The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the country. Millions of Americans are out of work. Professional athletes are on strike for racial injustice at the hands of the police.
And yet President Trump will offer a “very promising vision for America” in his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night, said Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser.
The pandemic is far from over. But Kushner is not the first to describe the coronavirus pandemic, which killed another 180,000 people in the United States as a recurring challenge in which the country has largely succeeded.
With more than 1,200 more people in the United States reportedly killed by COVID-19 on Wednesday, Kushner said Thursday that through the pandemic, “President Trump has had a company hand.” He said he had “made a lot of smart decisions.”
Kushner added that the president’s acceptance speech, which he is expected to deliver from the southern white house, would also face the seriousness of the November election and how a bad vote will have “serious consequences.”
Kushner’s comments come after Vice President Mike Pence concluded his speech to Congress wednesday by promising that Trump “would do America again… again.”
The slogan is a play about Trump’s 2016 message, but it’s a replacement for a mantra from the last crusade of 2020 to “keep America big” as the country slid into decline amid the pandemic.