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Coronavirus: Trump-Biden love fest continues with president saying he would 'love to speak' to former VP

On April 1, Biden's campaign said that he is willing to talk to Trump over the crisis that has hit over 200,000 in the country
UPDATED APR 2, 2020
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In a rare bipartisan display, President Donald Trump on Wednesday, April 1, said he would love to hear the viewpoints of Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden on fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The president expressed his willingness to speak to the Democrat at the White House coronavirus briefing after Biden’s campaign said earlier on April 1 that the candidate was eager to talk to the chief executive.

"Sure. Oh absolutely, I'd love to speak to him," Trump said, adding: "If he'd like to call, I'd absolutely take his call."

Earlier in the day, Biden's Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield said: "Our teams will be in touch and we will arrange a call... Vice President Biden has been extending his advice for months, and he did so again on the air last night."

"As he has said repeatedly, Donald Trump is not accountable for coronavirus itself — but he is accountable for the federal government’s slow and chaotic response to this outbreak," she added.

Biden recently said in an interview from his home in Delaware that it would be too harsh to say Trump has blood on his hands in connection to the coronavirus outbreak but criticized the administration saying it has responded slowly. In the past, Trump hit out at Biden over his handling of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009 when he was the vice president in the Barack Obama administration. 
 
Trump said on April 1 that he inherited a "broken" system to respond to infectious disease outbreaks but added that he would be happy to talk to Biden, someone he often ridicules as "Sleepy Joe". Recently, he also mocked the 77-year-old as the Democrats' "Best and Finest" over the latter's less-than-perfect hygienic standards during the pandemic. 

Trump calls his foe over Ukraine a 'nice guy'

Trump even certified Biden as a "nice guy" even though his brutal attacks against the former vice president a few months ago over the Ukraine episode backlashed big time. An impeachment inquiry was initiated against Trump by the House for having asked the Ukraine president to probe Biden and his son Robert Hunter Biden though the GOP-controlled Senate later acquitted him.

"I always found him to be a nice guy; I don’t know him very well, frankly," he said. "But I think he's probably a nice guy."

However, not all on Trump’s team are impressed with Biden. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed Biden earlier on April 1 for not calling Trump and offering advice. 

"I think it’s really disappointing to have President Obama's number two, who apparently doesn’t talk much to him, out there criticizing instead of saying, hey, here’s what we did that we thought was effective," Conway said on Fox & Friends. 

"Why doesn't vice president Biden call the White House today and offer some support? He’s in his bunker in Wilmington, and I have to tell you we’re not talking about politics here at the White House at all. We’re talking about ventilators and vaccines, not Biden and Bernie," she added. 

Biden is now leading Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders by a substantial margin to end up clinching the Democratic nomination for this year’s election.

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