Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate for the United States, countered President Donald Trump’s attacks on him since the convention with a series of tweets, noting the proliferation of Covid-19 cases and infections across the country. Biden held President Trump responsible for the protests he tried to portray as anarchy.
Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice presidential candidate, had delivered a more detailed critique of the president’s handling of the Covid-19 epidemic and her response to the anti-racism protest in a prebuttal. She argued, “Trump doesn’t understand the presidency.”
Remember: all the examples of violence that Donald Trump denounces have occurred during his tenure. Under your leadership. During his presidency, ”Biden responded in a tweet, to Trump’s description of them as harbingers of the kind of anarchy and chaos that will take place under Biden’s supervision.
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Trump has tried to position himself as a law and order president, he has used anti-racial protests to stoke fears about anarchy that links them to the radical left of the Democratic Party, who, according to him, will be making the decisions. a Biden administration.
In his counterattack, Biden sought to keep the focus on Trump’s key vulnerability: the Covid-19 epidemic that has killed nearly 180,000 Americans and infected 6 million.
“From the moment COVID-19 emerged, President Trump downplayed the threat it posed, refused to listen to experts, and took no action to contain its spread,” he wrote in a tweet. “Now we are paying the price.”
In remarks prepared for the prebuttal, Harris said, Trump had shown “reckless disregard for the danger a pandemic would pose to the lives of Americans. Because of the devastation, it would be good for our economy. For the damage, I would do to communities of color that have been subjected to structural racism for generations.
“He never appreciated a president taking an oath before God and the country to protect America from visible and unseen threats. It’s your duty. It is your duty to protect us. And yet it has failed. Miserably, ”he added.
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