{"id":213277,"date":"2020-04-04T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/biden-campaign-says-former-vp-backs-trump-move-to-limit-travel-from-china.html"},"modified":"2020-04-04T05:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T05:20:02","slug":"biden-campaign-says-former-vp-backs-trump-move-to-limit-travel-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/biden-campaign-says-former-vp-backs-trump-move-to-limit-travel-from-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign says former VP backs Trump move to limit travel from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/95689_Trump-Biden_AP.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Graham calls on China to close all wet markets amid coronavirus outbreak\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Sen. Graham calls on China to close all wet markets amid coronavirus outbreak<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reacts to rising COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Former Vice President Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0now backs <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">President Trump<\/a>\u2019s restrictions on travel from <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">China<\/a> amid the global <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic, his campaign said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield told <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">CNN<\/a> Friday that the former vice president \u201csupports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials and backed by a full strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience supported this ban, therefore he did too,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden has repeatedly criticized President Trump and his coronavirus response, most recently Thursday. \u201cDonald Trump ignored the warnings. He failed to act,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale blasted the Democratic 2020 presidential primary front-runner on Twitter over the apparent travel ban reversal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a long time lag, even for Sleepy Joe,\u201d he wrote, accusing Biden of bashing the travel restrictions as \u201cxenophobia\u201d and \u201cfear-mongering\u201d in the roughly two months since they were implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not leadership\u201d Parscale continued. \u201cThat\u2019s bad judgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump announced the restrictions on travelers entering the U.S. from China on Jan. 31. The next day, Biden ripped the president on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to lead the way with science \u2013 not Donald Trump\u2019s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield denied that the tweet\u2019s inclusion of the word \u201cxenopohobia\u201d had anything to do with the travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It] was about Trump\u2019s long record of scapegoating others a time when the virus was emerging from China,\u201d she told CNN.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">AFTER ATTACKING TRUMP&#8217;S CORONAVIRUS-RELATED CHINA TRAVEL BAN AS XENOPHOBIC, DEMS AND MEDIA HAVE CHANGED TUNE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The outbreak first emerged in China\u2019s city of Wuhan and the virus rapidly spread \u2013 eventually becoming a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>China has enacted restrictions of its own as officials there say the crisis there is winding down. Among them was limiting the <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">New England Patriots\u2019 private jet<\/a> to just three hours on the ground when it flew there this week for an emergency shipment of over a million N95 masks. The crew was not allowed to get off the plane.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has said that he <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">could not confirm<\/a> the veracity of the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths being reported by the government in China, as he urged Americans to adhere to guidelines on social distancing and other health precautions as the outbreak continues here.<\/p>\n<p>There were at least\u00a01,088,878 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide Friday night, with\u00a0270,473 of them in the United States. China reported 82,511 cases. At least\u00a058,382 people have died from the illness across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News\u2019 Gregg Re contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/QIgZNnQbwMo\/biden-campaign-says-ex-vp-backs-trump-move-limit-travel-china<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Sen. Graham calls on China to close all wet markets amid coronavirus outbreak South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reacts to rising COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and worldwide. Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.\u00a0Sign up here. 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