Joe Biden plans to urge Americans to mask up for 100 days when he takes office and said he’s asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to stay on in his administration — plowing ahead with his transition as President Trump suffered another legal blow at the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Biden said during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Thursday that he would make his request of the public on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
“I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask. Not forever, just 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction” in the spread of the virus, Biden said.
Biden has previously spoken of a national mask mandate to help curb the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus that has killed 275,000 Americans and infected more than 14 million.
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“It is important that we, in fact, as the president and the vice president, we set the pattern by wearing masks,” Biden said, in contrast to Trump, who has eschewed wearing face coverings throughout the pandemic.
And Biden said he would look to issue a “standing order” that in federal buildings and on interstate transportation “you must be masked.”
The president-elect also said he had asked Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to remain in the role he’s held in several administrations and to serve as his chief medical adviser.
“I asked him to stay on in the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the COVID team,” Biden said, adding that he’d spoken with Fauci earlier in the day.
Biden said that once a vaccine is approved — which could come as soon as next week in the United States — “we have to make it clear to the American people that the vaccine is safe.”
Asked by Tapper about the possibility of pre-emptive pardons by Trump, Biden said it “concerns” him in terms of “what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us.”
Trump suffered a setback in his challenges to the election results Thursday, even as his campaign and the Republican National Committee announced they had raised a staggering $207.5 million since Election Day in a fundraising push that has focused on “election defense” even as the money has been split among several committees.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear Trump’s lawsuit that was to overturn his 20,700-vote loss to Biden, ruling that the case must first wind its way through lower courts before the state’s highest court can rule on its merits.
The court’s ruling was 4-3, with conservative justices dissenting. But two of those three didn’t seem to side with Trump on the merits of the case, questioning whether disqualifying more than 221,000 ballots, as Trump sought, would be the proper remedy to the errors he alleged.
Trump claimed malfeasance in two heavily Democratic counties, saying there were irregularities in the processing of absentee ballots.
Trump’s attorney Jim Troupis said he would immediately file the case in state circuit court and expected to be back before the Supreme Court “very soon.”
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Slo joe is incapable of having an idea. Masks do NOTHING to impede the spread of the virus. Those who believe they do are just plain ignorant of the scientific facts.
He obviously is a major stock holder in a mask production company, or else is just doing it the easy way with kickbacks under the table, to and through his son,,,,,follow the money. Might want to check Fauci’s investment portfolio and bank accounts as well. Biden attacks the small business owners to the benefit of Chinese connected Amazon, Walmart, and others as if they pose as a real potential threat to defiance of his proposed tyranny. You just got to know someone is paying him off and his party as well. Hi-Tech is in deeper than the others and refuse to lose their current Chinese investments , business models that might return them to the good old USA.
Remember the masks are made in China.
Which is why they are useless and don’t work.
Even the ones i got from lowes, are made in china.. SO MUCH FOr all those US Companies who were supposed to be making them.
OK…Quid Pro Joe… Explain how it is 88.6% of people testing positive for the CHINA virus wore masks religiously. Following the “science” you Godless, anti-American demons just love to follow… My chances are greatly heightened by wearing one… you and all the morons that voted for you and Camel Toe (even the ones that don’t exist) can kiss my but…and I will…NEVER do …ANYTHING you projectile vomit at the public.
Hell. Explain how HOSPITAL WORKERS, who not only mask up, but gown and glove up, WASH religiously, and even wear FACE SHIELDS, still caught the virus.
Joe Biden has no right, under the Constitution, ordering me to wear a mask 24 hours a day. Of course, Joe Biden and the Democrat Party do not believe in our Constitution. Isn’t communism nice folks?
NOR do the judges, who KEEP UPHOLDING their illegal dictates…
the lap dog news media act like he is already potus.
he is not even president elect yet but they call him that.
we are really living in the most evil time i can remember in the u.s.a.
That’s because the lapdog PRAVDA department, HAS never accepted TRUMP WAS ever president.
Will that ‘100 days’ end up being like the ‘two weeks of lockdown to flatten the curve’?
The beginning of Government take over, lock us up and shot us down.
We need Marshal Law by President Trump and a revote with IDs and paper in person balloting.
AMEN!!!
AND then, it will expand to 1 year, 2 years etc.. THE DEMS WILL NEVER EVER give up the SHEER AMOUNT OF POWER they now have been able to steal, thanks to this PLANNEDDEMIC.
Been there, did that. Remember the 30 day plan guaranteed to stop the virus? It did not work nor did the lockdowns end.
Masks don’t work.
Socialist distancing doesn’t work.
Nothing the self appointed experts demand works.
And yet, sheeple continue to obey these bozos? Why?
MOO.. Cause they are brainwashed fools.. That’s why.
“…I think we’ll see a significant reduction…”
And if we don’t? First it was “mask for 14 days”. Then it was six months, then six MORE. Now the promise of another three month extension of the mask culture and we are supposed to believe it this time?
They will KEEP moving the goal posts, as long as WE LET THEM get away with it..