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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), when confronted with her previous criticisms of then-President Barack Obamas handling of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, claimed on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump is stepping forward in his response to the coronavirus pandemic thats now killed 130,000 Americans.
During the 2014 midterm elections, Ernst joined a chorus of Republicans who exploited the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa for political gain. Despite Obama deploying 3,000 service members to Africa to contain the virus, and only 11 confirmed cases and two deaths recorded in the United States, Ernst at the time accused the president of failed leadership on the disease.
Interviewing the Iowa senator on CNNs State of the Union, host Dana Bash brought up Ernsts past comments on Obamas Ebola response and asked if she would use the same words to describe how Trump has handled COVID-19.
Cases in your home state of Iowa have steadily risen for the last two weeks, Bash noted. You criticized President Obama in 2014 for his handling of the Ebola outbreak, saying that he showed failed leadership. Only two people in the U.S. died from Ebola. Right now there are almost 130,000 Americans dead from coronavirus. So if President Obama showed failed leadership then, do you think President Trump is showing failed leadership now?
Ernst, who is currently facing a tough re-election race, largely avoided the CNN hosts question, instead saying that everyone has responsibility in stopping the spread while somewhat downplaying the surge of coronavirus cases in her state by noting theyve seen one additional death in Iowa in the past 24 hours.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-sen-obama-failed-ebola-144402563.html
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)That is majority of the republicans in congress . .
They have gone from Patriots loving the Constitution to traitors.
ProfessorGAC
(64,988 posts)And, there were 21 deaths in 5 days. I don't trust her numbers.
Or her.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Bettie
(16,085 posts)and LOVES her some Trump
stopdiggin
(11,292 posts)So that covers for a lot of bumblef*ck, corndogs and bar-b-que!
(and -- she actually handled the interview fairly well. you can't exactly paint a smiley face on 130,000 -- so you side-step, and talk about responsibility and masks.)
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)oasis
(49,370 posts)Me Dipshit.