On the first morning of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Trump campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley took to Fox News in an attempt to recreate the race between the president and Joe Biden. It did not go as planned.
Host Sandra Smith asked Gidley the same question that Trump was asked Fox & Friends earlier on Monday about the biggest differences between the two candidates. While the president talks about “energy”, “fracking”, and the stock market, Gidley tried to take a broader approach.
“The beauty of this campaign is that you do not have to guess what things look like under either person because they have both been at the top for so long,” Gidley said. “Joe Biden has a 47-year-old failed record in elected office with nothing to show for it, honestly.”
He went on to say, “When he was at the helm, what we like to say is that you do not have to guess what the economy would look like. I just touched it, it was absolutely horrible. People had no jobs. The jobs which were made were made abroad. ”
“You talked about during the Obama administration?” Smith asked, and sounded a little confused.
Gidley went on to falsely accuse Biden of saying he “wants to defend the police” (and he did not) and suggested that as the former vice president “Had the chance to repair a pandemic” he “just stopped testing and said we will not test again because we know it is in the whole country.” It was never made clear what he was talking about at that point.
“OK, there’s a lot to dig into, the economy and other things,” Smith said at that point, interrupting the flow of lies from her guest. “Obviously, during the Obama administration, you have to refer to the fact that you had a significant drop in unemployment that came out of the financial crisis.”
She went on to a new CNN interview that shows a much diminished lead for Biden before Gidley could defend himself on one of his false pretenses. To give his credit, given the chance to praise the one outlier poll showing his boss in a competitive position, he insisted that the polls would eventually be just “wrong” as in 2016.
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