GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus

[Formerly Once-Ler]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/gop-memo-anti-china-coronavirus-207244

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has sent campaigns a detailed, 57-page memo authored by a top Republican strategist advising GOP candidates to address the coronavirus crisis by aggressively attacking China.

The memo includes advice on everything from how to tie Democratic candidates to the Chinese government to how to deal with accusations of racism. It stresses three main lines of assault: That China caused the virus “by covering it up,” that Democrats are “soft on China,” and that Republicans will “push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic.”

more at link including a link to the memo

https://static.politico.com/80/54/2f3219384e01833b0a0ddf95181c/corona-virus-big-book-4.17.20.pdf

[Formerly Once-Ler]

The document urges candidates to stay relentlessly on message against the country when responding to any questions about the virus. When asked whether the spread of the coronavirus is Trump’s fault, candidates are advised to respond by pivoting to China.

“Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban — attack China,” the memo states.

Come November, Republicans be like "Who is this Trump?"

[skeeter]

The truth is what it is.

Likewise, if some guilty republicans are swept up in the dragnet by accident then so be it.

[catfish1957]

The entire whole world needs to hold these Chicom bastards accountible for unleashing the worst pandemic of the last 100 years.

Any semeblence of a decent Public Health System, and (cough cough) WHO intervention and support should have contained it. 

[PeteS in CA]

China's lies killed many tens of thousands. That's the simple truth.

The Dems repeatedly hindered and attacked Trump's measures to restrict travel from and to China. That's the simple truth.

Dem pols encouraged people to party hearty and go on about their normal lives while the Trump Administration was trying to limit the coronavirus epidemic. That's the simple truth.

On another tack, "Assault" is the kind of tendentious, biased wording that demonstrate how biased outlets like Politico are. Republicans Pounce!