Biden, Obama Meet Up To Slam Trump’s Coronavirus Response In New Campaign Video

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden met up with former President Barack Obama in a new campaign video, with the two leaders criticizing President Trump’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

A short clip of the video was tweeted Wednesday by the Biden campaign with the full-length video to be released Thursday.

Obama and Biden met at Obama’s office in Washington, with the two Democrats reflecting on the current administration. Biden criticized Trump for not taking responsibility for the outbreak, slamming him for “his inability to get a sense of what people are going through.”

“He just can’t relate in any way,” Biden says of Trump.

“One of the things that I have always known about you, Joe, it’s the reason why I wanted you to be my vice president and the reason why you were so effective. It all starts with being able to relate,” Obama responds. “If you can sit down with a family and see your own family and the struggles that you’ve gone through or your parents went through or your kids are going through, if you can connect those struggles to somebody else’s struggles, then you’re going to work hard for them. And that’s always what’s motivated you to get into public service.”

Trump said in March that he takes no responsibility at all for his administration’s missteps on COVID-19 testing. Trump has been frequently criticized for downplaying the outbreak, as cases surge in states such as Florida, Texas and Arizona.

On Monday, Trump held a White House press briefing to address the outbreak, his first since March. He claimed the current outbreak “may get worse before it gets better.”

The U.S. has the most COVID-19 cases in the world. As of Tuesday at 11:55 a.m. ET, the U.S has 3,915,780 coronavirus cases and 142,095 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.