GOP Attacked Obama on Ebola, Now Defend Trump

“In the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections, Republican David Perdue excoriated President Barack Obama over his handling of the Ebola outbreak — contending that Obama had ‘failed to lead’ and ‘took a serious threat far too lightly,'” CNN reports.

“Six years later, Perdue, a first-term senator, is on the ballot again in Georgia — and now is running on the same ticket as a president struggling to get control of a virus far more deadly to the country.”

“But Perdue has praised Donald Trump, even as the president has repeatedly downplayed the coronavirus, contended it would disappear, called on states to be ‘liberated’ as they were trying to isolate from the virus, was late to embrace mask wearing and has falsely claimed that more testing is the lone reason for more cases.”

Said Perdue: “It’s a totally different situation.”