Biden: 'Reopening Schools Safely Is A 'National Emergency', Great Speech

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- Biden: 'Reopening Schools Safely Is A 'National Emergency' MSNBC. Sept. 2, 2020, speech in Wilmington, Del.
Joe Biden called the efforts needed to reopen schools safely amid the coronavirus pandemic a "national emergency" and slammed the Trump administration's handling of the situation.

-> NBC News, 'Biden Says U.S. Schools Facing 'National Emergency' Because of Trump's 'Failures,' Sept. 2, 2020.
Joe Biden on Wednesday said U.S. schools are facing a "national emergency" as they struggle to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic, pinning the blame squarely on President Donald Trump. "Let me be clear: if President Trump and his administration had done their jobs, America's schools would be open," Biden said in a speech from Wilmington, Delaware. "Instead, America's families are paying the price for his failures."

"President Trump may not think this is a national emergency but I do," Biden added. "Protecting our students, our educators, and our communities. Getting our schools open safely and effectively - this is a national emergency," he said. Biden said that if he were president, he would direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make sure that all K-12 schools received "full access to disaster relief and emergency assistance funds" that would allow them safely reopen and operate during the outbreak...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-says-u-s-schools-facing-national-emergency-because-trump-n1239104

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1. Biden's SUBLIMINAL message...This election is a referendum on Donald Trump....

By making COVID-19 front and center to not only National Security, the Economy, but to the Law and Order necessary to protect Americans. Joe Biden is brilliantly tying COVID to everything important to Americans. Putting Trump in a corner like this will eventually tell voters, Trump does not see the bigger picture.

This is how Joe wins over those still undecided, Indepemdents, and disaffected Republicans.

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2. Good video - worth watching

It's longer than the clip. There's a transcript here:
[link:https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-reopening-schools-speech-transcript-september-2|]

Here's the part from the clip:

Vice President Joe Biden: (04:27)
Protecting our students, our educators, our communities, getting our schools open safely and effectively, this is a national emergency, but President Trump still doesn’t have any real plan for how to open our schools safely, no real plan for how to help parents feel secure for their children. He’s offering nothing but failure and delusions.

Vice President Joe Biden: (04:54)
From the start to finish, the American families and our children are paying the price for his failures; failure to take this virus seriously early on in January and February and it spread around the globe, failure to take steps we needed back in March and April to get this pandemic under controlled institute widespread testing and tracing to control the spread, failure to provide clear national science-based guidelines to state and local authorities, and failure to model even basic responsibility like socially distancing and wearing a mask, and failure to make sure educators and administrators have the equipment, the resources, and the training they need to open safe and under the circumstances we find now.

Vice President Joe Biden: (05:44)
Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, Secretary DeVos, haven’t stepped up and we’re all seeing the results. Millions of students are now starting the new school year in the same way they finished the last one, at home. At home. Parents are doing their best, but more and more, were finding themselves at wit’s end, struggling to balance work and childcare and educational duties, or worrying about their lost paycheck and how they’ll make ends meet while trying to keep their kids on track with remote learning.

Vice President Joe Biden: (06:23)
Educators are taking on countless hours of additional training to learn how to use remote learning tools so they can still be there for their students, but they’re worried about all the kids who used to count on our schools, all those children who need it so badly, and particularly those children who need more than the education and they provide their meals and safe places to spend the day.