The Latest: First lady hits campaign trail for Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) " The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

11:25 a.m.

Melania Trump is set to make her first solo campaign-trail appearance of 2020 for President Donald Trump.

Trump's reelection campaign says the first lady will appear at an event Tuesday in Atglen, Pennsylvania, that will be moderated by former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

The campaign says she will share the president's agenda with Pennsylvanians.

The first lady has not appeared at one of the president's campaign events since June 2019 in Orlando, Florida, where the president formally announced his bid for a second term.

She had been scheduled to headline campaign fundraisers back in March, but those events were canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Mrs. Trump recently recovered from a bout with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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10:15 a.m.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is taking issue with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's criticism that the Trump administration has given up on trying to control the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden had seized on Meadows' Sunday comments on CNN in which Meadows said 'we're not going to control the pandemic.' Asked why, Meadows said it's 'because it is a contagious virus just like the flu.'

Those comments had produced criticism and at least one news headline saying: 'White House gives up on trying to control virus spread.'

On Monday, Meadows tried to do some cleanup. He says, 'The only person waving a white flag along with his white mask is Joe Biden."

Meadows says Trump won't give up until all Americans are safe and the virus is defeated. He says, 'We are going to defeat the virus. We are not going to control it. We will try to contain it as best we can.'

Meadows spoke to reporters at the White House on Monday before the Republican president travels to campaign events in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania.

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