Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump has been relentlessly dishonest about the coronavirus pandemic. Here's a video breakdown of some of his important recent nonsense about the state of the crisis, about testing, and about ventilators: https://t.co/taG2sBNN8I — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump speaking about the election on Charlie Kirk's podcast: "And they're knocking down our monuments and they're knocking down our statues, they're knocking down all sorts of things. In the end, we're going to knock *them* down. We're going to win this." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: Pence’s dishonesty is more polished and more nuanced than Trump’s. But that was a really dishonest depiction of the pandemic si… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnaCabrera Thanks so much Ana. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Pence’s dishonesty is more polished and more nuanced than Trump’s. But that was a really dishonest depiction of the pandemic situation: https://t.co/CiL2USFb9I — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump didn’t attend today’s pandemic briefing — so Pence did Trump-style downplaying deception in his place. My breakdown of the VP’s rosy alternative reality: https://t.co/CiL2USFb9I — PolitiTweet.org

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@yowflier That’s great! I’m so glad they’re keeping the role, and you’ll be excellent. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump’s story that Biden is trying to use the pandemic to get out of debating him is completely imaginary. Biden has enthusiastically committed to the debates both in public comments and in a formal campaign letter to the debate commission on Monday: https://t.co/zjFm5ZOd3a — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden has committed to the three scheduled debates; Trump hasn’t. Biden and his campaign have explicitly said he wants them to happen even if COVID forces a change in format. Trump said on Fox that Biden is trying to use COVID to get out of debating. https://t.co/zjFm5ZOd3a — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: MCCONNELL : "I see various events on TV in which people are clearly not wearing masks, not taking this seriously, and not d… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @frankthorp: Holding a facemask at a press conference in KY, MCCONNELL again makes his pitch to wear masks to combat COVID: 'Until we fi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kevinroose: The #3 overall post on US Facebook today, with almost 200,000 shares, is a photo of a Vietnam War memorial vandalized by BL… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: —@PaulaReidCBS to Pence: "It really does sound like you're saying, 'Do as we say, not as we do.' You're telling people to… — PolitiTweet.org

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It is, obviously, not an infringement of Americans' constitutional rights for a candidate to not schedule arena events during a pandemic. https://t.co/kKFQSEO3D3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence: This is not a choice between health and the economy, since "there are profound health implications to the lockdowns through which we just passed." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Told that it's as if he's saying do as we say not as we do, given they held the Tulsa rally and an event at a packed church in Arizona, Pence sighs, then says freedom to peaceably assemble is in the Constitution and people don't forfeit that even in a health crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he expects deaths to rise too in the coming weeks, Pence says "our hope and our prayer is it's not the case." He notes that the number of daily deaths is significantly lower now than it was at the peak. — PolitiTweet.org

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...Pence says these states actually reopened long ago and had low #s. He claims that "what we're observing today" is that "we're seeing more and more young people, under the age of 35, who are testing positive," many of them asymptomatic. (Again: hospitalizations rising too.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if Texas and Florida did too much reopening too soon, Pence says, "I think there will be a temptation for people to look at the Sunbelt states that have been reopening and putting people back to work" and suggest that "has to do with what we're seeing," but...1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he's concerned that wearing a mask or not has become a political statement, and whether he has a message on masks, Pence says "the first principle is that people oughtta listen to their state and local authorities." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence: It's important to note that what we're seeing in the South is really "outbreaks," really outbreaks "in specific counties" or "specific communities." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence asked why they're holding rallies and other big events amid these warnings about the need for distancing: We have an election coming up, and we want to give "people the freedom to participate in the political process. And we respect that." — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence told that experts are stressing the importance of distancing yet their campaign has held rallies where people haven't worn masks. Pence: "Well, the freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble, is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States." — PolitiTweet.org

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CDC chief Redfield: It's our responsibility "to recommit ourselves" to staying six feet apart, "to wear face coverings when we're in public," and to wash our hands. — PolitiTweet.org

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Azar: Thanks to the leadership of Trump and Pence, "America has never been readier to combat COVID-19." — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci says he's making a "plea" to people, not only in currently-badly-affected states but elsewhere, to realize that everyone is vulnerable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci to young people: It's understandable you're going out in crowds and enjoying yourself, no blame, but if you get infected you're going to infect someone else who will infect someone else, and then ultimately someone who is vulnerable. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Fauci: Even if you feel fine, "a risk for you is not just isolated to you. Because if you get infected, you are part, innocently or inadvertently, of propagating the dynamic process of a pandemic. Because the chances are...that you're going to infect someone else." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Fauci says we don't have time right now, amid these problems, to lay blame or do too deep an analysis of what happened. https://t.co/Im5dXCIwST — PolitiTweet.org

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Fauci: "Maybe opening a little too early on some" could have contributed to some of the problems we're seeing now, "not actually following the steps in an orderly fashion," or trying to follow them but "the citizenry" didn't want to agree. — PolitiTweet.org