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Fri Oct 30, 2020, 06:40 AM Oct 2020

New audio tapes show how Trump bet against science





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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/29/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-coronavirus/index.html



New audio tapes show how Trump bet against science


Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Updated 1838 GMT (0238 HKT) October 29, 2020



(CNN)The failed bet laid by President Donald Trump to ignore science and prioritize his political goals early in the pandemic, revealed Wednesday in fresh detail by new Jared Kushner tapes, is backfiring in devastating fashion at the critical moment of his reelection bid.


Dark warnings by scientists and new data showing a nationwide explosion in a virus Trump says is going away, crashing stock markets and real-time examples of the White House's delusions about its failed response are consuming the President as tens of millions of early voters cast judgment.


Democratic nominee Joe Biden, leading in the polls with five days of campaigning to go, is accusing the administration of surrendering to the virus and offering to shoulder the nation's grief in the grim months to come.

The extent to which the country's worsening trajectory has overtaken the final days of the campaign emphasizes how the election has become a personal referendum on Trump and how he mishandled the worst domestic crisis in decades...................................
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