donald trump I repeated his request. joe biden US presidential candidates are drug tested before live TV debates, and the president said he was “flying like a kite” during his State of the Union address in March.
Biden agreed this week to debate Trump on June 27 and September 10. Opinion polls show Republicans with a narrow lead.
“He's acting like he wants to argue with me again. Well, good luck today,” Biden said, adding that he defeated Trump in a pre-2020 presidential debate. .
At a dinner in Minnesota on Friday night, Trump said he was open to participating in the debate.
“I just want to debate this guy, but you know, I'm also going to demand a drug test,” the 77-year-old Trump told Republican lawmakers at a dinner.
“I am. No, really. I don't want him to come like the State of the Union address. He was high as a kite,” he said, adding, “I'm going to demand a drug test.”
Trump did not say whether he would also take a drug test before the televised debate.
Claims that the 81-year-old Biden was using drugs during his State of the Union address have become a hot topic on the American right, even though they are not based on any evidence.
On Thursday, Greg Murphy, a Republican and urologist, accused the president of being “fooled by something that day.”
“He can't stand under the lights that long, and I don't think he can keep a concept in his head that long,” he said on Fox News.
Fox News host Sean Hannity also called Biden “overcaffeinated.”
This is not the first time Trump has asked Biden to take a drug test.
He claimed that Biden had been “erratic” in the 2020 Democratic primary and said he would “strongly urge” a drug test before the debate for the White House that year.
“Vice President Biden intends to verbalize his answer to the debate. If the president believes his best evidence is in urine, he may do so,” Kate, Biden's deputy campaign manager, said at the time. Mr. Bedingfield replied.
“We cannot expect anything less from Donald Trump, who has ruined our chance to save 200,000 American lives by failing to develop a plan to stop the coronavirus. Sho.”
In the end, neither of them took a drug test.
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