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]]>CNN anchor Jake Tapper predicted a “narrowing in the polls” Thursday night after what he described as a “disciplined” Republican Convention speech from President Trump.
Tapper, who is usually an outspoken critic of the president, began by stressing Trump’s “shattering” of U.S. political norms, noting that using the White House grounds as a convention venue may have violated the Hatch Act.
“You saw this evening and in the last four nights the view of the world from Planet Trump, the view of the world as the president wishes it were,” Tapper said. “He has talked about the world and the pandemic as almost it is over in terms of the event and how he’s holding this event. A pandemic event — nobody was social distancing with a crowd of 1,500 [to] 2,000 individuals, very few masks, no mass testing. It was as if we were not in the middle of a deadly pandemic, which is, of course, what the president wishes were the case but is not the case.”
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Tapper then stressed that the country witnessed a “filtered” President Trump throughout the convention, noting how he mostly stuck to the teleprompter with very few ad-libs.
“That is the Trump that White House officials and campaign officials wish they had all the time, one who is not sending tweets that upset people, one who is not making comments that upset people when he ad-libs,” Tapper explained. “And I think it’s important to note that I do expect there to be some sort of narrowing in the polls after this rather filtered week, but we still have many days to go and we’ll see if the president is able to stay as disciplined.”
Tapper’s colleague Dana Bash agreed, calling the term ‘disciplined’ a ‘good word for it,’ adding that what voters saw was “Teleprompter Trump” and comparing his speech to a State of the Union address.
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“He’s doing what he has to do, not what he wants to do when it comes to what he is saying,” Bash said. “He delivered the kind of speech that his advisers have been desperate for him to be doing when it comes to the strategy for him to win reelection and more importantly, to do that by really throwing the toughest punches as he possibly can against Joe Biden.”
She went on to call Trump’s attacks against Biden the president’s “strongest” and most “robust” attempt to define his Democratic rival.
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]]>CNN anchor Jake Tapper took Assistant Secretary of Health Adm. Brett Giroir to task over the continuing issues with coronavirus testing, asking the coronavirus testing czar if he is “afraid” of bringing these problems up with President Donald Trump.
During a contentious 20-minute interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, Tapper repeatedly pressed Giroir on the weeklong delays in coronavirus testing results Americans are experiencing.
“Are you happy where testing is right now?” Tapper asked, prompting Giroir to say he’s “never going to be happy” until they have the pandemic under control.
While acknowledging that testing is still not where it should be, the HHS official went on to tout the progress the administration has made over the past few months, adding that half of the tests conducted have turnaround times of less than 24 hours.
“The delays that most people talk about are at the large commercial labs that perform about half the testing in the country,” he said. “Now, the data are, the average turnaround is 4.27 days.”
The CNN anchor brought up former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s criticism of the administration’s handling of the pandemic, specifically the poor turnaround times on testing. In an op-ed earlier this month, Mulvaney said the long waits for results were “inexcusable” while citing his own family’s experience.
At the same time, Tapper repeatedly grilled Giroir on the president’s promises when it came to testing and getting the virus, which has now killed nearly 150,000 Americans, under control.
“In March, President Trump said, falsely, anyone who wants a test can get a test,” the veteran anchor pressed. “At what point will it be true, sir, that anyone who wants a test will be able to get one with a quick turnaround so as to be effective. When will that be true?”
Giroir, meanwhile, claimed that it’s “true now” that anyone who “needs a test can get a test,” adding that he’s “highly confident” that turnaround times will decrease this week based on advances they’ve made.
Tapper also pushed the public health official on the administration’s use of the Defense Production Act to ramp up production on masks and ventilators, wondering aloud why the White House wasn’t using it more forcefully on testing. This led to the CNN host asking whether this was due to an unwillingness to upset the president.
“There seems to be this reluctance to push the president to do what he needs to do to get the testing up to speed,” Tapper declared. “I know that he’s under the misguided impression that more testing is bad and makes him look bad, which as you know is completely false.”
