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Thursday, Oct 8 2020

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No More Mr. Nice Guy: Trump, Biden Campaigns Again Will Let Insults Fly

Joe Biden's campaign, which had paused all negative ads following Donald Trump's COVID-19 hospitalization, says it will resume them. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign's Facebook ads are altering images of Biden to make him look unhealthy.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign plans to resume running negative digital and television advertisements against President Trump as he recovers from COVID-19, a person familiar with the plans confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The move, first reported by Bloomberg in the late afternoon Wednesday, comes after the Biden campaign decided to take down all negative advertisements Friday following news of the president’s and first lady Melania Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis. (Castronuovo, 10/7)

Facebook advertising from Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign appears to be once again using edited images of Joe Biden. With the president tweeting from the White House after testing positive for COVID-19, a new wave of political ads show his opponent with unflattering facial expressions and a skin tone seemingly edited to make it appear discolored, older or unhealthy. (Murdock, 10/7)

President Donald Trump, still confined to the White House where he is being treated for COVID-19, planned more steps on Thursday to try to reinvigorate a re-election campaign hit hard by his handling of the pandemic. Trump is scheduled to appear in his first TV interview since revealing last Friday he had contracted COVID-19. Fox Business Network said the interview would air on Thursday after 8 a.m. (1200 GMT). (Mason and Holland, 10/8)

During a segment on Fox News on Monday, Trump campaign communications director Erin Perrine said President Trump battling coronavirus is among a set of attributes that former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have. (10/5)

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