Published 17:56 IST, July 7th 2020
Donald Trump, Joe Biden campaigns use COVID-19 to shape course of presidential election
The campaigns of Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the upcoming presidential elections have started to use coronavirus pandemic to shape results
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campaigns of US President Donald Trump and Democratic minee Joe Biden for upcoming presidential elections have started to use coronavirus pandemic to shape results. Trump has been facing criticism for his handling of coronavirus outbreak in United States which has claimed over 130,000 lives so far.
Republican campaigners are w trying to re-shape ir leer’s COVID-19 response by projecting ecomic recovery and blaming China for health disaster. Washington Post quoted a former ministration official saying White House officials believe that people will learn to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day and will move on from rising death toll.
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According to media reports, some Republican Senators and close aides of US President have urged Trump to focus on ministration’s success on raising testing capacity to 500,000 a day and preventing ventilator short. Trump has been frequently highlighting COVID-19 testing and blaming China of global outbreak.
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'Trump has plan'
However, Biden has sharpened his attack against Trump over coronavirus response as US has reported almost 3 million COVID-19 cases, over one-fourth of cases worldwide. Biden campaign visor Ariana Berengaut told Post that Democratic leer has been laser-focused on rising risk to American people presented by this pandemic. plan is to pitch Biden’s leership against Trump’s as latter has absolutely plan for future.
Biden has been assertive about need for a leership that can unite people and bring m toger, saying incumbent president has thing to offer. He has been aggressive on social media, accusing Trump of doubling down on his efforts to rip health insurance and protections away from millions.
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(With inputs from ANI)
17:56 IST, July 7th 2020