Senior editor at The Federalist Mollie Hemingway comments on some liberal media reaction to President Trump testing positive for coronavirus.
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number one at this juncture,
a lot of people taking shots at
the president,
not heartening, but thought
surprising
yeah.
I was disappointed,
genuinely disappointed to see
the glee with which some people
responded to this news.
There is a proper way to respond
to this news
for people who pray.
It is a good time to pray.
You should be praying for your
world leaders, the leader of
your country every day, but this
is a good time to do it.
Its also important that people
not be hysterical when they will
dont have reason to be
hysterical
and that works for people no
matter their perspective.
This is a very tough virus
and it is something that you
wouldnt wish on anyone,
but its also true for the vast
majority of people who get it
they are not even Tom is a or
they areasymptomatic dot. The death r
people need to have accurate
fact based perspective rather
than responding as if its more
dramatic than it is
Steve. Lets figure out what is
going on before they start
throwing the slings and arrows
Mollie. We are thirty, two days out from
the election
you know, and the president was
expected to be traveling more in
the coming weeks.
I believe he was going to make
some trips out west and things
like that.
Its got to be frustrating for
him
and you have covered him now for
coming on five years for him
suddenly to be on the sidelines
when he feels like he should be
out and about with the people.
I think, given his diagnosis now
with Covid, it will be
interesting to see if they
continue to stage these great
big rallies, where there is very
little social, distancing and
very little mask wearing, given
the fact that the president
himself has contracted it. There
is no question these two
campaigns: Trump and Bidens
campaigns, differently,
Biden, wouldnt change. How is he
campaigning so much because he
isnt doing events
Trump massive rallies and
enthusiasm and whatnot?
They have to modify in some
sense, at least during this
quarantine time how they are
doing that. I think you should
not forget that a lot of this is
a result of an enthusiasm gap
among the different voters,
its not that Biden. Voters dont
have enthusiasm
its just that its mostly based
around their hatred for Donald
Trump, not about actual like of
their candidate, whereas for
trump voters. There really is
this genuine excitement and
enthusiasm and a desire to come
out and show support
that will continue.
I mean this is shocking news.
This is a big deal today,
but I think that after people
adjust to it that you will see
you know continued events and
continued campaigning from the
Trump campaign.
I dont think there is much that
would keep trump voters from
getting out and showing their
support
Ainsley. I was going to ask you
about that, because Brian brought
up a good point in the last
hour.
One of the lawmakers is writing
him and saying: how is this going
to effect us with other world
leaders?
Are they going to look at us at
vulnerable?
Also, if you look at the stock
futures, they plunged this
morning already
people I woke up this morning
and, as I was coming into Fox and
using my hand sanitizer a little
more than I normally would
thinking of the president and
the forefront of our minds right
now
going into the weekend. How is
this going to effect the
american population
yeah? I do think you know
people might be concerned about
how this news would effect the
campaign if they are worried
about a Biden presidency. You
might see reflections of that in
certain financial markets and
other things like that.
But again I think its after a
day or so. We will no more,
we will know more
and there have been a lot of
people who have gotten this
virus.
It is no easy thing.
I have had family members and
friends who have gotten it and I
wouldnt wish it on other ones.
Its also true other people have
gotten it. Dont have symptoms,
people should let the facts lead
them into their analysis, and
they should also remember that
of all those world leaders that
we talk about and all those
world leaders, wives and other
people. You didnt hear a lot of
people succumbing to the
illness
Brian. If the president is
asymptomatic and working full
steam ahead, like Robert Obrien
did when he tested positive, it
makes you wonder about the
candidacy of something else that
matters a lot to the american
people, Amy Coney Barrett.
Already there is movement among
Democrats to say: hey lets slow
this down. In light of what is
going on,
you wrote the book on the
Kavanaugh proceedings before and
after and through his
confirmation.
Where do you think Democrats are
going to be doing with this
candidacy now?
Well, I was not surprised to
see them officially call for a
delay.
You might remember that during
the Kavanaugh confirmation delay
was kind of the theme of the
democratic response throughout
the summer
and then, when the allegations
came forward and then they just
kept on trying to find reasons
to delay it.
We need another FBI
investigation.
We need more time.
Delay is something that they
want because they want to push
it past the election, because
that is their best shot for
preventing this nominee from
filling her seat.
But the senators do not seem
inclined at all to delay on
behalf of Democrats,
particularly because of you who
they handled the Kavanaugh
confirmation.
There is no reason to defer to
people after they showed what.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.