Vice President Mike Pence defended comments from President Trump and his supporters accusing Democrats of politicizing the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
On Friday, Trump told a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally in South Carolina that the coronavirus was the Democrats'"new hoax" to use against him – the same term he used for the investigation into Russian election interference and his impeachment. The next day,
"Anything that they can use to try to hurt Trump, they will," Trump Jr. told Fox News."For them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump's streak of winning is a new level of sickness." Pence pointed to a New York Times column written by Gail Collins that suggested the illness should be called the"Trumpvirus.""To have someone advocate that you rename the coronavirus the Trumpvirus is reckless and irresponsible," Pence responded.
"Washington D.C. has just become reflexively critical of this president at every turn," he said."The opposition to this president for the last three years has been unprecedented in my lifetime."Trump's visit to India last week Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the health care committee, said the administration's request was"totally inadequate."
Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign said the administration's handling of the virus was"inadequate, misleading, and dangerous."
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