{"id":163726,"date":"2020-10-08T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/08\/trump-says-he-wont-participate-in-virtual-presidential-debate-with-biden-live\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:39:19","slug":"trump-says-he-wont-participate-in-virtual-presidential-debate-with-biden-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=163726","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he won&#039;t participate in virtual presidential debate with Biden \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Fox Business \u2018I\u2019m not going to waste my time\u2019Debate scheduled for 15 October in Miami to be held over videolinkHarris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus responseFive key takeaways from the vice-presidential debateTrump calls diagnosis \u2018blessing from God\u2019 amid false treatment claimsSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 our weekly US election newsletter 2.29pm BST In a wide ranging interview with Fox Business, Donald Trump provided an update on his coronavirus infection. The president confirmed he is still taking the strong steroid dexamethasone. It\u2019s widely available in hospitals and doctors have highlighted it can make the patient feel better than they actually are, which could help explain some of the president\u2019s unusually upbeat descriptions of how he is feeling over the past several days. 2.12pm BST The Biden campaign shared a statement with reporters about the upcoming presidential debate. Kate Bedingfield, Biden\u2019s deputy campaign manager and communications director, said: Vice President Biden looks forward to speaking directly to the American people and comparing his plan for bringing the country together and building back better with Donald Trump\u2019s failed leadership on the coronavirus that has thrown the strong economy he inherited into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/oct\/08\/kamala-harris-mike-pence-debate-donald-trump-coronavirus-covid-19-joe-biden-us-election-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Trump says he won&#039;t participate in virtual presidential debate with Biden \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President tells Fox Business \u2018I\u2019m not going to waste my time\u2019Debate scheduled for 15 October in Miami to be held over videolinkHarris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus responseFive key takeaways from the vice-presidential debateTrump calls diagnosis \u2018blessing from God\u2019 amid false treatment claimsSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}