WASHINGTON – Joe Biden said Monday that he wears a face mask around Secret Service agents, drawing a distinction between himself and President Donald Trump as the issue of using face coverings in public amid a pandemic increasingly becomes a political flash point.
The comment came as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was addressing a virtual town hall on better protecting meatpacking plant employees and others in essential industries exempt from stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus outbreak. “They deserve the personal protective equipment, including gloves like I have on, a mask that I wear whenever I’m around anyone from the Secret Service,” Biden said during an event organized by the League of United Latin American