Chairwoman McDaniel On The President’s Leadership During This Crisis

BARTIROMO: How does this outbreak impact the president's reelection campaign come November? We are looking at the economy as his number one issue, and here we are in a recession and yet the numbers are still favoring the president's leadership.



CHAIRWOMAN MCDANIEL: Well the numbers are favoring the president's leadership because he’s out in front of the American people every day and they’re seeing this is somebody who gets it done. He's involving the private sector, he’s facing this head on, he's communicating to the American people. Then he's got the counterprogramming of Joe Biden trying to give briefings and really fumbling, and I think it’s shameful that he's trying to countprogram against the president in this time of crisis. But absolutely the convention is full steam ahead. We were on the ground in Charlotte. We are ready to go, and we look forward to re-nominating our president and having a full, seated convention in August.



BARTIROMO: Lee Carter.



LEE CARTER: So, you know, the president's strength has come from the economy, most of his support, everybody feels confident in the president because of the economy. Right now with that faltering. We also know one of the most important things to voters right now is health care. A lot of flaws in the healthcare system are being exposed right now. How do you think the Republican Party needs to address both of these issues as we move forward?



CHAIRWOMAN MCDANIEL: Well I think everybody in the country recognizes we faced essentially a global natural disaster, and nobody expected a global pandemic to come. I think the president working with the Senate to put these packages forward to reassure American workers that they are not going to be penalized by something that's come through no fault of their own. And then putting the fundamentals in place to help us build back once we come out of this crisis, so we also have to remember the reason, the reason we are able to combat this so well is because the economy was so strong heading into this crisis. The president put us in such a strong economic place that we are able to help the American worker right now. We do have the cash to do these things and that's directly because of the president. The president is the one who said we shouldn't have all our supply chains in China. He was spot on. I think every American agrees with that, so the things the president did before this crisis is really helping us weather it and I think the American public will recognize that come November.

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Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

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