Harris Off The Trail After Two Staffers Test Positive For COVID
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris suspends campaign travel and in-person events after her communications director and another staffer contract COVID-19. The campaign says neither team member had contact with Harris since their positive test.
Joe Biden鈥檚 presidential campaign said Thursday that vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris will suspend in-person events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for coronavirus. The campaign said Biden had no exposure, though he and Harris spent several hours campaigning together in Arizona on Oct. 8. Harris was scheduled to travel Thursday to North Carolina for events encouraging voters to cast early ballots. The campaign told reporters Thursday morning that Harris鈥 communications director and a traveling staff member for her travel to Arizona tested positive after that Oct. 8 trip. (Barrow, 10/15)
The positive tests late Wednesday included a flight crew member, who doesn't work for the campaign, and the senator鈥檚 communications director, Liz Allen, according to Biden campaign manager Jen O鈥橫alley Dillon. Harris wasn鈥檛 in close contact with either person within two days of the tests and so faces no obligation to quarantine, Dillon said. 鈥淩egardless, out of an abundance of caution and in line with our campaign鈥檚 commitment to the highest levels of precaution, we are canceling Senator Harris鈥檚 travel through Sunday, October 18th,鈥 Dillon said. (Jansen, 10/15)
