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Biden Continues Campaign While Trump Remains Hospitalized
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October 3, 2020
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1:14Now PlayingJoe Biden and Donald Trump face the challenge of finding the right tone for their campaigns as the president remains hospitalized with Covid-19 a month before the Nov. 3 election.
Because of Trump’s illness, each candidate now enters the final stretch of the campaign having to adjust messages that had become rote. For Biden, that means treading more carefully in assailing his ailing opponent’s response to a pandemic that cost 200,000 lives and millions of jobs. For Trump, that translates into acknowledging the peril of a virus he has repeatedly claimed would eventually disappear.
Navigating the shifted landscape became even harder for Trump after his campaign manager, Bill Stepien, tested positive for the virus on Friday. Stepien, who is experiencing mild symptoms, is expected to continue working from home, but it’s another blow for a campaign that was already struggling to shift the conversation away from Covid.
On Friday, it was the former vice president who made the first move. After testing negative for coronavirus early Friday, he continued with a planned stop in Michigan while Trump was resting at the White House. That left voters with the split-screen image Friday afternoon of Trump heading to a hospital at the very moment Biden was selling his economic plan to union workers in a crucial battleground state.
Yet Biden avoided seeming callous by bookending his remarks with well-wishes and prayers for Trump and his wife, Melania, who is also infected, before pivoting into his standard pleas for adherence to scientists’ guidelines for lessening the pandemic’s spread.
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