President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden's campaigns say the candidates both tested negative for COVID-19 on the day of the last presidential debate.
Trump and Biden will face off for a second and final time Thursday night after Trump's coronavirus diagnosis led last week's debate to be canceled. And this time around, officials will at least say when he last tested negative. "We tested him on the way here and he tested negative," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters Thursday afternoon. Meadows wouldn't say if Trump took a rapid COVID-19 test or a more accurate PCR test.
Biden's campaign said Thursday the former vice president underwent PCR testing for the virus and came up negative. He'll face Trump at 9 p.m. EST from Belmont University in Nashville.
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Both Trump and the White House have refused to say when Trump last tested negative before the first presidential debate in late September, with Trump saying he couldn't remember if he was even tested that day.
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