President Donald Trump demanded on Monday that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) apologize for what he called “their reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric,” the latest in an escalating war of words over a COVID-19 vaccine which has the possibility of being approved before or after Election Day.
The president made the demand during the opening portion of his Labor Day speech delivered at the White House. He was apparently responding to remarks by Harris aired on CNN the day before in which the Democratic vice presidential nominee suggested that she would not trust any vaccine developed under the Trump administration.