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Laura Ingraham tried to get Dr. Fauci to trash @JoeBiden's response to Trump's vague new plan. It didn't go well.

That's funny. But I took a closer look. Biden also called on Trump to dramatically ramp up testing. Ingraham left that part out.

New piece:
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@JoeBiden Trump's propagandists have a huge problem.

They need to minimize coronavirus to get the economy reopened on Trump's reelection schedule.

But they *also* need to make it look as if they...aren't minimizing coronavirus.

Those things can't be reconciled:

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@JoeBiden Here's the bottom line.

To reopen the economy safely, we need a far more robust federal testing plan.

That's the core disagreement between Biden and Trump right now.

Biden is listening to experts. Trump/Fox are trying to make this reality disappear:

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@JoeBiden Here's the part of what Joe Biden said that Laura Ingraham left out, and oddly didn't ask Dr. Fauci to respond to.

It shows the true nature of the dispute between Biden (backed by experts and governors) and Trump (backed by Fox News personalities):

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We are shockingly far from having anything close to the testing regime we need to reopen safely.

I had a very sobering conversation about what's needed with @DrTomFrieden, a top expert.

The consequences of falling short are terrifying. Our interview:
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@DrTomFrieden Some highlights from our interview:

@DrTomFrieden tells me we need to *triple* our daily testing just to get to the point where we're testing high priority cases.

To really be safe, we'd be testing all admitted to hospitals. But that's far away indeed:

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@DrTomFrieden This is highly troubling.

@DrTomFrieden points out we don't have a clear sense of what percentage of people with Covid-like symptoms admitted to hospitals are even getting tested.

"There are more people who have symptoms every day than there are tests."

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Trump has decided casting immigrants as bearers of the coronavirus threat will help reelect him.

But this sort of demagoguery has failed in a remarkable number of losing GOP campaigns since 2016.

Here's the full rundown, via a new @AmericasVoice report:

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@AmericasVoice "An endless sewage gusher of GOP ads have featured rapists, murderers, tattooed MS-13 members, and dark hordes storming the border. These failed in rural and pro-Trump districts, in swing states, and in the reddest of red states — in short, everywhere."

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@AmericasVoice Also in this piece:

Trump's new suspension of immigration reeks of fraudulence.

I talked to the folks at @MigrationPolicy about how it would really work.

The details badly undermine the idea that this will protect US workers:

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Trump's new immigration ban is a monumental scam. It won't address the ongoing spread of coronavirus, which *he* allowed to rage of control. The suggestion that US workers will benefit is a complete misdiagnosis of our current economic calamity. New piece:
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“We should be thanking immigrant (and native-born) workers for maintaining food production, health care, and every other essential service still in action.”

@econjared, to me. As he says, the new ban completely misdiagnoses our current travails:

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@econjared Trump's new immigration ban again shows that he views coronavirus as a *foreign* enemy.

That's why he keeps hyping his China travel ban. But that cannot erase the catastrophic record of failure that followed from Trump once it had been unleashed *here.*

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