When 61-year-old Vice President and 55-year-old Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) face off tonight in Salt Lake City, it promises to be a more civilized affair while Kamala tries her best to itemize 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s failure in managing the coronaviurs AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis. Kamala plans to keep the heat on the White House, repeating talking points from former Washington Post journalist –turned-Democrat-political-hack Bob Woodward accusing Trump of “downplaying” the virus. When Trump appointed Pence head of the coronavirus task force Feb. 26, there were only a few deaths, the first one in the U.S. being Feb. 20. Woodward contented when he spoke to Trump Jan. 28, Trump “downplayed” the virus because he didn’t declare a national emergency. Woodward made up in his book thatTrump had psychic powers, knowing the future course of the virus.
Harris plans to hammer the Woodward narrative that’s become 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden’s talking points, blaming Trump for the 216,456 U.S. deaths as of today. But any close look at the epidemiology of the deadly novel coronavirus show that there’s nothing that could have slowed down the incidence. Biden and Harris campaign on a platform that had they managed the virus, the U.S. infection and death rates would have been dramatically lower than Trump. Biden and Harris’s talking points don’t have a shred of fact that Trump waited too long or did not do what was needed to protect the American public. Biden suggested recently that if the “scientists” tell him the economy must be shut down to save lives, he’d do it again. While locking everything down saves lives it also creates incredible collateral damage in U.S. financial markets.
Today’s recession was directly related to shutting to the economy nationally for about two months in April and May. Only a two-month shutdown caused lasting damage to the U.S. economy, plunging the stock market and driving the historic low unemployment rate of 3.5% to over 12%, tossing some 30 million workers out of their jobs. Harris will blame everything on Trump, repeating the exact phony message Woodward made in his Sept. 15 book, “Rage.” Trump getting Covid-19 Oct. 1 certainly reinforced Democrats’ message regarding Trump not taking the deadly virus seriously. But unlike Biden that’s been ultra-cautious, Trump’s tried to project a business-as-usual attitude, trying to get American consumers back in the stores. With so many businesses still shuttered in many states the economy continues to sputter, prompting the White House and Congress to deliver new stimulus.
Harris plans to dispute Pence’s handling of the Coronavirus Task Force, calling into question why the White House sidelined 80-year-old National Institutes of Health [NIH] Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci was sidelined by Trump for giving numerous interviews with the anti-Trump press, just about everyone, looking to attack the president in an Election Year. Fauci acts innocent but he’s actually a pro-Democrat, anti-Trump partisan, letting interviews discredit the president. Harris will do doubt raise the Fauci issue, pointing out that the American public trusts Fauci more than the president. Trump replaced Fauci with 65-year-old Stanford University Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Scott Atlas. Atlas differs with Fauci on the necessity of reopening schools, something more aligned with Trump’s views. Harris will slam Atlas as a novice, without Fauci’s credentials.
It’s doubtful Pence or Harris will be asked much about foreign policy, certainly no recent breakthroughs in Mideast peace and peace in the Balkans, with archenemies Serbia and Kosovo makeimg peace. Today’s corrupt and biased media has completely ignored Trump’s accomplishments, something that would ordinarily receive universal recognition and praise. Harris will do her utmost to stay laser focused on the Covid-19 crisis, forcing Pence to itemize White House successes. Contracting coronaviurs Oct. 1 and hospitalized for three days at Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump has made Biden and Harris’ case against him. While anyone can get the highly contagious virus, it was a bad optic to see the president and members of his inner circle contract the virus. Expect Pence to not yield and inch on the White House Covid-19 response, forcing Harris to go on the attack.
Harris will make the case tonight that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, is on the ballot, with Pence actively seeking to overturn a women’s right to choose. Harris will accuse Pence of overturning the Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare, trying to rob Americans of their health care during a pandemic. Harris will slam Trump and Pence for seeking to put pro-life Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the High Court to replace the late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Gisnburg. Harris will do her best to paint Pence as an opponent of women’s and gay rights, letting his evangelical proclivities rule his decisions, like Barrett, on public policy If Harris keeps Pence on the defensive, it’s going to be a long night for the otherwise genteel vice president. One thing about Kamala, she’s not afraid to take off the gloves and let it all hang out, like she did with Biden in the primaries.
