As president, the first step I will take will be to get control of the virus that’s ruined so
many lives. Because I understand something this president doesn’t.
We will never get our economy back on track, we will never get our kids safely back
to school, we will never have our lives back, until we deal with this virus.
The tragedy of where we are today is it didn’t have to be this bad.
Just look around.
It’s not this bad in Canada. Or Europe. Or Japan. Or almost anywhere else in the
world. The President keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting
for a miracle. Well, I have news for him, no miracle is coming.
We lead the world in confirmed cases. We lead the world in deaths.
Our economy is in tatters, with Black, Latino, Asian American, and Native American
communities bearing the brunt of it. And after all this time, the president still does not
have a plan.
Well, I do.
If I’m president on day one we’ll implement the national strategy I’ve been laying out
since March.
We’ll develop and deploy rapid tests with results available immediately.
We’ll make the medical supplies and protective equipment our country needs. And
we’ll make them here in America. So we will never again be at the mercy of China
and other foreign countries in order to protect our own people.
We’ll make sure our schools have the resources they need to be open, safe, and
effective.
We’ll put the politics aside and take the muzzle off our experts so the public gets the
information they need and deserve. The honest, unvarnished truth. They can deal with
that.
We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask-not as a burden, but to protect each
other.
It’s a patriotic duty.
In short, I will do what we should have done from the very beginning.
Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to this nation.
He failed to protect us.
He failed to protect America.
And, my fellow Americans, that is unforgivable.
As president, I will make you this promise: I will protect America. I will defend us
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