NEW: Biden statement *slamming* Trump, Meadows and Pence for coronavirus statements and response this weekend to latest outbreak at the WH.
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BIDEN: "White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stunningly admitted this morning that the administration has given up on even trying to control this pandemic, that they've given up on their basic duty to protect the American people. This wasn't a slip by Meadows ..."
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BIDEN MORE:
"... [Meadow's statement] was a candid acknowledgement of what President Trump's strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away. It hasn't, and it won't."
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Even for this time of divide, Biden and Trump are remarkably different people and politicians.
But let me first start with the lesser-known fact, what they have in common.
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Biden and Trump both:
- Were born in the 1940s, kids in the years rt after WWII.
- Went to private school for HS. (Biden got an on-campus job to help pay)
- Were of age but did not serve in Vietnam. (Biden got student deferrals, Trump a medical deferral for a "bone spur")
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- LOWER PRICETAG possibly: GOP sources tell me it has a lower price tag, now $300 billion, b/c they added offsets. ($600 billion w/ $300 billion in offsets.)
- But need to see if this is real $.
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SENATE GOP COVID PLAN.
As we've expected:
- Would increase unemployment benefits $300/wk per person thru end of year.
- And add new round of PPP for small businesses. Funding for about two months of expenses. For businesses with 300 or fewer workers.
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SENATE GOP COVID PLAN. I'm also told:
- Postal service: $10 billion
- Child care: $10 billion
- A short-term, maybe two-year tax credit for those who give to private or religious schools for scholarships (Ted Cruz plan)
- Testing, tracing money.
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BIDEN: Rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting ... it's lawlessness plain and simple. And those who do it, should be prosecuted.
Violence will not bring change, it will only bring destruction. It must end.
...We have a president who fans the flames.
BIDEN: Is flipping Trump's narrative on him.
"Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America (if Trump wins)?"
Argues *Trump's* election would make the country less safe.
BIDEN ADDRESSING TRUMP'S WORDS STRAIGHT ON: You know me, you know my story, my family, ask yourself, 'Do I look like a radical socialist with a softs pot for rioters?'
"Really??"
"The truth is Donald Trump failed to protect America, so now he is trying to scare America."