Joe Biden calls on governors to mandate masks for the next three months: 'Let's institute a mask mandate, nationwide, starting immediately—and we will save lives.'
Trump fired back at an evening news conference, saying,"We want to have a certain freedom, that's what we’re about."
"Different states are much different, both in terms of the atmosphere itself and also in terms of the corona problem," Trump continued."He does not identify what authority the president has to issue such a mandate or how federal law enforcement could possibly enforce it or why we would be stepping on governors throughout our country, many of whom have done a very good job and they know what is needed.
Biden said he hopes the president has"learned the lesson" now that masks save lives but added it's not about politics. "What real leadership looks like is Joe Biden. To speak up. Sometimes, telling us the stuff that we don't necessarily want to hear, but we need to know," Harris said. Earlier Thursday, inside a makeshift, television-like studio at a hotel in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, Biden and Harris participated in their first joint COVID-19 briefing with health care experts over a video call as deaths from the virus rise in the United States.
Biden said the briefing focused on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on different races and the availability of PPE and testing capacity.
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