During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden responded to a question on his praise of protests over the summer and his condemnation of President Donald Trump's rallies by stating that people should be careful about contracting coronavirus no matter what, his praise of protests was simply about people's right to free speech, and "there is a big difference between people walking, moving along, and people sitting down, cheek to jowl, shoulder to shoulder, a thousand of them, breathing on one another, indoors and out."