The Biden campaign denied the earpiece allegations as little more than a “distraction,” and then it fired back with an accusation that the Trump team demanded that the moderator, Fox News’s Chris Wallace, refrain from mentioning the number of people in the U.S. who have died from Covid-19.
“The Trump team asked that Chris Wallace never once mention the number of Covid deaths once during the debate,” deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said on a pre-debate call with reporters.
“You can consider that confirmed from the Biden campaign,” she said but then seemed to suggest she was making it up. “See how easy that was to try to throw up a distraction? It is pathetic. It’s weak.”