Trump, Biden to hold TV town halls as debate gets cancelled

US President Donald Trump and his rival in upcoming US Election 2020, Democratic Presidential minee Joe Biden will feature in ir own respective televised town hall on October 15 (local time). Instead of both contenders meeting for second presidential debate on evening of October 15, y will be simultaneously, but separately talking to Americans in TV studios. While Trump will speak from NBC studio, Biden will be at ABC. 

As per reports, NBC has said that Donald Trump will be in Miami while Joe Biden has already booked his appearance from Philadelphia. scheduled debate was also designed as a town hall, meaning, both candidates for vember elections would have fielded questions from voters. But debate was upended after US President’s COVID-19 diagsis. Debate Commission reportedly wanted to switch format to a virtual appearance as a precautionary measure but Trump, who had anunced testing positive for disease just days after first debate, refused. This led to cancellation of event. 

NBC said on October 14 that it had received a statement from clinical director at National Institutes of Health and lead infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci that y had "a high degree of confidence" that US President is "t shedding infectious virus" anymore. Both Trump and NBC host will be socially distanced at an outdoor setting and audience will be wearing facemasks. Since Trump’s illness, Biden has been repeatedly testing for COVID-19 and has reported being negative. 

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Trump downplays COVID-19 severity

Meanwhile, following his COVID-19 diagsis, Trump resumed his reelection campaign just two weeks after testing positive for vel coronavirus and told his supporters in Sanford, near Orlando that he is “immune” to COVID-19. US President Donald Trump is being widely criticised for downplaying severity of disease. In a bid to secure his presidency for second term in US Elections, Trump mocked disease in front of a packed crowd and said, “I feel so powerful, I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in re, I'll kiss everyone in that audience.”

Trump said, "I'll kiss guys and beautiful women and --everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss."

Republican President is competing with Democratic rival Joe Biden to acquire US presidency in vember. Trump tested positive for COVID-19 just days after he mocked Biden for wearing facemasks. n, he got hospitalised at Walter Reed Medical Centre and made a grand return to White House in four days after treatment that included oxygen supplement and antibody cocktail cure for COVID-19. However, in his public addresses, Trump has t only said that he is 'immune' but also that he learnt 'a lot about COVID-19' by going to "real school". 

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