“And I’m wondering if you and others are just afraid to do this because you don’t want to upset him, afraid to ask him to do what he needs to do to invoke the DPA to force the federal labs to get up to speed to where we need to be so that we can isolate the virus, as you know,” he added. “Are you afraid to bring this up to President Trump because it will upset him?”
Giroir, for his part, denied that this was the case, claiming that tough issues and problems are brought up openly with Trump and the administration.
“Everyone of the administration understands the importance of testing,” he claimed. “Nobody in the task force is afraid to bring up anything to the vice president or the president.”
“Every time I’ve met with the president, he’s been listening to all the data, he assesses that, he understands it,” Giroir continued. “I meet with the vice president almost every single day. No one is trying to stop testing in this country. No one has ever told me to do that. We want more, we want better, we want quicker.”
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]]>CNN anchor Jake Tapper offered a rare defense of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany after many members of the media, including his own network colleagues, spread a misleading quote from Thursday’s press briefing.
McEnany reiterated President Trump‘s strong stance on wanting children to be going back to school in the fall amid a fiery debate about how educators can prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
“The science should not stand in the way of this, but as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote, ‘Of course, we can do it. Everyone else in the Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here,'” McEnany said, quoting the former Stanford Medical Center neurology chief.
“The science is very clear on this. For example, you look at the JAMA pediatric study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than the seasonal flu. The science is on our side here. We encourage localities and states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools,” she continued.
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After playing a clip of that exchange on his show, Tapper corrected CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who knocked the press secretary for having an “alternative facts kind of moment.”
“If I could just say, Sanjay,” Tapper interjected. “I think she was just trying to say that the science shouldn’t stand in the way because the science is on our side. I don’t know that all of the science is on their side- and certainly, this White House, their respect for science knows bounds, let’s put it that way, but I think that’s what she was getting at.”
However, Dr. Gupta wasn’t the only CNN journalist to misinterpret McEnany.
CNN’s chief anti-Trump reporter Jim Acosta tweeted about what McEnany said by suggesting she was anti-science.
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“The White House Press Secretary on Trump’s push to reopen schools: ‘The science should not stand in the way of this,'” the liberal reporter tweeted.
Acosta later added, “McEnany went on to say ‘the science is on our side here.'”
His misleading tweet, though, went on to get nearly 40,000 retweets while his follow-up tweet that provided the much-needed context received less than 800.
Among those who shared Acosta’s initial tweet include CNN national security analyst Sam Vinograd, CNN contributor Paul Begala, CNN analyst Max Boot, and CNN analyst Brian Karem.
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CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, NBC News reporter Josh Lederman, The Guardian, and The Washington Post all similarly omitted McEnany’s actual support of the science.
Without directly addressing Acosta’s tweet, Tapper slammed the spread of the distorted quote urging everyone to “read the ENTIRE McEnany comment.”
“I’m not taking a position on the matter but be fair,” the CNN anchor wrote.
Earlier this week, “The Lead” anchor tore into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic after the Democrat debuted a poster touting his apparent accomplishments.
“New York’s Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo seems to be on something of a victory tour congratulating the state and himself for defeating the virus,” Tapper began before pointing to the poster filled with “inside jokes” that Cuomo is selling.
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“There are no illustrations, however, of the more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state. No rendering on that poster of the criticism that Governor Cuomo ignored warnings, no depiction of the study that he could have saved thousands of lives had he and Mayor De Blasio acted sooner, no painting of his rescinded order that nursing homes take all infected patients in,” the CNN anchor continued.
Tapper accused Cuomo of “revisionism” and “crowing,” which he insisted was “offending a lot of New Yorkers.”
CNN has largely refrained from offering critical coverage of Gov. Cuomo, brother of network anchor Chris, throughout the pandemic, largely ignoring the growing New York nursing home controversy that ties one of his directives to the deaths of thousands of senior citizens.
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