Republican presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday blatantly violated President Donald Trump's suggestion that a vaccine against the coronavirus could be available in just weeks, warning Americans to trust the president's word. Cannot do it
"The idea that a vaccine is being
developed tomorrow and that everything will be fine tomorrow is not just
rational, it's not reasonable," Biden said during a CNN town hall in
Mosaic, Pennsylvania.
Trump reiterated on Wednesday that a virus
vaccine could be ready for distribution before the November 3 election.
Most health professionals, including
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
say the vaccine will not be widely available until mid-2021.
Trump has accused Biden of spreading
"anti-vaccine rhetoric"; while Biden has insisted, he will listen to
scientists rather than the president on vaccine safety.
It was the first town hall-style broadcast
since Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for president last month, giving
viewers a rare opportunity to see answers to questions he had successfully won
in November. Expected
The cable network called the event a
"drive in town hall": participants parked their cars outside a modest
league baseball stadium to make sure they were safely away from each other.
Biden spent most of the evening fighting
the epidemic, in which the president himself admitted to journalist Bob
Woodward that he had deliberately reduced the death toll.
"He knew it. He knew it and did
nothing," Biden said. "It's close to the culprit."
Trump later said he was trying to avoid
unnecessary panic.
Biden said he did not have the authority
to enforce the national mask mandate, recalling his comments on Wednesday in
which he advised the president to wear a mask legally during a national
emergency. It may be necessary, but he criticized Trump for questioning the
usefulness of the niqab and called on every governor to do the same.
Biden also took advantage of the sequence
of events near Stratton’s birthplace, comparing his upbringing in a
working-class city to Trump's "Park Avenue." Let's talk
"Boys like me were the first in my
family to go to college ... we're so good," he said. "And guys like
Trump, who inherited everything and inherited everything from them, are the
people I always have a problem with - not the ones who are cutting their
necks."
He said he would accept the results of the
November election, a position that Trump has refused to accept amid his
baseless claims that the ballot is widely used due to epidemics. But it will
lead to deception.
Electoral experts say voter fraud is rare
in the United States, where postal voting is a long-standing process in many
states.
For most of the summer, Biden hosted the
most virtual events from his home in Delaware, criticizing Trump for being
"invisible." But Biden took advantage of the national referendum
against Trump, as epidemics badly affected Trump's position among voters.
In recent weeks, Biden has campaigned
again in other states, but he has been wary of participants other than
reporters and invites guests to the coronavirus.
Trump, who has returned to hold
large-scale rallies, joined ABC Town Hall earlier this week with undivided
voters who defended his administration's response to the outbreak. What was?
Covid-19 has killed more than 195,000
people in the United States, the most in any country.
Both Biden and Trump will travel to
Minnesota on Friday, the first day of the preliminary vote.
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