White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Trump was tested for Covid-19 on Air Force One as he traveled to the debate hall in Nashville.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Trump was tested for Covid-19 on Air Force One as he traveled to the debate hall in Nashville, where he will face off against Biden for the second and final time before Election Day.The debate is set to kick off at 9 p.m. ET. It will be moderated by NBC News' Kristen Welker.
Trump and Biden had first participated in a messy, rancorous brawl of a debate in late September. Days after that event, Trump announced that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. It was unclear when he had first been infected or by whom. Trump and the White House have faced persistent questions about when the president had last tested negative before discovering he had contracted the virus.
In an interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie last week, Trump said he wasn't sure if he had been tested on the day of his first debate with Biden. "Possibly I did, possibly I didn't," Trump said. Like in the vice presidential debate between Trump's veep Mike Pence and Biden's running mate Kamala Harris, the president and the Democratic nominee will be separated by sheets of plexiglass on stage Thursday night.
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