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Joe Biden criticises Donald Trump for renewed Fauci attack over Covid – US politics live
Americans ‘tired of your lies about this virus’, Biden said of TrumpTrump had said ‘people are tired of hearing of Fauci and all these idiots’Presidential debate commission adopts rules to mute microphonesPodcast: Biden’s and Trump’s possible paths to powerSign up for Fight to Vote – our weekly US election newsletter 1.28pm BST Donald Trump is currently calling in to Fox & Friends and has asked for attorney general William Barr to act over what the president claims is “major corruption” around the Joe Biden campaign.Asked by the host “Will you appoint a special prosecutor to investigate this?”, Trump said:The attorney general has to act. He’s got to act, and he’s got to act fast. He’s got to appoint somebody, this is major corruption, and this has to be known about before the election, and by the way we’re doing very well, we’re gonna win the election, we’re doing very well. If you look at all of what’s happening and all of the people that come in and don’t come in, you take a look all around the country and with Texas early voting. Those are our votes. I mean I just got a report we’re doing great in Texas, but we’re doing great all over, but forget that, this has to be done early. So the attorney general has to act.Donald Trump: "Joe lies. And he lies a lot. And he'll say things that are crazy. And he'll think people are supposed to believe him. And they take ads and they put ads in on things that never happened." 1.15pm BST One of the Senate races to watch in two weeks time is in Georgia, where incumbent Republican David Perdue is facing a challenge from Jon Ossoff.Perdue made headlines last week when the Kamala Harris campaign team described his remarks as “incredibly racist” when he deliberately mocked the vice president nominee’s first name at an election rally. Salon is reporting that video footage from 2014 of another incident where Perdue is accused of, at the very least, being racially insensitive has emerged.Sen. David Perdue is a man without vision or integrity. Instead of leading and inspiring, he stoops to mocking the heritage of his political opponents.Georgia is finished with David Perdue.Help: https://t.co/zi5WxgiwPZ pic.twitter.com/APsNtHkSBV Continue reading...
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