{"id":1080455,"date":"2021-12-03T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080455"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:14:49","slug":"biden-shifts-goal-posts-after-repeatedly-promising-during-campaign-that-he-would-shut-down-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-shifts-goal-posts-after-repeatedly-promising-during-campaign-that-he-would-shut-down-the-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Shifts Goal Posts After Repeatedly Promising During Campaign That He Would \u2018Shut Down The Virus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-shifts-goal-posts-after-repeatedly-promising-during-campaign-that-he-would-shut-down-the-virus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080455&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden shifted the goal post on Friday morning on fighting the pandemic after repeatedly promising on the campaign that he would \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference, Biden was confronted on an op-ed that he wrote in USA Today this week [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<p><em>We are going to fight COVID-19 not with shutdowns or lockdowns \u2013 but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing&nbsp;and more.&nbsp;<strong>We will beat it back<\/strong> with science and speed, not chaos and confusion \u2013 just as we did in the spring and again with the more powerful delta variant in the summer and fall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo on COVID policy, it seems like the administration is starting to soften some of the language,\u201d Fox News reporter Peter Doocy said. \u201cThere\u2019s this new op-ed where you talk about COVID, \u2018We are going to beat it back.\u2019 Are you no longer going to \u2018shut it down?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to beat it back before we shut it down,\u201d Biden responded. \u201cLook, it\u2019s going to take time worldwide. In order to beat COVID, we have to shut it down worldwide. In the United States of America. We\u2019re doing everything that needs to be done to take care of the American people within our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 Doocy asks Biden: &#8220;Are you no longer going to shut the virus down?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden: &#8220;We&#8217;ve gotta beat it back before we shut it down\u2026We&#8217;ve gotta shut it down worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not moving the goalposts, I don&#8217;t know what is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tvo7ZivdWx\">pic.twitter.com\/tvo7ZivdWx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1466800721412640774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden repeatedly promised while on the campaign trail that he would \u201cshut down the virus\u201d:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SUPERCUT: Biden repeatedly promised to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He failed.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yhffn1GXls\">pic.twitter.com\/Yhffn1GXls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1466113238760935427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was confronted by Doocy this week over the same matter after Doocy had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-on-bidens-promise-to-shut-down-the-virus-we-need-the-american-people-to-do-more\">tried<\/a> to question Biden and Biden did not answer his question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the questions from earlier about messaging, what ever happened to President Biden\u2019s promise to shut down the virus?\u201d a reporter asked. \u201cThere\u2019s another variant here. Is the idea that you want people now to kind of wrap their heads around that the President, instead of shutting down the virus, is going to try to help people live amidst the virus and go about their lives but COVID is going to be here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on it, Peter,\u201d Psaki responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another variant here, is the idea that you want people now to kind of wrap their heads around that the President, instead of shutting down the virus, is going to try to help people live amidst the virus and go about their lives but COVID is going to be here?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Peter, what\u2019s very important for people to understand and all of you are communicating to the public about what steps they can take to go back to normal or go back to normal life \u2014 something everybody wants to do,\u201d she responded. \u201cWe\u2019re all sick and tired of this virus, but we need approximately 20 percent of the population or more people than are currently vaccinated to go get vaccinated and go get boosted. What we can do as the federal government is make those vaccines free, make the boosters free, make them available. The President will talk more about what we\u2019re going to do tomorrow. But we need the American people to do more \u2014 who are not vaccinated \u2014 to help us continue to fight the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by <a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a> to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden shifted the goal post on Friday morning on fighting the pandemic after repeatedly promising on the campaign that he would \u201cshut down the virus.\u201dDuring a press conference, Biden was confronted on an op-ed that he wrote in USA Today this week [emphasis added]:We are going to fight COVID-19 not with shutdowns or lockdowns \u2013 but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing\u00a0and more.\u00a0We will beat it back with science and speed, not chaos and confusion \u2013 just as we did in the spring and again with the more powerful delta variant in the summer and fall.\u201cSo on COVID policy, it seems like the administration is starting to soften some of the language,\u201d Fox News reporter Peter Doocy said. \u201cThere\u2019s this new op-ed where you talk about COVID, \u2018We are going to beat it back.\u2019 Are you no longer going to \u2018shut it down?&#8217;\u201d\u201cWe got to beat it back before we shut it down,\u201d Biden responded. \u201cLook, it\u2019s going to take time worldwide. In order to beat COVID, we have to shut it down worldwide. In the United States of America. We\u2019re doing everything that needs to be done to take care of the American people within our borders.\u201dWATCH:\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 Doocy asks Biden: &#8220;Are you no longer going to shut the virus down?&#8221;Biden: &#8220;We&#8217;ve gotta beat it back before we shut it down\u2026We&#8217;ve gotta shut it down worldwide.&#8221;If that&#8217;s not moving the goalposts, I don&#8217;t know what is. pic.twitter.com\/tvo7ZivdWx\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) December 3, 2021Biden repeatedly promised while on the campaign trail that he would \u201cshut down the virus\u201d:SUPERCUT: Biden repeatedly promised to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201dHe failed.pic.twitter.com\/Yhffn1GXls\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 1, 2021White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was confronted by Doocy this week over the same matter after Doocy had previously tried to question Biden and Biden did not answer his question.\u201cTo the questions from earlier about messaging, what ever happened to President Biden\u2019s promise to shut down the virus?\u201d a reporter asked. \u201cThere\u2019s another variant here. Is the idea that you want people now to kind of wrap their heads around that the President, instead of shutting down the virus, is going to try to help people live amidst the virus and go about their lives but COVID is going to be here?\u201d\u201cWe\u2019re working on it, Peter,\u201d Psaki responded.\u201cThere\u2019s another variant here, is the idea that you want people now to kind of wrap their heads around that the President, instead of shutting down the virus, is going to try to help people live amidst the virus and go about their lives but COVID is going to be here?\u201d Doocy asked.\u201cWell, Peter, what\u2019s very important for people to understand and all of you are communicating to the public about what steps they can take to go back to normal or go back to normal life \u2014 something everybody wants to do,\u201d she responded. \u201cWe\u2019re all sick and tired of this virus, but we need approximately 20 percent of the population or more people than are currently vaccinated to go get vaccinated and go get boosted. What we can do as the federal government is make those vaccines free, make the boosters free, make them available. The President will talk more about what we\u2019re going to do tomorrow. But we need the American people to do more \u2014 who are not vaccinated \u2014 to help us continue to fight the virus.\u201dThe Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.\u00a0 Join us in this fight by signing our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}