Joe Biden campaign's latest target: Mike Pence
by Joseph Simonson, Political Reporter |
| July 02, 2020 04:43 PM
Joe Biden spends most of his time picking apart President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, but his campaign has quietly launched a new offensive against an unsuspecting target: Mike Pence.
Since June 1, the Biden campaign has issued 19 statements directed toward or including the vice president. On Thursday alone, the Biden campaign sent two press releases attacking him, with one singling out his trip to Tampa, Florida, to meet with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The other highlighted a column from liberal journalist EJ Montini in an Arizona newspaper, a state the Biden campaign is hoping to flip to the Democratic column in November.
“Here was Vice President Mike Pence in Arizona on Wednesday, a day when the state set new records for COVID-19 cases, 4,878, as well as deaths, 88, bringing Arizona’s totals to more than 84,000 cases and 1,720 known deaths, praising Gov. Doug Ducey for his leadership,†wrote Montini. “If, as Pence said, Arizona has seamlessly partnered with the Trump administration, then we are proof positive that the White House Coronavirus Task Force is totally incompetent. If not criminally negligent.â€
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