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“Here’s why Trump has been so unwilling and unable to deal with this crisis. First, he was fixated on the stock market over fixing the problem.”
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— Kamala Harris
The road above got here Thursday from Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s operating mate, as she delivered a speech through which she attacked President Donald Trump’s dealing with of the coronavirus disaster.
Harris went on to say that Trump tweeted concerning the market “consistently during this period. He was convinced that if his administration focused on this virus, it would hurt the market and hurt his chances of being re-elected.”
“Second, right at the moment we needed Donald Trump to be tough on the Chinese government, he caved,” she added, noting that Trump praised Beijing’s response to COVID-19 in January.
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In her roughly 20-minute speech from Washington, D.C., the Democratic vice presidential nominee additionally mentioned a pandemic is “relentless — you can’t stop it with a tweet.”
As well as, she criticized this week’s Republican Nationwide Conference, a four-day occasion that ends tonight with a speech from Trump.
“The Republican convention is designed for one purpose — to soothe Donald Trump’s ego, to make him feel good,” Harris mentioned.
“But here’s the thing. He’s the president of the United States, and it’s not supposed to be about him. It’s supposed to be about the health and the safety and the well-being of the American people. And on that measure, Donald Trump has failed.”
See: Trump to assault Biden tonight as a ‘weak candidate with a poor record’
Harris additionally addressed the latest taking pictures by police in Kenosha, Wis., of a Black man, Jacob Blake, saying it was “sickening” and she or he supported these protesting peacefully. She mentioned the nation will need to have criminal-justice reform and tackle systemic racism.
The principle U.S. stock gauges
DJIA,
+0.56%
principally completed with beneficial properties on Thursday, with the S&P 500
SPX,
+0.16%
notching a contemporary document shut whereas the Nasdaq Composite
COMP,
-0.34%
pulled again.
