{"id":88754,"date":"2020-09-08T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=88754"},"modified":"2020-09-08T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:00:11","slug":"auto-draft-192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/09\/08\/auto-draft-192\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Biden Clash Over COVID-19 Vaccine Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump\u202fand former Vice President Joe Biden traded verbal attacks about COVID-19 vaccines in their respective Labor Day remarks. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The president called for the\u202fDemocratic Party nominees, Biden and\u202frunning mate U.S. Senator from California\u00a0Kamala Harris,\u202fto “immediately\u202fapologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric.”\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden told reporters in Pennsylvania on Monday that he\u202fwould like to see a vaccine tomorrow, even if it cost him the election. But “if we do have a really good vaccine, people are going to be reluctant to take it” because the president\u2019s repeated misstatements and falsehoods\u202fwith respect to the virus are “undermining public confidence.”\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Nothing he has told us so far has been true,”\u202fBiden later said during a virtual campaign event with the AFL-CIO, an umbrella federation for U.S. labor unions. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump, holding his first news conference on the North Portico of the White House, said that contrary to \u201cpolitical lies,\u201d any vaccine approved for mass inoculation by the federal government will be \u201cvery safe and very effective.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Republican and Democratic party nominees made their remarks as the presidential campaign\u202fturned to the homestretch on the annual Labor Day holiday \u2013 a time when COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is still killing about 1,000 Americans every day, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden went Monday to the key political battleground state of Pennsylvania in the eastern U.S. for the AFL-CIO event, appearing with the organization\u2019s president, Richard Trumka. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event with local union members in the backyard of a home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sept. 7, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“He’s downright un-American,” Biden said of Trump, accusing the president of hesitating to act to minimize the public health and economic ramifications of the pandemic because it would have lowered stock market prices, hurting the president’s corporate interests and those of his friends. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“He lives by a code of greed, lies and selfishness,” added Biden on the video link with the labor boss. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump, in contrast, hailed his administration\u2019s performance amid the pandemic, predicting a swift, \u201cSuper-V\u201d recovery for the U.S. economy and predicting that if Biden, whom he called \u201ca stupid person,\u201d wins the election, \u201cChina will own this country.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has portrayed himself as standing up to China on trade issues and criticizing that country for allowing the coronavirus to spread globally, wrecking America\u2019s economic recovery. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. jobless rate dipped to 8.4% in August, but economic experts say it\u202fcould take months for a more robust recovery to take hold.\u202fOnly about half the 22 million jobs that were lost in the pandemic have been recovered, with many\u202femployers paring their payrolls even as they have reopened their businesses.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the North Portico of the White House, Sept. 7, 2020, in Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Biden is collecting endorsements from\u202fthree\u202forganized labor groups:\u202fThe\u202fLaborers’ International Union of North America, the International Union of Elevator Constructors and the National Federation of Federal Employees.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Collectively, the three unions represent hundreds of thousands of workers nationwide that the Biden campaign hopes to mobilize for support.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has emphasized his endorsement from\u00a0unions representing police officers, stressing a \u201claw and order\u201d message amid peaceful urban demonstrations and some violence at protests in response to the deaths of Blacks by police in numerous cities. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump is also fighting to maintain support among veterans and those serving in the U.S. military after a magazine, citing four unnamed people, reported that he had referred to Marines buried in an American cemetery near Paris as “losers” and “suckers” and declined to visit their graves during a 2018 trip to France. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly an animal would say that,\u201d Trump replied when asked about The Atlantic\u2019s article during Monday\u2019s news conference. He termed the article a \u201cphony story\u201d that others have refuted. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Several news organizations, including Fox News, which is generally sympathetic to Trump, have confirmed elements of the story, attributed to their own sources, which they have not named. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden, earlier Monday, met with three union workers who had served in the U.S. military at a home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think most of those guys and women are suckers?\u201d Biden asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens during a tour of the IBEW 494 training facility in Milwaukee, Sept. 7, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, Harris and Vice President Mike Pence both visited the highly contested battleground state of Wisconsin in the Midwest on Monday. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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FILE – Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campaign event on the grounds of Kuharchik Construction, Inc., in Exeter, Pa., Sept. 1, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harris, in her first solo, in-person\u202fcampaign appearance as part of Biden\u2019s ticket,\u202fmet with unionized electrical workers and Black business owners in Milwaukee. She also met with the family and legal team of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was shot and paralyzed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in front of three of his children last month. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Pence, Trump\u2019s second in command,\u202ftoured an energy facility in the city of\u202fLa Crosse.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two traditionally Democratic states that Trump won in 2016 to\u202fhelp him\u202fcapture a four-year White House\u202fterm,\u202fare again expected to be pivotal states this November. Polls show Biden\u202fnarrowly\u202fahead\u202fin both states.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden, who has a thin lead in some other battleground states, is maintaining his advantage over Trump in national polls by\u202fabout 7 percentage points. \u00a0<\/p>\n

While the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed about 190,000 people in the country, has sharply curtailed\u202fhuge political rallies that are a mainstay of typical U.S. presidential campaigns, both Trump and Biden are planning\u202fnumerous trips\u202fin the coming weeks\u202fto\u202fpolitically important states\u202fin front of more modest crowds. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump plans to visit North Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania later in the week.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden plans to return to Pennsylvania on Friday, when both he and Trump plan to commemorate\u202fthe 19th\u202fanniversary of the 2001 al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the U.S. in\u202fShanksville, where a jetliner crashed into a field as passengers tried to commandeer the plane from the hijackers.\u202f<\/p>\n

Ken Bredemeier contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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