Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Trump, Biden Focus on West Coast Wildfires Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger in the November national election, former Vice President Joe Biden, focused Monday on the historic destructive wildfires on the West Coast. Trump, who has stayed mostly silent about the widespread devastation in the three solidly Democratic states -- California, Oregon and Washington -- is visiting California for a briefing on the wildfires from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a vocal critic of the president. .