Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden‘s (D) campaign team slammed the Republican National Convention as they criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic.
On Wednesday, Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager and communications director, released a statement focused on some of the remarks made during the second night of the convention.
Bedingfield highlighted White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow’s past-tense reference to the virus as she argued that his words suggest the Trump administration does not understand the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.
She also slammed the convention and its participants for failing to provide the American people with a plan to combat the coronavirus.
“Not only did the American people hear no plan for overcoming the pandemic for the second consecutive night of the RNC — after more than seven months of utter mismanagement — but the president’s chief economic adviser even referred to the coronavirus in the past tense,” Bedingfield said.
Another statement from the BIDEN campaign on what they're calling "Donald Trump’s Alternate Reality Convention": pic.twitter.com/ARRTmx7WBW
— Alex Miller (@AlexMillerNews) August 26, 2020
Bedingfield took aim at the RNC as she insisted they are painting a picture of “an alternate reality.” According to Bedingfield, the RNC focused on a delusion that differs drastically from the reality of COVID-19’s impacts on America.
She added, “President Trump’s RNC is an alternate reality. In this delusion, thousands of Americans didn’t die in the last week from COVID-19, nor have millions of Americans been infected or put out of work. Our economy hasn’t ground to a halt and our kids aren’t being kept home from school.”
On Tuesday, the Trump campaign released its second-term agenda calling for a “return to normal” promising “10 million new jobs in 10 months.”
Bedingfield’s latest remarks come as the coronavirus continues to spread in states across the country. As of Wednesday morning, the United States is approaching 6 million confirmed coronavirus cases. The death toll has also topped 180,000.
