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Biden just released a tough new ad hitting Trump for leaving us "exposed" to China.

That's good, but let's add more:

Trump didn't praise China to save his trade deal. He did it to prop up the epic lie that the virus was under control here.

New piece:
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The idea that Trump praised China's handling of coronavirus to preserve his trade deal misses the truly depraved nature of what really happened.

His praise of China was central to sustaining the monstrous lie that we didn't have to worry about it here.

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One last point. Biden might consider leaning harder into an expansive defense of reality-based multilateralism, and contrast that with Trump's insane effort to defund the World Health Organization and his ludicrous performative nationalism:

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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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