JOE BIDEN/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden squared off at dueling rallies in Nevada on Saturday [10-20-18], a preview of what could potentially become a nasty 2020 matchup in a critical swing state. Trump, rallying the GOP base in the northern city of Elko, labeled the Democrat ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ and ‘One Percent Joe,’ mocking both the size of the crowd at Biden’s event and the former vice president’s past failed presidential campaigns. Biden responded in kind, telling a crowd of several hundred outside the local Culinary Union here that Trump was ‘shredding’ basic decency and making a deliberate effort to divide the country. Biden said he decided to speak out against Trump after the president’s response to white supremacists marching in Virginia last year. At the rally, Biden criticized the president’s rhetoric on minorities, his embrace of Vladimir Putin and the separation of families at the Mexican border.”
–James Arkin and David Siders, “Trump squares off with Biden in dueling Nevada rallies,” Politico, October 20, 2018 6:07 pm