Trump accuses Biden of taking performance-enhancing drugs
Republican President Donald Trump has accused his Democratic rival Joe Biden of taking drugs to improve his performance in the Democratic primary season debates.
Trump, who is well behind Biden in national polls, has suggested in a Fox News interview that “something was strange” about the former vice president’s improvement in such debates.
During the first debates in which multiple Democratic candidates participated, Biden was "a disaster" and "grossly incompetent," Trump said, adding, but, at a later debate where Biden was one-on-one with Senator Bernie Sanders, "he was OK."
"He's taking something (that) you know, gives him some clarity, or whatever," he told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.
When Trump was asked whether he thought Biden was taking drugs to "pep himself up," the president answered, "I do. He's taking something. He's taking something" that "gives him some clarity."
Trump demanded that Biden undergo a drug test before the two take part in their first of three presidential debates scheduled for September 29.
“I would take one, too,” Trump, 74, said, adding of his 77-year-old opponent, “He should take a drug test.”
He went on to say that “Joe is lost. We can’t have a president who is mentally lost.”
For months, Trump has suggested Biden has lost a step or two as he has gotten older.
In response, Biden told a Florida radio station that "I'm looking forward to the debate and he's a fool. The comments are just foolish."
Trump has failed Hispanic voters
Speaking at a Hispanic Heritage Month event in Kissimmee, Florida, on Tuesday, Biden said that Trump had failed Hispanic voters with his divisive immigration policies and a disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Donald Trump has failed the Hispanic community time and time again,” he said. “Donald Trump has done nothing but assault the dignity of Hispanic families.”
Hispanics make up about 20% of Florida’s electorate and a Biden win of the state’s 29 electoral votes would dramatically reduce Trump’s chances of another term.
Democrats said that, based on polls, Biden is ahead of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival in 2016, in terms of support among seniors in Florida and among white voters, which means he has plenty of pathways to reach a majority.
They also noted Biden stood a chance of making up ground with Florida Hispanics, particularly among its non-Cuban Latinos who besides Puerto Ricans include Mexicans, Colombians and Venezuelans.
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