Debate planners add precautions for the Kamala Harris-Mike Pence matchup as White House staff and Republican officials test positive.
When President Trump said he had tested positive for the coronavirus, he became ground zero for the most high-profile contact-tracing effort of the pandemic.
The commission also decided to have its medical advisors talk with the campaigns’ physicians to make sure the candidates are tested before the debate, and to remove any person who takes off their face mask in the debate hall. These two changes were driven by uncertainty about when Trump was tested before the first presidential debate in Cleveland last week and his family members taking off their masks once they took their seats in the debate hall.
The Trump campaign and Pence representatives did not respond to requests for comment. But Katie Miller, a spokeswoman for Pence, told Politico, “If Sen. Harris wants to use a fortress around herself, have at it.” A Harris spokeswoman responded by referring to Pence’s role as the leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.Katie Miller mocks our wanting a plexiglass barrier on the debate stage, when her own boss is supposedly in charge of the COVID-19 task force and should be advocating for this too,” Harris spokeswoman Sabrina Singh tweeted.where he received experimental drugs. His doctors said they won’t know for a week if he is fully recovered.
, when the president refused to follow the rules his campaign had agreed to and repeatedly spoke over Biden and moderator Chris Wallace.
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