Biden Announces Negative COVID Test Ahead Of Debate. Trump Stays Mum. | Talking Points Memo

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced on Thursday morning that he has tested negative for COVID-19 ahead of his final debate with President Donald Trump before the Nov. 3 election. 


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Trump campaign: ‘We have too much testing. Too many tests!’

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Hope they’re stocked up on thorazine darts for Jabber the Nutt…

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If the CPD allows Trump onto the premises without proof of a negative PCR test within the last 24 hours, it needs to be decommissioned.

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Regardless of whether he’s tested he’s still diseased. He’s always been diseased.

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Does anyone really believe that the orange man-toddler is permitting someone to stuff a six inch cotton swap up his nose and rummage it around in his upper sinuses? On a daily basis?

He’s not getting tested. He has not been getting tested. His “doctors’” double-speak on “has not tested positive” does not mean he tested negative.

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Yeah, this is BS. No one should take that jackass’ word for anything. I wouldn’t put it past him or his aides to try to forge a negative test result.

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The Trump team may just decide not to give an answer to the CPD or the public because …

  1. It’s a way to thumb their nose at the CPD.
  2. It shows they don’t have to follow the rules (very popular with The Base).
  3. Big psyche out of Joe Biden will cause him to make mistakes in the debate.
  4. It’s not one of the questions he frankly wants to answer.
  5. They’re a bunch of dicks.
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Unless Trumpy provides verifiable proof that he is negative for the virus, the debate should be cancelled. Period, end of story. No proof, no debate.

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Neil Casler has offered what sounds to me like the most plausible reason why Trump refuses to get tested (and uses the less reliable saliva test when he does). It’s because he blew out his septum years ago from snorting Adderall and the nasal swabs are painful. Sounds like Trumpian behavior all around to me.

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Question: Why does no one hold him–or any Republican–to the rules? Ever?

The Judiciary Committee is supposed to have a full team, with at least two members of the minority party, to hold a vote on the SCOTUS nominee. They didn’t begin to have that, but anyway…

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Tio Loco believes testing is how he got 'rona in the first place. So he will waddle in without one. Meanwhile, back at reality, scientists charge him and Republicans with a couple hundred thousand needless deaths.

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“I’m immune, they say. They say if you’ve had it, you are immune,” Trump insisted on Monday.

“They” also say that you are the most dishonest person who has ever been in any elected office at all, but here we are.
I imagine that there is a fairly decent possibility that he is still contagious, and has been holding meetings and rallies in full knowledge of that fact.

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For REAL. How is this even something negotiable?

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The Dems follow the rules the other side does not. This needs to change asap.

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Put Trump in a glass booth. Like they did with Eichmann for his trial. Let him get used to it.

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Trump’s EEG test came back no brain activity.

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I’d be in favor of a dunking booth. Every lie or interruption, splash.

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Walk Away Joe.
Put out a very full statement that Chump has not abided by any rules up to this point, and infected a very large number of people and exposed even more leading up to the last debate. He refuses to answer if he was tested before that debate, and refused to answer if he knew he was infected and endangered everyone there.

Now, he has come back begging for one more chance to debate, has stated publicly he doesn’t know if he is going to follow tonight’s debate rules, and as of 1:30 PM on the date of…will not provide proof that he is no longer contagious or spreading virus. He has claimed he is now immune, but that has no bearing on whether or not he is healthy, suffering from after-affect symptoms, or is incapable of giving COVID to others.

Folks, I can’t subject my team, the debate staff and facility, or my family to more of this. It isn’t just Chump, what about all the other people on his staff who have been fighting off the disease from a large group of infected people in his entourage? Are they all being tested? Being honest about it? They absolutely trampled and ignored all safety protocols before. Even if Chump isn’t shedding virus, we have no idea what this group of people are really doing. The American People know enough about who I am, and who he is. We will be holding mass online events in the next 11 days where Senator Harris and I will be available for questions on policies and our plans for moving ahead, which would never get a chance in another shouting match with Hair Furor.

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“Amid his recovery from COVID-19, Trump has insisted he is “immune” to coronavirus, even though scientific evidence has not supported the validity of such a claim.”

Look, we all know he’s an idiot and that he only thinks about himself. But that doesn’t mean we should follow him in his idiocy. The issue here is not whether he’s “immune”—whatever exactly that is supposed to mean. It’s whether he’s contagious. Please let’s not engage in Trumpian disordered thinking here and confuse the two.

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