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Ex-GOP Strategist Says Two Tweets Could Doom Trump In November

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren was surging in the 2020 Democratic primary, Sen. Kamala Harris attacked her during one of the debates for not wanting to urge Twitter to suspend President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. But one of the best arguments against suspending that account is that Trump’s tweets give Democrats ammunition to use against him — and Never Trump conservative Tim Miller, in a new article for The Bulwark, argues that Democrats could doom Trump’s campaign with tweets from earlier this year: one from Trump, the other from Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.

Warren and Harris, of course, have dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary — which now consists of only two candidates: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden. And Miller (who served as communications director to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush) asserts that Biden, assuming he is the nominee, could use screenshots of a Murphy tweet from February 5 and a Trump tweet from March 9 to make the case that Trump let his country down horribly during the coronavirus pandemic.

On February 5, both Murphy and Trump were well aware of intel warnings about the deadly potential of coronavirus — which, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, had killed more than 45,000 people worldwide as of early Wednesday afternoon, April 1. But that horrifying figure is low compared to the figures that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr.  Deborah Birx (two key members of Trump’s coronavirus task force) have stressed this week. Even with aggressive social distancing measures, they warned that coronavirus could, in the weeks ahead, kill 100,000-240,000 people in the U.S. alone. Without social distancing, the death toll could be even worse. Continue reading.

 

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