Steve Hayes On How Trump’s Positive Covid Diagnosis Affects The 2020 Election

Steve Hayes, Fox News Contributor Editor and CEO of The Dispatch.com spoke with Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson about how Trump’s positive Covid-19 diagnosis affects the 2020 election. When asked Hayes said,

“I’m not one to dodge a question, so don’t misinterpret what I’m going to say as dodging the question. But the honest answer is, I don’t know where things stand. I still don’t know where things stand.”

Hayes also reacted to news that President Trump will be heading home from Walter Reed Medical Center tonight after a three day stay due to precautions from contracting COVID-19. Hayes said,

“I mean, I hope he’s I hope he’s well enough to go home from the hospital. It’s a little surprising, I think, if you talk to epidemiologists and public health experts who have been monitoring the president, at least what we think we know about the president’s condition, they would have advised staying in the hospital longer. But again, they’re not seeing the president. They don’t know exactly what his condition is. I hope he’s well enough to be going home. And I hope he takes the time he needs to get better. I think that message just is totally irresponsible. You don’t need to be you don’t there’s there’s a middle ground between sowing panic and pulling your hair out. And, you know, and being sort of ridiculous about it and throwing caution to the wind and saying, forget it. You know, who who cares? And I think, unfortunately, the president’s missing an opportunity here. The opportunity here is to say, look, we didn’t do all of the things that we ought to have done. And you can see in front of you with the White House staff and members of the Senate and people who attended the Indoor ceremony, for Amy Coney Barett. I think it wasn’t the outdoor, but like with the indoor ceremony for, Amy Coney Barett the previous Saturday, that we should have been more cautious than we were. We weren’t learned a lesson from us. Wear your masks, do the commonsense things, take the basic steps, and we’ll all be in a better position than this. I think, though, that this is consistent, unfortunately, with the way the White House has decided to approach the pandemic here in the last month of the election. Do while you can understand, you know, in the crucible of this intensely political moment, the president is concerned about getting reelected. And his best message is to say America’s opening up. We’re rebounding. No, we’re transition to greatness. We’re going to make America great again. Again. All of all of his messaging is dependent on the sense, the perception that we’re coming out of this. And I think, unfortunately, that perception is crashing into the reality that we’re not. And it would be far more constructive from a health perspective, a public health perspective, to be issuing those words of caution. Again, not hysteria, not sowing hysteria, not creating panic, but words of commonsense precaution that would allow people to learn from these mistakes.”

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