Watch: Biden partners with Obama in new campaign video that targets Trump

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama partnered in a campaign video that features a conversation about the nation’s crisis while ripping President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The video, released Wednesday, begins with Biden asking “can you imagine standing up when you were president saying ‘it’s not my responsibility. I take no responsibility.’
• In March, Trump blamed Obama’s administration for coronavirus testing delays and said, “I don’t take responsibility at all.”

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama reunited to hold a socially distanced conversation about the many challenges facing the nation right now, while ripping President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden’s presidential campaign on Wednesday released a video preview of the gathering – which was held in the Washington, D.C., building where the former president’s office is located. Both men are seen arriving clad in black masks and then sitting socially distanced for their conversation.

The video starts with Biden asking “can you imagine standing up when you were president saying ‘it’s not my responsibility. I take no responsibility.’ Literally. Literally.”

Obama answered “those words didn’t come out of our mouths while we were in office.”

In March, Trump blamed the previous administration for the delays in coronavirus testing and said, “I don’t take responsibility at all.” And a month later, Trump said he took no responsibility for any increase in people using disinfectants improperly a few days after publicly contemplating whether such disinfectants could treat COVID-19.

In the clip, Biden says that he doesn’t understand Trump’s “inability to get a sense of what people are going through. He just can’t relate in any way.”

Obama responds that “one of the things I have always known about you Joe, it’s the reason I wanted you to be my vice president, and the reason why you were so effective … it all starts with being able to relate.”

Showing the two men sitting in chairs and socially distanced in an office setting, the former president says “If you can sit down with a family and see your own family in them and the struggles you’ve gone through or your parents went through or your kids are going through, if you can connect those struggles to somebody else’s struggles, then you’re going to work hard for them, and that’s always what’s motivated you to get into public service.”

White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere – responding to the clip – said “any suggestion that President Trump did no take the threat of COVID-19 seriously or prioritize the health and safety of the American people is blatantly false.”

The former vice president’s campaign says the two men also discussed “how the nation is grappling with systemic racism, and the current opportunity to make lasting change rooting out of these historic inequities.” The conversation is scheduled to be streamed starting Thursday on both the Biden and Obama social media channels.

According to Fox News, Biden and Obama will team up again for another fundraiser next Tuesday, July 28. The event is being described as a virtual conversation. The fundraiser was first reported by ABC News.

Source: Fox News