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“Millions of students are now starting the new school year in the same way they finished the last one — at home,” Joe Biden said on Sept. 2. (Video: The Washington Post)

Biden says schools would be opening safely if Trump had done his job

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday that schools would be opening safely — instead of faced with a “national emergency” — if President Trump had done his job handling the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden’s remarks in Wilmington, Del., came shortly before Trump staged an event in the battleground state of North Carolina to commemorate World War II and tout his support for the military.  
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Trump, on his visit to Wisconsin, blames “far-left politicians” for violence in the wake of the Kenosha police shooting.
Biden turns his attention back to the coronavirus and the reopening of schools.
Trying to paint Biden as extreme, Trump ramps up promotion of conspiracy theories.
The Upper Midwest emerges as the most crucial Biden-Trump battleground.
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Trump, on his visit to Wisconsin, blames “far-left politicians” for violence in the wake of the Kenosha police shooting.
Biden turns his attention back to the coronavirus and the reopening of schools.
Trying to paint Biden as extreme, Trump ramps up promotion of conspiracy theories.
The Upper Midwest emerges as the most crucial Biden-Trump battleground.
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