WILMINGTON, Del./DORAL, Fla.: President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will return to the campaign on Friday with a tour of three battleground states, a day after two contenders collided from afar during a televised town hall.
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The split-screen event, which replaced a presidential debate that was canceled in the wake of Trump's coronovirus diagnosis, also highlighted sharp contrast between the two candidates at least three weeks into the campaign ahead of the November three election.
A combative Trump, along with moderator Samantha Guthrie on NBC, refused to condemn the bizarre, bizarre conspiracy theory QAnon, claimed that the 2020 election was rife with fraud and questioned whether the masks would counter the proliferation of COVID-19 Can help Biden provided policy-heavy answers and focused his attacks on dealing with Trump's epidemic, which killed 216,000 Americans and affected the economy.
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According to polls, Biden has led the competition for months, and it was unclear whether Trump's aggressive posture would succeed in bringing about a change in the stable race despite the tornado of news.
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University of Florida at U.S. According to an Election Project tracker, more than 18 million Americans have already cast ballots in 2016, which remains the same.
Louisiana will begin voting early on Friday, with record turnout in competing states Georgia, Texas and North Carolina this week.
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Trump will travel to two states, Florida and Georgia, which are seen as likely to win, while Biden will visit two cities in Michigan, which is another battleground.
A second presidential debate was scheduled for Thursday, but Trump opted out of the event after organizers went virtual to reduce the risk of infection.
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Trump, who underwent treatment for several days in a military hospital after contracting the virus two weeks ago, has since begun mass campaign rallies.
During his town hall on NBC in front of voters in Miami, Trump refused to say when he tested negative for the virus before announcing his diagnosis, a question that White House physicians also answered Has refused.
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While he condemned white supremacists for two weeks after failing to do so forcefully in the first presidential debate, he would not do so about QAnon, a fringe movement whose followers believe Democrats are part of a global pedophile ring .
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"I know they are against pedophilia, they fight it very hard," Trump said, before claiming that he knew nothing about the conspiracy theory when pressed by Guthrie.
He also questioned whether masks are effective at preventing the spread of coronovirus, opposing consensus among public health experts, including his own administration.
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In Philadelphia, Biden outlined his plans to combat the epidemic and revive the economy by funding local, state governments and dramatically hiking on corporations and the wealthy.
When asked if they support the addition of justices to the Supreme Court, an idea known as "court-packing" as a reaction to the hardball tactics of some Democrat Republicans.
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"It depends on how it changes," he said of the ongoing confirmation hearing for Trump's latest nominee Amy Connie Barrett.
But the coronovirus dominated the proceedings, just as it had in the last seven months of the campaign.
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Trump, who has mitigated the crisis, said again on Thursday that the country has "rounded the corner" despite an increase in cases in several states. He also defended his own personal approach to the virus, including hosting a Rose Garden event last month, after which many attendees, including himself, tested positive.
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Biden's campaign said on Thursday that three people who had recently traveled with him, Senator Kamala Harris, had tested positive. The campaign stated that none of the candidates had close contact with infected individuals, but Harris canceled them in personal incidents on Sunday as a precaution.
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