Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration has failed the United States. In the early days of the crisis, when Trump himself and his allies could have been working to shore up America’s defenses against the disease, they were ranting and raving about how the virus was supposedly getting hyped up by Democrats in order to make the president look bad. That was a lie, and now the U.S. has suffered for months. This week, newly announced Democratic vice presidential contender Kamala Harris publicly called out Trump and Mike Pence over the staggering failures of their Coronavirus response.
Besides recently noting on Twitter that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s call for a nation-wide mask-wearing mandate is “what real leadership looks like,” Harris tweeted:
‘Just look where Donald Trump and Mike Pence got us: more than 16 million out of work. Millions of kids who cannot go back to school. More than 165,000 lives have been cut short by coronavirus, many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye. This was preventable.’
This is what real leadership looks like. https://t.co/cJN9Ij8soz
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 13, 2020
Just look where Donald Trump and Mike Pence got us: more than 16 million out of work. Millions of kids who cannot go back to school. More than 165,000 lives have been cut short by coronavirus, many with loved ones who never got the chance to say goodbye.
This was preventable.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 14, 2020
Trump, of course, has at essentially no point acknowledged the failures of his administration. He’s struggled to even acknowledge the tolls of the pandemic. During a recent interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swan, when confronted over the high daily death tolls, Trump infamously and dismissively said “it is what it is,” as if that’s supposed to mean something to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have lost their loved ones to the pandemic and the millions more who have lost their jobs or had their lives uprooted in some other manner during the pandemic. It’s particularly appalling and tone-deaf when the Trump team tries to tout recent economic “growth” as some kind of miracle without acknowledging the deep cavern that the economy fell into throughout the previous months — there’s still a long way to go before any sort of “stability.”
Americans are clearly cognizant of the problem. As of Friday morning, Biden leads by an average of 7.7 percent in national polls, according to RealClearPolitics. Harris, meanwhile, also called Trump out over his threats to cancel payroll taxes that fund Social Security.
85 years ago today Social Security was signed into law, but just last week Trump said he’ll defund Social Security if reelected.
The choice in November is clear: we must elect @JoeBiden to strengthen and expand Social Security so our seniors can retire with dignity.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 14, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to Harris below:
