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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP had planned to go on the offense against Joe Biden
At issue were plans by the Republican Party to make China a central issue as the 2020 election heated up, blaming one of the United States largest trading partner for the coronavirus pandemic while also linking the country to former Vice President Joe Biden who is expected to the Democratic Partys presidential candidate.
The strategy could not be clearer: From the Republican lawmakers blanketing Fox News to new ads from President Trumps super PAC to the biting criticism on Donald Trump Jr.s Twitter feed, the G.O.P. is attempting to divert attention from the administrations heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China, the report begins. Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China. Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher toward the country where the virus first emerged. Party officials are publicly and privately brandishing polling data in hopes Mr. Trump will confront Beijing.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/republican-leaders-furious-with-trump-for-blowing-up-their-key-campaign-talking-point-before-the-2020-election-report/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Don't they also have patents from China . . . .
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,794 posts)And they are devastating for Trump.
Just saw an anti-McConnell PAC ad.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)this outbreak is really the crime here. We have had outbreaks before, the swine flu, the H1N1 virus, the ebola virus, etc., and all these republican nuts can think of is blaming others for their dismal failures in handling the CV that is already here in the US, not those cases raging in China.
Talk about typhoid Mary, we should be talking about 'coronavirus Trump' and his failures on all fronts, in protecting this country (hint, he didn't).
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Whoever does ads for Dems needs to keep pounding on Trump's bullshit and incompetence using his own words.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Vinca
(50,310 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... is going to place onus on a person who was not in power in this situation.