Biden campaign removes negative ads, wishes Trump family quick recovery

A campaign official from Joe Biden announced they would pull all negative advertisements from their rotation, according to a tweet from NBC News.

Biden himself tweeted, "This cannot be a partisan moment. It must be an American moment. We have to come together as a nation."

He also tweeted a message of best wishes to the Trump family, writing, “Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.”

Biden tested negative for the coronavirus, his doctor announced Friday, hours after President Donald Trump’s positive coronavirus test drastically altered the nature of the race and underscored the health and political risks of seeking to engage voters in a pandemic.

Trump’s diagnosis again pushed the dangers of the virus to the forefront of the campaign with just one month until Election Day and injected new uncertainty into an already extraordinarily volatile race.

Biden, 77, was tested Friday, as were others who attended the presidential debate with him earlier this week, including his wife, Jill Biden. A statement from Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, said that COVID-19 “was not detected.” The campaign released the statement.

“I’m happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID,” Biden tweeted. “Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern.”

Democrats, in the meantime, urged Biden to continue on the campaign trail.

“This is not a hiatus of the campaign,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., even as he said he expected the campaign to continue to follow “good safety rules.” “We’re in the closing stretch of the campaign and they’ve got to be aggressively campaigning.”