By Joseph Ax

July 23 (Reuters) - Democratic presidential prospect Joe Biden and previous President Barack Obama blasted Republican President Donald Trump's managing of the coronavirus pandemic in a movie aired on Thursday, Free live chat as the Biden campaign tapped the star energy of America's initial Black president.

Obama and Biden, who served as his vice president, sat down dealing with every other in chairs from across a space for a "socially distanced" dialogue.

Each adult men unveiled the online video on Twitter, wherever Obama has a hundred and twenty.eight million followers, the most on the system.

"Can you picture standing up when you have been president, expressing, 'It's not my accountability?'" Biden requested Obama, referring to Trump's initiatives to evade blame for the pandemic.

"People words and phrases failed to occur out of our mouths when we had been in business," Obama replied.

The Trump campaign did not immediately comment.

With classic campaigning nonetheless in limbo owing to the pandemic, the video clip supplied a glimpse of how Obama - nonetheless overwhelmingly preferred among Democratic voters - may well be deployed to build enthusiasm for November's presidential election.

In the course of their 1st in-man or woman assembly because Biden grew to become presumptive Democratic nominee, they spoke about the need to have to grow on the Reasonably priced Treatment Act.

They observed that the Trump administration is trying to persuade the U.S.nnSupreme Courtroom to invalidate the ACA, also recognised as "Obamacare," their administration's signature software that vastly expanded U.S. health and fitness insurance coverage coverage.

"It is tricky to fathom any person seeking to consider absent people's health and fitness treatment in the middle of a key public well being disaster," Obama said.

They also discussed Biden's skill to empathize, a trait his campaign has stressed to distinction him with Trump.

"I will not understand his incapacity to get a feeling of what men and women are going via," Biden mentioned.nn"He can not relate in any way."

Obama reported, "It is a indication of leadership when you are prepared to listen to other people's activities." (Reporting by Joseph Ax Modifying by David Gregorio)