PLAYING S FTBALL WITH JOE
Easy questions in CNN town hall
Joe Biden got a healthy dose of softballs from Democrats on CNN Thursday night as President Trump told supporters in Wisconsin that he’s the one to cure to their economic woes.
Biden faced uncritical questions from nearly all Democratic voters at a 75-minute CNN “drive-in” town hall at a parking lot in battleground Pennsylvania.
“I plan to unite the nation. I’m running as a Democrat but I’m going to be everyone’s president,” Biden said. “I’m not going to be a Democratic president. I’m going to be America’s president.”
The warm reception for the former vice president appeared to come from voters who have already made up their minds about him — one woman lamenting that she saw a “sea of Trump flags and yard signs” on her street.
Biden was asked questions such as how he would keep American workplaces safe during the pandemic, whether he had benefited from white privilege, and how he would bring the nation together, with little follow-up from host Anderson Cooper.
“It is close to criminal,” Biden said. “The idea that you are not going to tell people what you have been told that this virus is incredibly contagious — seven times more contagious than the flu — you breathe the air and you get it sucked into your lungs. What has he done?”
And in his “he-said what??!!” head-scratcher jour, Biden added, “If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. the people — I’m not making this up. Just look at the data. Look at the data.”
Biden also claimed to be the man who could unite the now-divided country.
Trump, meanwhile, at an airport hanger in Mosinee, Wis., hailed the American economy as the “greatest in history” before the pandemic hit — pitching himself to attendees as the candidate who would revive jobs and bring financial security.
“We have to ensure the future belongs to America — not to China, not to other very terrible forces out there,” Trump told the crowd. “Because if we win, very simply, America wins.”
The president said he’ll continue to tackle the “worst ever” trade deals between the United States and foreign countries like China and Canada, and continue to focus on returning manufacturing jobs to the states.
“Canada is one of the toughest negotiators, and they treated your state very unfairly until I came along,” the president said.
“Biden would absolutely eradicate your state’s economy.”
Trump also continued to tout law and order, warning there would be “tremendous pressure” on the Second Amendment right to bear guns under a Biden presidency.
H also said that US-flag burners should serve a year in prison.
“You got law and order on one side and chaos on the other,” the president said.