By Martin Belam
Sanders and Biden campaign teams reflect on last night’s debate performance, as state and federal coronavirus responses dominates agenda
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As I mentioned at the outset this morning, it is quite hard to separate out any politics from the coronavirus news today. Here are some of the latest coronavirus developments in the US that you’ll want to be across this morning.
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As Domenico Montanaro observed for NPR, with long careers up on Capitol Hill behind them, Biden and Sanders could find themselves quite bogged down in arguments about who voted for what and when.
Politifact have done a deep dive into the things that Biden said about Sanders’ voting record during the 2008 financial crisis – particularly the claim that Sanders voted against a bail-out for the auto industry, costing jobs among what would be considered some heartland Democrat voters. They found that neither man was telling the whole story.
Source: Biden and Sanders mull debate reaction as coronavirus response intensifies – live updates
Category: US news, World news, US politics, US elections 2020, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders
