Republican National Committee Chair, Ronna McDaniel, challenged a vote asking others if they thought the number of COVID-19-like deaths was “acceptable.”
The CBS News Battlefield Tracking Survey, conducted through YouGov, revealed a gap between Republicans and Democrats over how they view control of the coronavirus pandemic, adding their opinion on the death toll. More than a portion of Republicans, 57 percent, said the 170,000 COVID-19-related deaths are “acceptable,” for 33 percent of independents and 10 percent of Democrats.
“I think it’s an unfair poll,” McDaniel said at a Sunday appearance at Face the Nation. “And, of course, there is no one, starting with the president of the United States, who needs to see others die because of this global pandemic, coming here from China, without being honest, from WHO [World Health Organization]. Their only duty, their sole duty to identify a pandemic, and they have failed the world community. But let’s be honest, Republicans don’t need to see other people suffer from this pandemic. We’ve all been touched by that. This is not a Republican or democratic issue.”
McDaniel argued that no one wanted to see him die from the virus.
“This is a global pandemic. No one needs to see her die because of her,” he said. “Friends died for it. It’s not something other people want,” he said.
More than 5.6 million other people in the United States have become inflamed with COVID-19, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned this month that the death toll could reach 200,000 by Labor Day.