Donald Trump’s chief of staff said Sunday that “we are not going to control the pandemic,” prompting a reprimand from the Biden campaign that they are “admitting defeat.”
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows spoke amid a sharp resurgence of the coronavirus in the US, with case numbers setting daily records and the death toll fast approaching 225,000.
When a CNN interviewer asked Meadows why the administration was unable to control the virus, he responded, “Because it is a contagious virus like the flu.”
He then qualified that, saying, “We are making efforts to contain it.”
Democrat Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris was asked during a campaign stop in Michigan about Meadows’ comments and said: “They’re admitting defeat, and I’ve been saying that, and Joe Biden has been. saying from the beginning. ”
He criticized Meadows for comparing the coronavirus to the flu, according to a report from the group.
“This is the biggest failure of any presidential administration in the history of the United States,” he said.
Biden and Harris have been criticizing Trump for his handling of the pandemic, which has seen the United States suffer roughly a fifth of the world’s total deaths, though its population is only four percent of the total.
The disease has reached the bottom of the White House itself.
Three weeks after Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19, a spokesman announced Saturday that Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, had tested positive, but added that Pence would nonetheless continue to cross the country. in the last days of the Campaign.
CNN interviewer Jake Tapper lobbied Meadows about Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, apparently flaunting federal Centers for Disease Control guidelines by traveling and not self-quarantining after exposure to Short.
“I can tell you that he’s wearing a mask and he’s going to wear it today,” Meadows said. “Obviously when you have an exposure you have to take additional mitigating factors.”
Harris stayed out of the election campaign briefly after a senior adviser tested positive.
Meanwhile, even if Biden wears masks regularly and holds small, socially distanced rallies, Trump will continue to hold much larger events without the mask requirement, Meadows said.
“We are not demanding masks,” he said. “We offer them. We live in a free society.”
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows spoke amid a sharp resurgence of the coronavirus in the US, with case numbers setting daily records and the death toll fast approaching 225,000.
When a CNN interviewer asked Meadows why the administration was unable to control the virus, he responded, “Because it is a contagious virus like the flu.”
He then qualified that, saying, “We are making efforts to contain it.”
Democrat Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris was asked during a campaign stop in Michigan about Meadows’ comments and said: “They’re admitting defeat, and I’ve been saying that, and Joe Biden has been. saying from the beginning. ”
He criticized Meadows for comparing the coronavirus to the flu, according to a report from the group.
“This is the biggest failure of any presidential administration in the history of the United States,” he said.
Biden and Harris have been criticizing Trump for his handling of the pandemic, which has seen the United States suffer roughly a fifth of the world’s total deaths, though its population is only four percent of the total.
The disease has reached the bottom of the White House itself.
Three weeks after Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19, a spokesman announced Saturday that Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, had tested positive, but added that Pence would nonetheless continue to cross the country. in the last days of the Campaign.
CNN interviewer Jake Tapper lobbied Meadows about Pence, who heads the White House coronavirus task force, apparently flaunting federal Centers for Disease Control guidelines by traveling and not self-quarantining after exposure to Short.
“I can tell you that he’s wearing a mask and he’s going to wear it today,” Meadows said. “Obviously when you have an exposure you have to take additional mitigating factors.”
Harris stayed out of the election campaign briefly after a senior adviser tested positive.
Meanwhile, even if Biden wears masks regularly and holds small, socially distanced rallies, Trump will continue to hold much larger events without the mask requirement, Meadows said.
“We are not demanding masks,” he said. “We offer them. We live in a free society.”
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