Harris: Trump’s handling of Covid “the greatest failure of any presidential administration”

Washington,(ST)- Kamala Harris opened the presidential debate by honing in on Mike Pence and the Trump administration’s greatest vulnerability: The handling of the coronavirus.

 “The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country,” Harris said at the outset of the debate before attacking the Trump administration for obscuring the facts around the virus.

Citing interview done between Trump and Bob Woodward at the outset of the virus where the President said he wanted to minimize the virus, Harris said, “They knew what was happening, and they didn’t tell you. Can you imagine if you knew on January 28, as opposed to March 13, what they knew, what you might have done to prepare? They knew and they covered it up.”

Harris added: “They minimized the seriousness of it.”

Coronavirus will likely be the most important issue at the debate, both because of the way it has reshaped American life and the fact that Trump is still in the White House recovering from the disease.

Harris said that the Biden administration would focus on “contact tracing, testing, administration of the vaccine, and making sure that it will be free for all.”

“That is the plan that Joe Biden has and that I have, knowing that we have to get ahold of what has been going on,” Harris concluded.

Source: AFP-Haifaa Mafalani