GOP had planned to go on the offense against Joe Biden

[UCmeNdc]

At issue were plans by the Republican Party to make China a central issue as the 2020 election heated up, blaming one of the United States’ largest trading partner for the coronavirus pandemic — while also linking the country to former Vice President Joe Biden who is expected to the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.

“The strategy could not be clearer: From the Republican lawmakers blanketing Fox News to new ads from President Trump’s super PAC to the biting criticism on Donald Trump Jr.’s Twitter feed, the G.O.P. is attempting to divert attention from the administration’s heavily criticized response to the coronavirus by pinning the blame on China,” the report begins. “Republican senators locked in difficult races are preparing commercials condemning China. Conservatives with future presidential ambitions of their own, like Senators Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, are competing to see who can talk tougher toward the country where the virus first emerged. Party officials are publicly and privately brandishing polling data in hopes Mr. Trump will confront Beijing.”



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/republican-leaders-furious-with-trump-for-blowing-up-their-key-campaign-talking-point-before-the-2020-election-report/

[Iliyah]

1. And yet don't the t-rumps have sweat shops in China . .

Don't they also have patents from China . . . .

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Dem backed Pace are already on the offense against Trump.

And they are devastating for Trump.

Just saw an anti-McConnell PAC ad.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. China may be where this virus originated, but the utter failures of this administration in handling

this outbreak is really the crime here. We have had outbreaks before, the swine flu, the H1N1 virus, the ebola virus, etc., and all these republican nuts can think of is blaming others for their dismal failures in handling the CV that is already here in the US, not those cases raging in China.

Talk about typhoid Mary, we should be talking about 'coronavirus Trump' and his failures on all fronts, in protecting this country (hint, he didn't).

[OnDoutside]

4. As least they've moved from Ukraine...I wonder why ?

[uponit7771]

7. +1,

[scarletwoman]

5. All the Dems need to do to fight back is play all the clips of Trump in Jan. & Feb. praising China.

Whoever does ads for Dems needs to keep pounding on Trump's bullshit and incompetence using his own words.

[Hortensis]

6. And they are. DesertRat posted this Jeannine Piro rant:

Link to tweet

Yup. Feel the rage. Be the rage.

[Vinca]

8. Biden needs to run ads on Fox News - especially if the GOP candidates do.

[uponit7771]

10. +1, where's Bloomberg?

[rockfordfile]

11. NO. That would be a waste

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, this is a base message first they must be bleeding to some degree. NO ONE in their right mind

... is going to place onus on a person who was not in power in this situation.