can’t even take the basic steps to protect himself,” Obama added, referring to Trump’s hospitalization for Covid-19 three weeks ago.
Also criticizing the fact that the president has not denounced white supremacy and the many times he has lied in public, among other issues, Obama asked his followers to vote for his former vice president.
“We can make things better … That’s what voting is about, not making things perfect, but making things better,” he said.
“If we vote up and down like never before, we will elect Joe Biden.”
‘I get it’
Trump ignored Obama’s criticism and said on Twitter that the former president had only “47 people” at his event.
“No energy, but still better than Joe!” joked.
And he shrugged off polls that continue to show his Democratic rival Biden leading the race.
“They want to depress you,” he said about the political and media outlets that report the figures. “These polls are much better than four years ago.”
“This election is a choice between a super recovery for Trump and a depression for Biden,” he told his supporters under a blazing North Carolina sun, highlighting the promises of a cure for Covid-19 and a rapid economic recovery.
Biden has a firm lead in national polls and a more limited lead in many battle states like Florida, which typically decide the winner of the US presidential election.
But Democrats aren’t about to forget the surprising surprise Trump had in 2016 when he defeated Hillary Clinton, and Biden worked to undermine Trump supporters on Saturday.
“I understand why some people voted for Donald Trump, they think they didn’t see them, they didn’t respect them, they didn’t hear them … I get it. But then they elected him, he immediately forgot about the Forgotten Man,” he said in a second. rally in Dallas, Pennsylvania.
“You know, you will be seen and heard and respected by me … if you are elected president, there will be no red states or blue states, only the United States,” he said.
Trump’s current grueling trips point to repeating his 2016 feat.
Earlier Saturday, Trump cast his own ballot at a Florida public library and told reporters with a smile, “I voted for a guy named Trump.”
Thus, he became one of nearly 55 million Americans who cast their early votes in a year in which the coronavirus has made voting in person problematic.
Campaigning at a frantic pace, Trump then shifted from North Carolina to Ohio, then to Wisconsin, where he doubled down on his optimism, repeating claims that the country is “rounding out” the pandemic.
Referring to earlier comments by Biden warning of a “dark winter” with Covid-19, Trump said he thought his rival was “very dark.”
“They say you sound too optimistic,” he added of himself. “That’s right, because I love this country. We are optimistic … Our country next year will be bigger than ever.”
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