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Joe Biden: “He says that we're learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. You folks home will have an empty chair…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2020
He says that we're learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. You folks home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning. That man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their -- out of habit where their wife or husband was, is gone. Learning to live with it? Come on. We're dying with it.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Biden responds to Trump's claim about learning to live with COVID, emphasizing the real losses families are facing.

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