Biden held a press conference today. He gave a good speech about the pandemic and took a bunch of questions. He sounded good.
Trump and his campaign, meanwhile, seem to have decided they can win by contrasting their very stable genius with Biden and saying Biden has dementia.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. unloaded a barrage of criticism on President Trump on Tuesday over his response to Covid-19, his refusal to wear a mask, his handling of intelligence on Russians targeting American troops and even his cognitive capability during a rare news conference where Mr. Biden repeatedly drew distinctions with his November opponent.
In a speech in Wilmington, Del., Mr. Biden said that “we need a president,” not a “cheerleader,” as he laced into Mr. Trump’s approach to the virus. “Mr. President, this is not about you,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s about the health and well-being of the American public.”
He said Americans had not made sacrifices so that the president “could ignore the science and turn responsible steps like wearing masks into a political statement.”
Before the speech, the Biden campaign released an updated plan for fighting the coronavirus, given “the current circumstances we face as a result of President Trump’s persistent failures.”
The plan said that “minutes after he is declared the winner of the election,” Mr. Biden would call Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, and ask him to work for Mr. Biden just as he has worked for past presidents.
“Dr. Fauci will have full access to the Oval Office and an uncensored platform to speak directly to the American people — whether delivering good news or bad,” the plan said.
The plan addresses issues like improving testing and tracing, supplying personal protective equipment, developing a vaccine and reopening the economy. In his speech, Mr. Biden encouraged the president “to adopt this plan in its entirety.”
Mr. Biden, the former vice president, has made only sporadic in-person appearances since the pandemic upended Americans’ daily routines, and his campaign is refraining from holding rallies with large crowds that are typically a staple of the campaign trail.
He has repeatedly criticized Mr. Trump over his response to the crisis, and this month, he laid out an eight-part plan for reopening the economy.
As of Tuesday, more than 126,000 people have died of the virus in the United States alone and more than 2.6 million people nationwide have been infected.
“Statewide lockdowns that so many Americans lived under for months were intended to buy us time to get our act together,” Mr. Biden said in his remarks. “Instead of using that time to prepare ourselves, Donald Trump squandered it.”
Uhm:
Also not normal:
This man has no room to criticize anyone for misspeaking:
The chutzpah is overwhelming.