The National Republican Senatorial Committee backed down from its “don’t defend Trump” memo, but the president’s campaign is still pissed—and making threats
has bungled the coronavirus crisis, even before he casually suggested doctors might be able to clean human lungs with bleach, it is understandable that the National Republican Senatorial Committee would advise its candidates to distance themselves a bit from the president while fielding questions about the pandemic. “Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban,” the committee told its candidates in an April 17But that’s not how the Trump campaign sees it.
Worried that his mishandling will cost him in November, not to mention hurt Republicans in down ballot races, the president and his allies have increasingly sought to shift the blame to China, whose notoriously secretive government the extent of the coronavirus threat as it emerged this past winter. Trump, as presumptive Democratic nominee
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