乔·拜登的竞选高级顾问西蒙·桑德斯(Symone Sanders)周日承认，在11月之前的50多天里，前副总统的竞选团队要努力争取拉丁裔选民选举。
桑德斯在“本周”节目中对美国广播公司首席新闻主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯说:“我们知道我们有工作要做，我们从一开始就说过，副总统拜登对此非常清楚，参议员(卡玛拉)哈里斯也是如此。我们正在努力赢得这个国家的每一张选票，我们希望赢得拉丁裔和西班牙裔社区的选票，所以我们正在做这项工作。”
“就在上周，你在佛罗里达州看到了哈里斯参议员。她也在亚利桑那州做虚拟活动。副总统拜登本人下周将前往佛罗里达州，我们将进行虚拟活动和采访，因为我们致力于做这项工作，”桑德斯补充说。
新:“我们知道我们有工作要做，”西蒙·桑德斯说@ GStephanopoulos当被问及民调显示拜登和拉美裔的支持率“相对较弱”时。
“我们真的在努力赢得这个国家的每一张选票，”桑德斯补充道。https://t.co/wrpzG1Q2k9pic.twitter.com/NdErLtZf8S
—本周(@ThisWeekABC)2020年9月13日
虽然在最近的全国民调中，拜登在拉丁裔选民中比特朗普占优势，但他在关键投票群体中的支持率低于希拉里·克林顿在2016年和最近的一次民调中的支持率美国全国广播公司新闻/玛丽斯特佛罗里达民意测验显示总统唐纳德·特朗普在该州的拉丁裔选民中，拜登以50%对46%的支持率领先，在古巴选民中也以相当大的优势领先。
最近几周，拜登在竞选活动中变得更加活跃，在2020年竞选的最后几周，他访问了包括威斯康星州、密歇根州和宾夕法尼亚州在内的关键战场州，尽管遭到了攻击来自特朗普竞选高级顾问杰森·米勒——在《本周》的早些时候的采访中——以及周六晚上特朗普说这位前副总统又在“他该死的地下室”竞选了。
“事实是副总统拜登和参议员哈里斯都在积极竞选，但不同的是，乔治，我们这样做是安全的。我们让科学引领我们，我们倾听专家的意见。你知道，安全对我们的竞选至关重要——选民的安全，我们竞选人员的安全，这就是为什么副总统拜登正在塑造良好的行为，”桑德斯在受到斯特凡诺普洛斯的挑战时说。
“他戴着面具，我们保持着社交距离，正如你将在我们的活动和新闻发布会上看到的那样。这与特朗普总统正在做的事情形成了鲜明的对比，他与聚集在一起的一大群人举行了大型集会。”
在他增加旅行之前，这位前副总统的竞选活动主要是由于冠状病毒大流行，拜登围绕他认为特朗普缺乏遏制病毒的行动来完善他的竞选信息。
本周，随着总统接受记者鲍勃·伍德沃德采访时新录音的发布，辩论变得更加激烈，据报道他故意将新型冠状病毒的严重性降到最低，尽管他知道它的真正危险。
周三，特朗普在回应中没有否认淡化疫情对美国公众构成的威胁，称他“不想制造恐慌”。
“我不会让这个国家或世界陷入疯狂。我们想表现出信心。我们要展示实力。我们想展示作为一个国家的力量。这就是我所做的，”特朗普说。
拜登周三在密歇根州沃伦发表讲话时说，总统“几个月来有意无意地对美国构成的威胁撒谎”，并称淡化这一威胁的决定是“对美国人民的生死背叛”。
西蒙·桑德斯告诉记者，当被问及为什么拜登在1月或2月没有呼吁旅行禁令、社交距离或戴面具时@ GStephanopoulos拜登没有特朗普那样“听取国家安全专家的简报”，但作为总统，他会采取“适当的预防措施”。https://t.co/6pdvKcRdakpic.twitter.com/dEcp5IRMH6
—本周(@ThisWeekABC)2020年9月13日
尽管拜登在10月份对美国应对大流行的能力提出了担忧，并在1月底写了一篇专栏文章，对特朗普应对新冠肺炎大流行的能力提出了担忧，但在斯特凡诺普洛斯(Stephanopoulos)的压力下，拜登主张美国在今年早些时候采取什么具体行动来应对冠状病毒大流行时，桑德斯认为，拜登没有总统收到的关于病毒严重程度的相同信息。
“我特别问了你1月和2月的情况，我看到了总统的专栏——副总统在10月写的，我看到了他在1月写的。但他没有明确呼吁禁止旅行、保持社交距离或戴口罩，”斯特凡诺普洛斯问道。
“在1月和2月，乔·拜登没有听取国家安全专家的简报，这些专家警告他这种病毒有多致命。在1月和2月，乔·拜登不知道特朗普总统知道。但我会告诉你，如果乔·拜登在1月或2月当选总统，他会采取适当的预防措施。他会告诉美国人民，”桑德斯回应道。
Biden senior adviser says campaign has 'work to do' with Latino voters
Joe Biden's campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders acknowledged Sunday that the former vice president's campaign has work to do to woo Latino voters with just over 50 days until the Novemberelection.
