Repubs dishonestly insisting Trump deserves credit for a vaccine rollout Trump simply failed to do

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Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler
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Mar 12, 2021
TPM tackling the Sisyphean task of unbamboozling all the reporters who got bamboozled by Republicans dishonestly insisting they give Trump credit for a vaccine rollout Trump simply failed to do.

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
Who says Trump's "plan" was to leave vax distribution up to the states after the federal govt dropped them off at the airport? Trump!!! Here's a tweet from Dec 29, from the Trump twitter archive. Get the full story here https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-covid-vaccination-distribution-biden…


Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler
Trump’s “rollout” was like if FEMA dropped few tons of food and water at a truck stop in North Carolina after a hurricane and said “good luck with this stuff.” Biden came in, figured out the last mile and now Trumpers are saying “actually we did that.” But they’re complete liars.
4:56 PM · Mar 12, 2021

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1. TPM: "(Trump has) been aided...by the Washington Post and New York Times,

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both of which have run articles this week arguing that the speed-up in the vaccine rollout under President Biden only builds off of a plan put into place by Trump...contend(ing) that Trump is right: he had a plan to distribute the vaccine that Biden was lucky enough to inherit."
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But wait -- there's more:

Biden's big COVID bill proves a lot of his critics wrong

A new book...about Joe Biden's campaign for president is called Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency, which seems...(an) unnecessarily disparaging title...I haven't read the book but early reviews focus on the fact that nobody, even Biden's former boss Barack Obama and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton...thought he had a chance...

I don't know if the Democratic electorate had some sort of collective instinct or...as the title of the book implies, (it was) just a matter of luck, but...Biden, with his years of experience and what felt like calm, compassionate wisdom, rose to the top of the field and eventual victory...

So what is this all about -- the followup to Dr. Seuss-Gate as a weapon of mass media deflection? I suppose that Trump was "lucky" enough to have won the presidency without winning the popular vote in 2016. More people DID vote AGAINST Trump than for him, however -- and the same thing not only happened again in 2020, but by a margin twice as wide.

I suppose Biden WAS "lucky" that Trump DIDN'T inflate his popularity with his big lies, race-baiting, despotic management style, possible dementia -- oh, and escorting a half-million-casualty pandemic across the country. Which MIGHT explain why there were 26 million MORE voters in 2020 than in 2016, and why Biden was "lucky" enough that nearly sixty per cent of them sided with him...

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