Trump on Coronavirus ABC News Script

10/14 GMA [MARY BRUCE]

NAT/shots of Trump throwing out masks

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OVERNIGHT, PRESIDENT THROWING CAUTION TO THE WIND AT ANOTHER PACKED RALLY

 … TOSSING OUT MASKS, THOUGH FEW WORE THEM… AND TAKING A POLL OF WHO’S HAD THE VIRUS.

TRUMP PA SOT:

 Who’s had it? Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of people. You are the people I want to say hello to because you are right now immune.”

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THE PRESIDENT SPREADING MISINFORMATION. EXPERTS LIKE DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, SAY THE SCIENCE ON IMMUNITY IS FAR FROM CERTAIN. 

SOT FAUCI:

If he means he’s been infected and having been infected and recovered that he will not get it again that’s true for a limited period of time, what we do not know is how long that protection lasts.

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20 DAYS TO GO, AND DOWN IN THE POLLS… TRUMP IS MAKING AN ALL OUT PUSH. HITTING SIX STATES THIS WEEK ALONE. 

BUT FAUCI SAYS HE’S SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE

(GFX) SAYING “BECAUSE HE IS SUCH A VISIBLE FIGURE, IT AMPLIFIES SOME OF THAT MISUNDERSTANDING THAT PEOPLE HAVE THAT IT’S A BENIGN DISEASE.”

CAMPAIGNING IN THE CRITICAL STATE OF FLORIDA, JOE BIDEN CALLED THE PRESIDENT’S BEHAVIOR “RECKLESS” AND “UNCONSCIONABLE” SAYING THE PRESIDENT HAS LEARNED NOTHING FROM HIS OWN BATTLE WITH THE VIRUS

BIDEN SOT FL: 

“I prayed for his recovery when he got COVID. And I’d hoped at least he’d come out of it somewhat chastened but what has he done? He had just doubled down on the misinformation he did before and making it worse.”

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BIDEN MAKING A PERSONAL PITCH TO KEY SENIOR VOTERS

BIDEN SOT FL: While he throws super spreader parties at the White House. Republicans hug each other without concern of the consequences. How many of you have been unable to hug your grandkids in the last seven months? 

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AND AS THE RACE ENTERS THE FINAL STRETCH, BIDEN IS ABOUT TO GET A BOOST FROM FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA. SOURCES SAY HE ‘S EXPECTED TO HIT THE ROAD FOR HIS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT SOON.

TAG WITH EARLY VOTING NUMBERS, CAN ROLL B-ROLL OF GEORGIA.