⁍ Biden slammed what he called the Trump administration’s disregard for safety and failure to develop a plan to contain COVID-19.

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⁍ Biden holds a comfortable lead in national polls, which also show a public increasingly dismayed by Trump’s handling of the largest public health crisis in U.S. living memory.

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⁍ Vice President Mike Pence will campaign on Wednesday in Wisconsin, where a record number of coronavirus cases has prompted the Democratic governor to urge people to stay at home.

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– With less than a week to go until Election Day, President Trump plans to hit 10 states in the final 48 hours of the campaign, a campaign official says. In all, Trump plans to visit 10 states in the last week of the campaign and will host 11 rallies in the final 48 hours, the official tells Reuters. Vice President Mike Pence will campaign in Wisconsin on Wednesday, where a record number of cases of coronavirus—which has killed more than 227,000 people this year—have prompted the Democratic governor to urge people to stay at home. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it—we are facing an urgent crisis and there is an imminent risk to you, your family members, your friends, your neighbors, and the people you care about,” Gov. Tony Evers said. “Stay home, Wisconsin.” Officials in Michigan and Minnesota told Reuters they identified people who attended Trump campaign events in their states and later tested positive for coronavirus, though it was not clear if they were first exposed to the virus at the rallies or elsewhere. The Trump campaign is taking all necessary precautions at Pence’s event, campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley told CNN. Asked whether holding a big rally raised safety concerns given that aides to Pence have tested positive and Wisconsin hospitals are near capacity, Gidley said: “No, it doesn’t. … The vice president has the best doctors in the world around him. They’ve obviously contact traced and come to the conclusion it’s fine for him to be out on the campaign trail.”