Wednesday, February 24, 2021

COVID was 'best thing ever' for Biden's campaign, aide admits

The COVID-19 pandemic that hit America just as the 2020 presidential election campaign got underway was the "Best thing" ever to happen to Joe Biden's third effort to become president, according to one of his aides.

It was Washington powerbroker Anita Dunn who said, "COVID is the best thing that ever happened to him [Biden]," according to a report in the Guardian about a new book, "Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency."

There have been hundreds of millions of COVID-19 cases around the globe, and some 2.5 million deaths, including the 500,000 plus deaths in the U.S. Did Joe Biden use the coronavirus to help him win the White House?

As the pandemic capsized Trump along with the economy Biden, through a much more cautious approach to campaigning and basic public health concerns, appealed to voters as the right man to manage a recovery.

"Trump sought to hammer Biden for 'hiding in his basement' - a reference to Biden's decision to rarely leave home in Wilmington, Delaware, instead campaigning virtually while the president held rallies and ignored public health guidelines."

The Washington Examiner pointed out the comment, "At a time when the United States was struggling with rising death tolls, a shattered economy, and a health system close to breaking," could be "Seized on by Biden's critics that his campaign used the suffering of the public in the opportunistic pursuit of power."

The report said, "That private thinking reflects what many political analysts said at the time, that the rampant pandemic undermined then-President Donald Trump's solid economic achievements and standing in national and battleground state opinion polls."

https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/covid-best-thing-ever-bidens-campaign-aide-admits/ 

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