Posted on 09/04/2020 12:41:53 PM PDT by RandFan
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would be open to meeting with President Trump next week when they’re both in Pennsylvania.
“I didn't know he was going until after I announced I was going. Of course, I'd be happy to meet with the president,” Biden told reporters in Delaware Friday, according to a pool report of his remarks.
“Look, the answer is yes. He's still the president of the United States.”
Biden and Trump are both slated to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Shanksville, where one of the hijacked planes crashed nearly 19 years ago.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Thursday that she has “no details for that upcoming event,” just that “we are intending to be in Shanksville as well.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding whether the president would consider meeting with Biden.
A potential meeting would come in the midst of a brutal sprint to Election Day, with both Biden and Trump skewering each other on a slate of policies.
The former vice president has accused Trump of working to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election by encouraging voters to mail in their ballots and then to show up in-person at the polls, and of “legitimiz[ing] a dark side of human nature” with his remarks on race. He’s also hammered the White House’s response to the coronavirus, which he’s said has been bungled.
For his part, Trump has excoriated Biden over what he says are ties to socialists and forecasted that bouts of violence amid protests across the country over systemic racism would be exacerbated and seep into the suburbs if Biden wins this November. He’s also accused Biden of being on drugs before primary debates and has knocked him over his mental acuity.
Yeah let me get this straight, Biden said today that Trump is deplorable and has no soul but he wants to meet with Trump next week..SUREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for what reason, to poison his coffee
Why? So he can run on Trump’s ideas because he doesn’t have any of his own?
Smart move on Biden’s part. It erases the whole stuck in the basement idea.
It’s a bad idea. Joe just wants to looks relevant
This is the infamous even where Hillary high-tailed it out of there early and was thrown into the van (like a sack of potatoes) as she started to collapse.
If I was Trump, I would stipulate that Biden would need to pass drug test before meeting with him.
meet for what? Trump doesn’t need Biden’s help with anything, Trump’s doing fine. Biden needs help.
Where does he want to meet? Behind the gym?
Something only someone who knows (been told by his puppet masters) that he’s deeply behind and needs to pretend he’s on the same level as the opponent.
Good idea, Trump should agree as long as the meeting is public and both must take unscripted questions from the public for 30 minutes.
Without that, what the heck is the point of two candidates meeting somewhere -- especially when one of them has no role in government at all right now?
hmm....Shanksville. Rural Somerset County. I’m sure Trump can turn out a BIG MAGA crowd to meet Joe.
Good. Bring the SOB to PA where we can ask him about stopping fraccing on his first day in office. Was he lying then or lying now?
Trump should respond by inviting Zombie Joe to debate him in PA
next week in PA. You won’t hear a response from Joe or his campaign
after Trump throws Down that Twitter Challenge.
Joe wants to play follow the leader.
So Biden thinks his crowded event can accomodate POTUS
Suuuurrrre
Bidens people would LOVE to share the press coverage
Unless biden apologizes for the ‘ mighty fine people” lie and smacks down the fake news about Trump dissing veterans...NO WAY
It should! Kanye, the Libertarian and the Green party candidates should be invited, too!
Weren’t the reporters and Democrats saying that Trump shouldn’t be campaigning a few weeks ago?
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