GOP Candidates Up For Re-Election Opt For Distance From Virus Response | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Some Republicans up for re-election in the fall are distancing themselves from the president's response to the coronavirus. Kasie Hunt discusses. Aired on 5/4/2020.
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GOP Candidates Up For Re-Election Opt For Distance From Virus Response | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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  1. I guess “We killed 70,000 Americans in two months!” doesn’t look good on a bumper sticker, huh?

    1. @Twisted Face 113 Republican/Democrat/Independent doesn’t make a difference,if you know the enemy is coming you don’t wait until they are at your door to do something about it

    2. Andrea Boggan , nice timeline to show he closed off China less than a week after first death. When on this timeline was Pelosi and Liberal media putting on a show in Chinatown saying Trumps a racist and the virus isn’t Chinese?

    3. @MC KO smh, Just stop being a moron. Why shouldn’t Pelosi assume it’s okay to have a Lunar New Year celebration when the President of the United States said “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine”?
      Was Pelosi supposed to assume Trump is a complete moron who has no idea what he’s doing? Are you seriously trying to blame her for believing Trump?
      Be less hypocritical!
      Pelosi didn’t get two classified intel briefings IN JANUARY warning of impending death and economic chaos. TRUMP DID. Trump IGNORED TEN WARNINGS in January and February from his OWN STAFF. Pelosi didn’t get those warnings, cuz she ain’t the president.

      You can’t put his on anyone but Trump.
      The buck doesn’t stop wherever you please. He’s the president. He ignored warnings. He lied to the public – over and over and over.
      Trump has killed 70,000 Americans. Not Pelosi. Trump. Studies show Trump could have prevented 90% of those deaths.
      But he chose not to.

  2. They should have politically distance when we tried to impeach him for all the other crimes he’s committed and lies he’s told….but they didn’t. Too late!

    1. SouthSide Chicago
      Hope you’re enjoying your massive tax cut.
      Graduated at trump university yet?
      Sad, sad individual. Your “LMAO” looks like mania.
      Enjoy

    2. @SouthSide Chicago wrong, get your facts straight. Tump lost bigly, the electoral collage was bought off.

    3. Christian Xander James : How to tell when a Trump troll is really, really upset, to the point of tears? They use, “LOL,” in a sentence 😉👍

    4. @SouthSide Chicago sounds like you listen fake news fox! No wonder you sound so ignorant and clueless!

  3. Yes…..and let’s not forget…or forgive…their actions during Trumps impeachment….

    1. @Chris Moseley he’s throwing his elderly voters under the bus. TEXAS is leaning towards Biden. Republican gerrymandering is huge in Texas and the regular folk want Biden. Your gonna need to update your spin troll

    2. @Ryan Rivard oh yeah? Is that what Beto got smashed 😂😂😂 you’re hella dumb

    3. @Chris Moseley guess we’ll see in November. I really think it’s special that you support Trump no matter what.

  4. The Dems need to hammer home the message that these guys have kept him in power with things like the sham impeachment hearing the Republicans gave him to let him out of responsibility. They have continuously supported him, and continuously lied to cover his problems….they have as much to do with this pandemic problem as Trump. They enabled him to stay in power and to abuse power.

  5. “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”
    ~George Orwell

  6. Senators, you can’t hide, we heard you vote to let him off the hook… We’re coming for you senators in November…

    1. Remember Issa and Gowdy who got chased out of congress spent days preventing democrats from bringing in people to question about Russian Collusion with the Trump campaign. Nunes and Collins need to be voted out.

    2. @Allan Gregory Trump said that ” hundreds of governors are calling him ” we only have 50 . Think about that.🤔 Take all the time you need. He also wanted to nuke a hurricane. 🤔 And you want to come at me for a little error and let him off of a lot of errors. 🤔

    3. These sellout senators didn’t realize back in January that their very rich businessmen constituents would lose money three months later.

