Wednesday, October 7, 2020
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary Bauer
Debate Night
The first and only vice-presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris will take place tonight at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The debate will be moderated by Susan Page of USA Today, and will air at 9:00 PM ET.
Usually vice-presidential debates are not game changers, but this one could be. If elected, Joe Biden would be 78 years old at the beginning of his first term. Donald Trump is four years younger, but we have been reminded in recent days about the fragility of life.
My point is that there is some chance (there always is) that one of these two individuals debating tonight could be our next president sooner than anyone might expect.
A COVID-19 Moment?
Is it possible that tonight's debate could provide a teaching moment on the coronavirus? It's possible, but in case other issues dominate the debate, here's some information you should know:
- COVID is a highly infectious respiratory disease.
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Since it is a new disease, NO ONE had any immunity to it. The disease is unlikely to stop spreading until we introduce effective vaccines.
- Because of the aggressive and comprehensive efforts of the Trump/Pence Administration, we will get those vaccines this year or early next year. That is record time, unprecedented in medical history.
- COVID was already spreading around the world before we even knew it existed.
- 40% of people who contract it have no symptoms and no reason to contact a doctor or go to a hospital.
- According to the Economist, Germany may have missed 82% of its cases. Worldwide, there may be 20 undetected cases for every one we discover.
- This means that the fatality rate is much lower than what the media are telling you. It is not 5%, 4%, 3%, 2% or even 1%.
- If you are older (over 70), have serious underlying health conditions – diabetes, heart failure, lung disease, etc. – contracting coronavirus presents a great risk, but even for those in that age group generally, the survivability rate is 95%.
Trump Orders Declassification
Last night President Trump tweeted that he has ordered the declassification of "any & all" documents related to the "Russia Hoax" and "the Hillary Clinton email scandal." The president also expressed his frustration that the declassification process is moving slowly, and some suspect CIA Director Gina Haspel may be responsible for that.
One important piece of information we have learned in recent days is that former CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama about Hillary Clinton's plot to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent "as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server."
We also learned that the CIA forwarded this information to the FBI so it could investigate the Clinton campaign. Of course, we know that the FBI targeted the Trump campaign instead.
What this shows is that the only 2016 candidate plotting with foreign interests to interfere in the election was Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama knew it. Clinton hired a former British intelligence agent who then called on his Russian assets to contrive the now infamous debunked dossier.
Michelle's Message
Former First Lady Michelle Obama jumped into the fray yesterday by releasing a video in which she lied about the riots and played the race card. Her message was a form of character assassination against the entire country.
The left has been playing the race card for years in ways that only serve to deepen racial divides. This country is so decent and so good that the worst possible thing you can say about an individual is that they are a racist. That's why they keep saying it.
The left can't win the argument over America's role in the world, the size of government, religious liberty or the sanctity of life. So they resort to telling the country, including the children of this increasingly diverse country, that conservatives in general are racists. You can't say anything worse than that.
And for the first woman of color to be the First Lady of the United States to engage in this sort of race baiting is outrageous.
Don't get me wrong: I know racism still exists. It is a sin and should be confronted. But how is it that this "horribly evil and systemically racist nation" twice elected a black man as president?
And show me the black prime minister of Canada. Show me the black prime minister of Great Britain. Show me the black president of France. Show me the black chancellor of Germany. I could go on, but you get the point.
Anytime you hear Michelle Obama speak, just remember that she once said she had never been proud of America until her husband won the 2008 Democrat Party nomination.
