Biden's virus attacks face harsh reality: worst death tolls are in Democrat-run states
Top three states for total and population-adjusted deaths are run by Democratic governors, state legislators.
By Daniel Payne
Updated: August 23, 2020 - 10:53pm
As Democrats and their presidential nominee Joe Biden gear up to attack the president's response to COVID-19, they must grapple with a harsh reality: a third of all U.S. coronavirus deaths occurred in just three states controlled exclusively by Democrats.
Biden has sharply criticized Trump's handling of the pandemic since the first case was confirmed in the U.S. in late January. The Democratic presidential candidate claimed last week that Trump has allowed the disease to ravage the country and kill more than 170,000 citizens.
"Just judge this president on the facts," Biden said during his acceptance speech during the Democratic National Convention. "Five million Americans infected with COVID-19. More than 170,000 Americans have died. By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth."
Biden's assessment is only partly factual. The U.S. has indeed recorded the highest total number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, but adjusted for population the nation falls to number 10, behind numerous countries in Europe and South America, including the United Kingdsom and Spain.
Perhaps more notably, more than a third of the American deaths Biden cited have occurred in the Democrat-run states of New York, New Jersey and California.
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