Battling over vaccines, Democrats and Republicans show they are light years apart when it comes to vaccines as a political fight. Former President Joe Biden, 78, missed his target of getting 70% of the U.S. population vaccinated before July 4, with vaccine rates waning as adverse side effects hit the headlines. Former President Donald Trump, 78, said more people have suspicion over vaccines because they didn’t trust the 2020 election results. Trump has told his following what Democrats and the press call “the big lie,” that the Nov. 8, 2020 election results was rigged. Election officials and U.S. courts, including Trump’s former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr, said there was no significant fraud found, enough to alter Biden’s Nov. 8 victory. Whether Biden missed his 70% target of not, 68% of the U.S. population have received at least one shot, with 161 million receiving both shots.
Most voters think that Biden has done a better job than Trump managing the Covid-19 crisis, despite the fact that because of Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, vaccines exist at all. Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris have never given Trump one lick of credit, pushing hard to get vaccines developed right after the election. Biden told voters while running for president in 2020 that it was highly doubtful that vaccines would be completed by around the Nov. 8, 2020 election. Trump consistently told voters that he believed vaccines would be ready with days of the election. Pfizer announced the first vaccine one week after the election, something Trump insisted would be out close to the presidential election. True to Trump’s predictions, the Pfizer and Modern vaccines came out within one week of each other. Biden and Harris told voters before the election to not trust any of Trump’s vaccines.
Watching growing number of vaccinated adults get Covid-19 gives young people reason to doubt the vaccines. Recent headlines about mRNA vaccines causing myocarditis or heart inflation didn’t help vaccine skeptics considering the vaccine but driven aw away by scaru side effects. “Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he’s doing on the distribution of the Vaccine . . . He’s not doing well at all,” Trump wrote in tweemail. “He’s way behind schedule, and people are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration, they don’t trust the Election results and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth.” When it comes to taking the vaccine, there are more conspiracy-oriented types in the GOP than the Democrat Party, accounting for why some Republicans have a difficult time trusting the government about vaccines.
Democrats and the press insist that Trump’s “big lie” led to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, with Trump supporters thinking they were robbed of the winning vote. When Trump talks about a rigged election, he’s not talking about nefarious vote-switching, where precinct workers add illicit ballots in different precincts. Trump was clear about his opposition to universal mail-in ballots, where millions of ballots were counted without verifying signatures, let alone other voter identity. Battling with Democrats in Congress, the GOP wants to ban universal mail-n ballots, believing it gives resgistered Democrats about a 25% advantage. Democrats insist that any attempt to ask for voter ID is an act of voter suppression. Former 47-year-old Majority Leader in the Georgia House Stacy Abrams says any attempt by Republicans to ask for voter ID is an act of re-imposing Jim Crow laws, the ultimate voter suppression.
Democrats and the press have hit Trump with everything but the kitchen sink in recent days with the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC churning more fake news about Trump trying to stage a coup Jan. 6. How ironic that nine House impeachment managers couldn’t prove their case of “incitement of insurrection” in the U.S. Senate Feb. 13, the latest high-crimes-and-misdemeanors. Yet the fake news continues to uncover new leaked Pentagon documents indicating that Trump was trying to topple the U.S. government. While the fantastic idea was rejected in the U.S. Senate, it’s alive and well in the U.S. press, the most corrupt industry in the United States. Quoting Trump’s 63-year-old former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Mark Milley in the Trump-hating Washington Post shows the extent of the press corruption when it comes to former President Trump.
All the news fake news stories started when Trump won the Conservative Political Action Committee [CPAC] straw poll July 12, showing that Trump’s popular with American conservatives. Watching the press go to work against Trump shows for all to see how the demonization goes on. Whatever the differences between Democrats and Republicans on taking Covid-19 vaccines, the differences are even starker when it comes to the media. Harvard University study showed that the media is 98% against Trump, reporting largely negative news. Negative publicity on Trump over a four years period killed his approval ratings, ultimately leading to his defeat Nov. 8. Republicans need to know that if Trump ever runs again, the same press demonization will go on, regardless of what’s right. When it comes to Trump, there’s no limit to Democrats and the press’s disinformation and propaganda.
