Both candidates report testing negative for COVID-19
Aides to Trump and Biden separately reported their candidates tested negative for COVID-19 ahead of the final debate.
Earlier Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that Trump had tested negative, and Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows said the president was tested during the flight from the Washington, D.C., area to Nashville.
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They did not offer information on whether the people who accompanied Trump to Nashville -- including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Tiffany Trump, Bill Stepien, David Bossie and Robert O’Brien -- were tested.
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Biden’s campaign said in an earlier statement the former vice president “underwent PCR testing for COVID-19 today and COVID-19 was not detected” -- his thirteenth negative test since the campaign began disclosing test results in the aftermath of the last debate and Trump’s positive diagnosis.
Biden told reporters on his way to Nashville that he'd hoped everyone got tested ahead of the debate.
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At a NBC News town hall last week, Trump claimed he didn’t remember whether he’d been tested on the day of the first debate, which took place before his first positive COVID-19 test was reported.
-ABC News' Molly Nagle and Jordyn Phelps