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Former Vice President Biden is ahead of Trump in polls
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In two separate but simultaneous television appearances, US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden drew more viewers than Republican Donald Trump. Consequently, 15.1 million people watched Biden’s 90-minute television appearance on ABC on Thursday night. Trump was tuned in by 13.5 million viewers during his 60-minute appearance on NBC and affiliated cable channels MSNBC and CNBC.
During the one-hour period that both presidential candidates were on the air at the same time, Biden led with 14.3 million viewers. Originally, the second television duel between Trump and Biden was supposed to take place last Thursday. Since Trump, who was infected with the corona virus, rejected a virtual debate, the dispute was canceled. Instead, both candidates were interviewed on separate broadcasts. The first television match was watched by more than 73 million Americans. The second television match should be rescheduled for next Thursday.
Trump, meanwhile, stepped up his attacks on the family of his challenger Biden. “Joe Biden is a corrupt politician,” the Republican said Friday (local time) during a campaign appearance in Ocala, Florida. “And the Biden family is a criminal enterprise.” He added: “The Bidens got rich while America was robbed.”
Trump described the “mainstream media” as “enemies of the people” and accused them of failing to report on “the world’s greatest story”, referring to the alleged corruption of Democrat Biden. Trump supporters chanted “Lock him up” when Biden’s name was mentioned – this was the catchphrase that Trump supporters had used in the election campaign four years ago to challenge Hillary Clinton. Trump has been raising corruption allegations against former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter for a long time and without proof, which have now been fired by the “New York Post” tabloid.
The newspaper tried in recent days to link Joe Biden to his son Hunter Biden’s earlier deals in Ukraine and China. The newspaper published emails alleging that Hunter Biden was trying to cash in on his father’s office as vice president at the time. The newspaper also evaluated the emails as evidence that Joe Biden, contrary to his testimony, knew about his son’s controversial foreign business. Joe Biden denies that he was guilty of anything. The authenticity of the emails has not been confirmed.
How the emails reached the public is also questionable. They are said to have been found on a laptop in a repair shop. The “New York Post” said it received a hard drive copy from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney and close confidante, last weekend. The copy was made by the owner of the repair shop before the FBI seized the laptop in December 2019, the newspaper reported.
Hunter Biden was a member of the Burisma gas company supervisory board from 2014 to 2019. Trump accused Biden, among other things, of using his position as vice president in the Barack Obama administration (until 2017) to try to protect his son of the Ukrainian judiciary. Biden rejects that. Trump wanted to get investigations in Ukraine. The conflict sparked an impeachment process against Trump, which failed in February due to a Republican majority in the Senate.
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