  7. The GOPs new strategy:
    Social distancing for the coronavirus.
    Political distancing for Donald Trump.

    1. Warren Outley , oh I forgot to tell you that if you are excepting a stimulus check or unemployment welcome to socialism! If you were looking for your landlord to give you time to pay your rent or the energy companies to keep your lights on or your water on welcome to socialism! If you don’t like it well then you can leave and go somewhere like China or they definitely keep you as a capitalism let alone a dictatorship

    2. Kathy Franklund let’s not forget guaranteed public education, public transportation, fire departments, police departments, public libraries, every branch of the US military, roads and highways, social security, Medicare Medicaid, public prisons and jails, public hospital, public universities, public parks , public everything welcome to socialism

    3. @Kathy Franklund The landlord that kicks you out, and the utilities that shut you off, THEY are the capitalists. Money over people. Pure capitalism replaces basic human decency with greed.

    4. Warren Outley get out there your country needs you to be a hero and be sure to go to the Trump rallies

    5. @Warren Outley some of us have been deemed essential occupations. Because of that, I risk my health to take care of our society and it’s citizens. I make a middle class living and have adopted 3 families that have lost their sources of income. I do this because I believe that as community member and friend I have an obligation to care for those in my community who need help to survive. I am a lifelong republican and a Marine Corps veteran, if that makes me a socialist, then so be it. I simply in good conscience cannot allow people I love and care about to suffer.

  8. Need to get these people who voted not to impeach out of office too! They helped create the mess we are in.

    1. No that’s the democrats because they lost .democrat + virus+ china = communism

    2. God bless trump god bless america Talk some sense man for once in your soon to be short life if you follow trump’s advice ,please adhere to the chosen s ones teachings.Lets celebrate with a pint of Lysol.

    3. @red is for freedom blue is for losers clueless and ignorant chumpite! You make no sense just like chump! GTFOH!

  9. Get rid of them all. People who choose blind loyalty that takes precedence above their sense of humanity, humility, and honesty when they promised to serve the American people the moment they got into office has no place in government.

    1. Rosalie Hill You are spot on. Bruce Springsteen said in 1985, “Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.” Those words stuck with me. Sadly, the words came true .

    2. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and so many others we can start your list with there, Rosa

    3. Get rid of them all? How? “they” have been getting away with it for years now and no one has done a thing about it

    4. @Harry Smith we could if they actually held senate/congress seats, but they don’t. When I say get rid of I mean remove from office /fire them. I may be more left leaning in values but I do realize Democrats are just as guilty as Republicans and do not always have our needs at the fore. ALL of them need to go. How can people govern others when they are so far out of touch with the struggles the average American has to go through, the answer is they can’t because they can’t relate. Term limits…we need them badly.

    1. So people vote early or using absentee ballot to avoid very long line, machines breaking down, no back up plan when the machines do not work, We must clean house in the Senate of Republicans whom have allow Trump to do whatever he wants knowing that it is wrong. Because if the Republican still have full control of the Senate if a Democrat president is elected you can bet Moscow Mitch will do everything that he can to prevent anything from get done. Heck, Biden better by pass the confirmation process of getting who he wants and do just what Trump has done appointment all cabinet via acting whoever, heck it is the way to go to get things straighten out after the mess that Trump is leaving behind. Democrats have better use the same things that the Republican have allowed Trump to do appoint acting directors for every darn position and not worry about the Republicans complaining that the Democrats are doing something wrong. However, Mitch Mc Connell has been able to stack the courts with only conservative judges then Democrats need to do the same to create a balance in he courts. All the individuals whom were Democrats recent running for the presidency should now be looking at filling the Republicans senate seats that are coming up in the next elections. Democrats in leadership should be focus on supporting those individuals to run for both senate and house seats. Let see some good ads and messaging about what you Democrats are going to do to improve people lives and clean up the mess created by Trump and his minions.

