Current Events > Democrats plan to argue Trump rolled over to China with Coronavirus response

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https://www.axios.com/dnc-memo-trump-biden-china-f914e9d1-37fd-48d0-b579-4f94d0e72b69.html?

In the coming weeks and months, Democrats plan to argue that President Trump "rolled over" for China as the coronavirus crisis worsened because "he sought a deal to begin undoing the damage caused by his trade policies," per a new memo reviewed by Axios.

Why it matters: Top Trump campaign officials said they'll paint Joe Biden as "soft" on China as a major line of attack during the 2020 race. The new memo by Democratic National Committee officials outlines a rebuttal as Biden prepares for the general election race against Trump.

This new memo is the sixth in a series called "In Focus: Trumps Disastrous Coronavirus Response."
Trump's campaign this month released a controversial digital ad bashing Biden as overly friendly and deferential to Beijing.

The president's team has sought to turn a critical focus on the former vice president's past posture toward China to counter criticism of Trump's handling of the coronavirus or approaches to China.
What they're saying: The DNC's War Room writes in the memo that it's an understatement to call Trump weak on China and that he "rolled over in a way that has been catastrophic for our country" and "put himself and his political fortunes first."

The memo quotes a NYT article describing internal disputes in the administration over dealing with China, trade talks and the virus.
It also cites Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and economic adviser Larry Kudlow talking about how the coronavirus might interfere with trade

This does not seem like a good rhetorical strategy, imo
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is China 2020 gonna be Russia 2016

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

is China 2020 gonna be Russia 2016

Yes

Dems know they lost but most of them are rich anyway from corporate sponsorship so they don't care.

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It's like they enjoy losing

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Lmfao

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Trump has been hyping up how we're losing to China since before 2016.

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https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732
Ah, found it.

seriously though, fuck china

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This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

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EnterTheTekken posted...

This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

It's a campaign strategy. It doesn't need to make sense or even have a basis in reality. It just needs to be catchy enough to stick.

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EnterTheTekken posted...

This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

Dont post that here, Democrats dont like being reminded of wrongdoings.

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EnterTheTekken posted...

This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

Politicians flip flopping? Must be another day that ends with y
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EnterTheTekken posted...

This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

His "ban" was a complete joke. Many, many exemptions, and no studies say that it did anything but slightly delay the spread. Not decrease the amount of people/deaths. If it was an actual ban maybe, but he left plenty of loopholes to allow desirables to bypass it.

EnterTheTekken posted...

This narrative makes no sense considering how hard some notable Congressional democrats (AOC, Pelosi, Sanders, Biden) attacked the initial travel ban suggestion as xenophobic & racist.

thats a lie

Biden did criticize trump not for the travel ban itself but for being untrustworthy he said Trump wouldnt be a good leader during a pandemy because .....nobody trusts him
to tell the truth
other stuff i found was about how useless the ban was because the virus was already out of china because tby the time trump mentioned a ban 300.000 traveled from china

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https://twitter.com/MollyNagle3/status/1251578115740053507


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Surely this will be a winning strategy
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That's dumb

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Out of everything to attack Trump over during his pandemic handling, this is what they are going to focus on?

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This sounds like something Biden would come up with

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Mecha Sonic posted...

seriously though, fuck china

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Bad.

Just roll the ads where Trump says its "the dems new hoax" and "one day it will be like a miracle it will disappear"

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I truly wish there was a viable third and fourth party.

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