Biden attacks Trump on COVID-19, Florida as president heads to state
Source: The Hill
Former Vice President Joe Biden tore into President Trump as he prepared to visit a coronavirus-stricken Florida on Friday, blaming the president’s response to the pandemic for a sharp rise in cases and virus-related hospitalizations in the country’s largest battleground state.
“With over 232,000 cases in the state and over 4,000 deaths in Florida, it is clear that Trump’s response — ignore, blame others, and distract — has come at the expense of Florida families,” the former vice president said in a statement issued as Trump departed on a scheduled trip to Doral, just outside of Miami.
Trump is set to receive a briefing at the U.S. Southern Command in Doral on Friday before holding a roundtable discussion with members of South Florida’s Venezuelan community in the afternoon.
In his statement, however, Biden said that Trump’s visit to Florida would amount to little more than a “photo-op and a distraction from his failures,” both in regard to his administration’s coronavirus response and his posture toward the government of Venezuelan Preside
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