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US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign issued a poorly-timed attack on his Democratic opponent. The campaign mocked former Vice President Joe Biden as he visited his son’s grave on Election Day morning. National press secretary for the president’s re-election campaign, Hogan Gidley wrote in a tweet on Tuesday as the Democratic nominee was leaving the church after visiting the burial grounds where his son, Beau Biden was buried. He said, “Hey, anyone knows if Joe Biden has called a ‘lid’ yet?” The mocking tweet was part of a series of attacks Trump’s campaign has lodged against Biden. It claims the former vice president was not campaigning extensively for the White House and didn’t have the energy or mental fitness for the job.

It is noteworthy that Biden and Democrats have condemned the president and his inner circle’s baseless attacks on the former vice president’s mental capacity in the final months of the campaign. Biden campaign says Trump was spewing disinformation as part of an attempt to hold onto his power with national polls showing the Democrat with a significant lead in key battleground states. The former vice president was scheduled to make his final campaign stops in Pennsylvania after spending the morning with his wife, Jill Biden, at church. Moreover, Trump spent his morning lambasting his opponent on Fox News. He called out the conservative outlet for its coverage of the election.

The president claimed that Biden was worried about losing the state and back out campaigning in the final days of the campaign. Trump said, “Fortunately he’s drawing flies, he’s not getting anybody to go listen to him too much. Actually, Fox puts him on more than anybody else, which is just sort of shocking to me, because Fox has changed a lot”. Both the Republican incumbent and his Democratic opponent have issued their closing arguments in recent weeks across the country. Trump claimed that his administration was spearheading a historic economic recovery following the coronavirus pandemic and Biden arguing the president’s handling of the crisis was almost criminal and a failure of his duties.