Biden ad rakes Trump over COVID response 4 years ago

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Source: The Hill

03/21/24 6:16 PM ET


President Biden’s campaign hit former President Trump over his handling of the COVID pandemic in a new ad on Thursday, answering his rhetorical question if Americans are better off now than four years ago with a resounding, ‘Yes.’

The ad opens to a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post last week urging voters to compare Biden’s administration to where the country was in March 2020, alongside news footage of empty grocery store shelves. It is interlaced with clips of Trump downplaying the then-nascent COVID pandemic, including his suggestion for people to inject disinfectant and claims that he was not responsible for the rapidly-increasing deaths from the virus.

The Biden campaign has latched onto four-year comparisons in recent weeks, with the onset of the virus in the U.S. reaching its fourth anniversary earlier this month. The president has doubled down on the position multiple times on campaign stops as well, hitting Trump in Dallas and Houston on Wednesday and Thursday.

“Speaking of Donald Trump, just a few days ago, he asked the famous question at one of his rallies: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Biden said at a Dallas event on Wednesday. “Well Donald, I’m glad you asked that question man because I hope everyone in the country takes a moment to think back when it was like in March of 2020,” he said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4547902-biden-ad-rakes-trump-over-covid-response-4-years-ago/

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[truthisfreedom]

1. I just watched the ad and it needs the question repeated at the end

Before it says YES. The idiot blathering is so distracting that the viewer might forget what the question was.

[woodsprite]

3. I agree. They should have restated the question because I even wondered for a split second.

"... They are dying. It is what it is. Yes." It definitely need the question restated.

[Think. Again.]

2. Go Joe!!! 🌊 !!!

[Wounded Bear]

4. Damn! Agree with the above comments, but this is where they need to go...

hammer trump on his record, again and again. It's March, they have months to refine the message further.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. good. 1.2 million dead. FU Orange Boy.

[bmichaelh]

6. Tried to get vaccine in early 2021

I tried to get a vaccine in early 2021 and was unable to do so.

It was reserved for medical care professionals only.

It I remember, Biden administration had to accelerate production of syringes.

The Trump administration did not adequately plan on rolling out the vaccine.

A vaccine is worthless without syringes.

[Marthe48]

8. A doctor in Mississippi made respirators out of garden hoses

Shipments of protective gear to hospitals got 'lost' I remember a hospital mislabeled its shipments to it it would make it to where it was supposed to go.

[2naSalit]

14. The fuckers sent...

Federal agents to confiscate an entire plane-load of PPE and respirators right at the airport. It was paid for by the state yet Kushner's goon squad came and took it, he sold it to someone else.

Never forget that part. -45 even threatened our governor for speaking out against the thievery.

[Native]

7. Brutal

[Martin68]

9. IMO, we should be constantly reminding the public of Trump's criminal negligence in responding to a national crisis

during the Covid epidemic. He was personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths that could easily have been avoided by following scientific medical advice. Instead of instituting life-saving policies, he was pooh-poohing the danger and recommending quack theories about clorox and chloroquine.

[0rganism]

10. If anyone's bored, the youtube comments section could use some TLC

K&R.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I just went there to check it out....

Half of the comments were incorrect and had misinformation about the economy. Total GQP regurgitated BS. i reported a couple for "misinformation".

[0rganism]

12. Thanks! I think the importance of comment sections often gets underestimated

I see it like a testing ground for talking/trolling points ineloquently rehashed by the Fox/Newsmax audience -- which ones get engagement, which engagements lead to easy wins, etc. Interesting to observe, I occasionally dip my toe in to see what happens. Some assertions should not go unchallenged, IMHO.

ETA: went back and it's hopeless now, just a bunch of sneerbots and trolls posting MAGA slogans.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I like to comment but sometimes

just "reporting" on the most idiotic comments is worth a shot. I'm surprised I wasn't given a warning by the You Tube police this week. Last week I was when I wrote that Ethan Crumbley's GOP parents deserve to go to jail for getting their crazy kid a gun. I suppose gun lovers were hurt by my comment. Oh well.

[Aristus]

15. I'm reminded of what some anonymous genius said about the vile, squalid Trump Era:

"It was as if a YouTube comments section had come to life and had decided to run for President."