Published 17:32 IST, October 28th 2020
Biden asserts he will tackle COVID-19, lashes out at Trump for 'surrendering' to pandemic
While Trump told Americans that the upcoming election is a choice between “Trump super-recovery or Biden depression”, Biden attacked the COVID-19 response.
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While US President Donald Trump told Americans that upcoming vember election is a choice between “Trump super-recovery or Biden depression”, Democratic Presidential minee Joe Biden insisted that he will tackle COVID-19 pandemic. While taking his campaign to Republican stronghold state, Georgia just less than two weeks before US elections, Biden flayed Trump’s accusations and said that Republican leer has surrendered to global health crisis.
As both campaigns are narrowing down to its final days and polls are showing Biden to le incumbent, Democratic challenger lashed out on Trump over his COVID-19 response. former US Vice President even reminded voters that US President’s chief of staff Mark Meows conceded on weekend that “we’re t going to control pandemic”. While dressing voters in Warm Springs, Biden said Trump ministration;’s response was a “capitulation” and White House “never really tried” to control surge in COVID-19 cases that has w caused more than 226,000 deaths in United States.
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Inste of tackling pandemic with a plan and acting as a wartime president, Joe Biden said that Donald Trump “shrugged, he swaggered and he surrendered.”
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'Trump super-recovery or Biden depression'
However, Trump has been claiming that US is “rounding turn” on pandemic and has continued to host shoulder-to-shoulder packed campaign rallies with very few people wearing masks. Republican leer has mocked Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for wearing masks too much, attacked media for covering only about pandemic, and referred to health professionals including US top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci as ‘idiots’. In most recent attack, Trump said that voters have to choose between “Trump super-recovery or Biden depression” on vember 3.
“This election is a choice between a Trump super recovery or a Biden depression. That's what you are going to have with raise of taxes, biggest tax increase in our history. It's ridiculous. It's a choice between a Trump boom or a Biden lockdown. Let's lock it all down and by way speaking of lockdowns, let's get your goverr to open it up. Let's get m to open it up,” Trump said.
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17:33 IST, October 28th 2020