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As President Trump’s re-election project and a top pro-Trump extremely PAC step up efforts to paint Joe Biden as soft on China, the former vice president, his campaign, and an allied group are fighting back, highlighting Trump’s duplicated appreciation of China earlier this year for its response to the coronavirus break out.
” The uncomfortable reality is that Donald Trump left America exposed and susceptible to this pandemic,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee charged on Twitter Friday. “He neglected the warnings of health specialists and intelligence agencies and put his rely on China’s leaders instead. Now, we’re all paying the rate.”
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In an accompanying video, Biden stressed that the president matched Chinese President Xi Jinping’s actions handling the pandemic because “he was more anxious about protecting his trade handle China than he had to do with the infection that had currently pertained to America.”
The former vice president worried that “as I speak, Chinese is censoring research on COVID-19, making it harder for the rest of us to beat the virus. President Trump is not doing enough about it. The uncomfortable reality is that Donald Trump left America exposed and vulnerable to this pandemic.”
The pushback from Biden comes as Trump’s reelection project and allied groups step up efforts to paint Biden as soft on Beijing and as public opinion polling reveals an increasing portion of Americans upset at China’s handing of the coronavirus break out.
The worldwide pandemic come from China and Fox News has actually learned that the U.S. is carrying out a full-scale examination into whether the virus left from a laboratory in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak first appeared.
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” @JoeBiden has a China issue,” Trump 2020 project supervisor Brad Parscale tweeted on Friday. “Sleepy Joe is soft on China.”
At the very same time, the pro-Trump extremely PAC America First Action on Friday launched $10 million broadcast and cable, digital and direct mail project entitled “#BeijingBiden.” The group says their media effort will run through completion of May in the essential battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which directly went for Trump in 2016.
The group argues that Biden’s “been incorrect on China for 40 years” and their commercials utilize a clip of then-Vice President Biden speaking during a journey to China in 2011 stating, “I believed in 1979 and stated so and believe now an increasing China is a positive development.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D- Ohio– a top Biden surrogate– told reporters on a teleconference on Friday that “President Trump’s false attacks on Vice President Biden are just another effort to distract from the president’s failure to stand up to China for American employees and for more significantly and more instantly today his failure to prepare our country for the coronavirus pandemic.”
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The pro-Biden outside group American Bridge announced on Friday that they’re introducing a $15 million campaign to counter the America First Action ad. The group stated they’ll invest $2 million the next two weeks to run a commercial in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin targeting Trump.
” Everybody knew they lied about the infection. China. President Trump gave China his trust,” the narrator in the spot says.
The advertisement then uses a video from Feb. 7 of the president stating of China, “I think they’re doing a very good task.”
Trump consistently criticized his predecessor, Barack Obama– whom Biden worked as vice president– for obstructing the existing administration’s efforts to combat the coronavirus.
” Lots of administrations preceded me. For the most part, they did really little bit,” the president stated at a White House coronavirus instruction on March21 A day later Trump charged that “we inherited a broken, obsolete, system.”
Biden, in his video, pushed back against the president.
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” President Obama and I manage the launch of a program, literally called ‘Predict.’ It provided us early warnings for break outs in China and all over the world of this sort of disease,” Biden stated. “President Trump removed that program. We had a strong CDC existence in Beijing to sound the alarm when required. President Trump cut the variety of CDC staff in China by more than two thirds.”
Previous Obama administration foreign policy and national security advisor Tony Blinken– who’s advising Biden’s project– informed press reporters: “President Trump undid or undercut practically all the programs and people the Obama– Biden administration had actually put in place to prevent, identify, or deal with a pandemic coming from China.”
Fox News’ Madeleine Rivera added to this report
