AL SHARPTON: The response has been -- as I said to Congresswoman Bass -- basically civil from the Democratic side, the congressional and Senate, civil rights community, many of us who fight and President and who the President has mocked us. Listen to the civility shown even by his opponent, the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden.
JOE BIDEN, DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: My wife Jill and I pray that they'll make a quick and full recovery. This is not about politics -- it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously.
SHARPTON: So he's shown real civility -- something that this President hasn't shown -- but I don't think -- I know in my case it's not a strategy. That's just who we are. He -- Biden has pulled the negative ads -- attack ads, I would say -- off the air. But give me the political fallout for the Republicans in some tight races now. If Donald Trump is not out there having the big rallies, galvanizing, tweeting, does does this make a real political problem, particularly in those races that are very close for Republicans or in a race like North Carolina where now we hear Tillis, the incumbent Republican Senator, has been found -- diagnosed to be positive with COVID-19?
RICK TYLER, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Well, Rev, happy birthday. Look, this is a huge problem for the Republicans, and because Donald Trump is effectively off the campaign trail, he's immobilized. That has problems in itself. He has contracted a deadly virus -- voters will take that into consideration. And when Donald Trump is removed, all the advantages that he had of incumbency, by virtue of contracting disease -- which, by the way -- and I appreciate your gracious tone at the beginning. I don't have that kind of sympathy -- and I wish I did, Rev -- that you have because I look at this as a drunk driver who injured himself in a wreck and killed the oncoming sober driver. Donald Trump has injured himself and injured 200,000 people -- other drivers have died from the coronavirus.
So I don't have sympathy for Donald Trump. He put himself in this situation. He could have done very simple things which he continued not to do to not have contracted this virus. And now he has the virus, and I hear some talk about we should delay the election. Baloney. There's one candidate who ran a campaign as if there was a pandemic -- that was Joe Biden. And there was another who ran a campaign as if there wasn't, and that was Donald Trump. Well, guess what? Reality has caught up with Donald Trump, and now he's going to have to pay the consequences. And Republicans are going to have to pay the consequences as well.
You've seen all the video of the White House events, the rallies, people with no masks, his own family taking off their masks at the debate -- not telling Joe Biden that he may have contracted this disease. And, by the way, I believe that Donald Trump knew about when he contracted this disease far before 1:00 in the morning the other night. I don't think they would have made an on the spot decision to issue a press release because they're not that transparent. They're calculating. That's what they've done, and this is the situation we're in.