President Donald Trump accused the Biden campaign of politicizing the search for a Covid-19 vaccine and said that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris “will never be president.”
“I saw Kamala’s whole numbers drop (during the Democratic primary) from 15 to almost zero and then she dropped out even before she ran in Iowa because people didn’t like it. And I understand why she will never be president, ”Trump told reporters Monday in a briefing that opened with an attack on the California senator of Indian origin.
Harris had said that he would not trust any vaccine announced by Trump without credible and reliable information. Trump called her “the most liberal person in Congress” and demanded that she “apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric.”
He said that she “is not a competent person, in my opinion; it would destroy this country and destroy this economy. ”
Trump insisted that a vaccine can be ready “even before a very special date,” referring to November 3, Election Day. “So now they’re saying, ‘Wow, Trump has done this. Okay, let’s look down on the vaccine, ‘”he said, adding,“ That’s so bad for this country. ”
The president denied that he himself was politicizing the search for vaccines, speaking of a breakthrough as early as October. “No, I say it because we want to save many lives,” he said, adding, “the faster the better. With someone else, maybe they would say it politically, but I mean it in terms that this is what we need.
When asked if he would take the vaccine if it were announced before the election, Harris had said in an interview with CNN: “I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump, and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he’s talking about. “
Trump has repeatedly claimed that a vaccine will have been found by the end of the year for Covid-19 that has killed nearly 190,000 Americans and infected more than 6.4 million, and has put the economy on a tail spin, with millions of people left without work due to the closure. Business.
Questions have been raised about Trump’s handling of the epidemic, and most Americans rated him poorly in polls, putting his re-election bid in serious jeopardy.
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