"We know we have work to do and we have said from the beginning and Vice President Biden has been very clear about this -- as has Sen. (Kamala) Harris -- and we're really working to earn every single vote in this country and we want to earn the votes of the Latino and Hispanic community and so we're doing the work," Sanders told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
"You saw Sen. Harris out in Florida just this past week. She also did virtual events in Arizona. Vice President Biden himself will be traveling to Florida next week and we'll be doing virtual events and interviews, because we're committed to doing the work," Sanders added.
NEW: “We know that we have work to do,” Symone Sanders tells@GStephanopouloswhen asked about polls that show Biden with “relatively weaker” numbers with Latinos.
“We are really working to earn every single vote in this country," Sanders adds.https://t.co/wrpzG1Q2k9pic.twitter.com/NdErLtZf8S
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC)September 13, 2020
While Biden holds an advantage to Trump among Latino voters in recent national polling, his support with the key voting group is weaker than Hillary Clinton's in 2016, and a recentNBC News/Marist Floridapoll showed PresidentDonald Trumpleading Biden in support with Latino voters in the state, 50% to 46%, and with a sizable lead among Cuban voters.
In recent weeks, Biden has been more active on the campaign trail, making visits to key battleground states including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign -- despite attacksfrom Trump campaign senior adviserJason Miller -- in an earlier interview on "This Week" -- and from Trump Saturday night when he said that the former vice president is campaigning in "his damn basement again."
"The reality is Vice President Biden is actively campaigning, as is Sen. Harris, but the difference is, George, we're doing so safely. We're letting the science lead us, we are listening to the experts. You know, safety is of the utmost importance to our campaign -- the safety of the voters, the safety of our campaign staff, and that is why Vice President Biden is modeling good behavior," Sanders said when challenged by Stephanopoulos.
"He's wearing a mask, we're social distancing, as you'll see in our events and press conferences. That stands in stark opposition to what President Trump is doing, having huge rallies with large groups of people who are packed in together."
Prior to his increased travel, the former vice president's campaign was largely conducted virtually due to thecoronaviruspandemic, with Biden honing his campaign message around what he considers Trump's lack of action to contain the virus.
The debate intensified this week with the release of new recordings of the president in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward admitting,according to reports, that he deliberately minimized the seriousness of the novel coronavirus to the public despite understanding its true danger.
In response Wednesday, Trump did not deny downplaying the threat the pandemic posed to the American public, saying he didn't "want to create panic."
"I'm not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. We want to show confidence. We want to show strength. We want to show strength as a nation. And that's what I've done," Trump said.
In a speech Wednesday in Warren, Michigan, Biden said the president "knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months" and called the decision to downplay the threat as "a life-and-death betrayal of the American people."
Pressed on why Biden did not call for a travel ban, social distancing or masks in Jan. or Feb., Symone Sanders tells@GStephanopoulosBiden wasn't “briefed by national security experts” as Trump was, but would have taken “proper precautions” as president.https://t.co/6pdvKcRdakpic.twitter.com/dEcp5IRMH6
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC)September 13, 2020
While Biden raised concerns about the country's ability to deal with a pandemic in October, and penned an op-ed raising concerns about Trump's ability to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in late January, when pressed by Stephanopoulos on what specific actions Biden advocated the country take early in the year to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, Sanders argued that Biden did not have the same information that the president was receiving about the severity of the virus.
"I asked you specifically about January and February, I saw the op-ed the president -- the vice president wrote in October, I saw the one he wrote in January. But he didn't explicitly call for travel bans or social distancing or wearing mask," Stephanopoulos asked.
"In January and February, Joe Biden was not being briefed by national security experts who warned him how deadly the virus was. In January and February, Joe Biden did not have the knowledge that President Trump did. But I will tell you that if Joe Biden were president in January or February, he would have taken proper precautions. He would have told the American people," Sanders responded.