    1. @Mdlclass Worker Meanwhile they stashed hundreds of millions on the side, maybe they have some trouble with legal “technicalities” . Ending up in supreme court where they’ll meet their lifetime nomineed buddies, the corrupt judges. Then their offspring, mostly named after daddy with the suffix jr. is to be sponsored by the same billionaire sponsors, the NRA ,to name one . The arms industry. The military contractors. Wall street buddies. The rich and the famous. The elite of America. And the show runs again. A rerun.

    2. @Feliciano Leon Perhaps, also expendable and disposable, but the OP had it right:
      adjective
      capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.

    1. Oh ya that is why you have no job and are locked down at home it’s all liberal governors imposing more Suffering … Not republicans

    2. @Warren Outley you mean the governor’s who had to do the federal government’s job and save lives…. yeah sure this November we will remember!

    3. They voted to acquit Trump *before the pandemic* and *before their rich Republican constituents started to lose lots of money due to the pandemic*

  10. Because republicans caved for party over country during the impeachment, they will get exactly what they deserve come election time.

    1. @Rebecca I bet trump will not relinquish power if he’s defeated. He’ll kick and scream as he’s dragged out of the Whitehouse.

    2. @Britney Nguyenthank you for the laugh. No one is talking about immigration or the wall anymore. Please update your BOT program

    3. @Ryan Rivard , as funny as it would be to see that, I truly hope it never comes to that with any President.

    4. @I Fight ChiLd MoLesters , I sure hope you are someone who deals with disappointment well.

  11. Moscow Mitch should be the first to go along with Susan Collins and the other dirt bags fleecing the USA.

    1. @Shirley Stanton Is he up for reelection? We can’t get rid of that cockroach soon enough either. I’ve voted GOP in other elections but I don’t see in my lifetime that I ever will again after this mess!

  12. that trump gets 43% in polling after three years of chaos and corruption shows you the staggering depth of american idiocy.

    1. @joris suffurt EXACTLY !! Hannity, Laura Ingram and Tucker Carson are the WORST !! Throw in the INSANE ” Judge Jennie” on Saturday and you have a cesspool of BAD news !!! They’re PERFECT EXAMPLES of media malpractice !!🤔🤷🤦😠

    2. It shows that Sean Hannity has major hypnosis like power over a sizeable bunch of America’s citizens.

    3. @Terry Hawkins Hannity, Ingram, Carlson, and Sinclair Broadcasting.
      Sinclair Broadcasting is like The Devil!

  13. Hey , Susan Collins. Still think Trump has “learned his lesson?” I think you’ll be learning your lesson in the next election by the sounds of it.

    1. If Maine’s voters reelect Collins, it will be because they have suffered from Hannityitis!

    2. @Janet Crawford yep, the only reason why most of these folks get into the house or Senate: get rich by their lobbying masters.

  14. Let’s not forget their actions since impeachment. They are complicit in what has happened,. They allowed this to happen.

    1. EXACTLY. I’d go as far as to say they’ve been complicit since day one – but _certainly_ since the pre-decided Senate “trial”.

  15. Trump failed – we died, trump refused to act – we are unemployed, trump failed – we now have a huge tax burden

    1. it was planned the c.c.p. was a Trojan egg roll in America. the trade war last year waited on human to human transmission six weeks. how entangled we are with them caused a late action and caused to much reaction. proactivity

    2. @Justin Milet What on earth are you smoking. While I would probably like some of it I don’t have a clue what you are talking about. I don’t think you do either.

    3. Lol you already had a giant tax burden thanks to his tax cuts for the wealthy. Now it’s just worse.

  16. It’s so sad that people had to die for people to understand how truly bad Donald is.

    1. If this is what gets Dump out of the White House, and the GrOPe out of the senate, they died for a good cause…

    2. Millions upon millions deaths from HIV/AIDS. Millions upon millions deaths from alcohol and drugs. Millions deaths from breasts cancer. Millions upon millions deaths from storms, landslides, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis of mother nature. Millions upon millions deaths from starvation around Worldwide (50 millions Chinese deaths from starvation during Great Leap Forward) and millions upon millions death from fatal diseases.

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