{"id":610834,"date":"2021-08-04T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610834"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T15:36:27","slug":"biden-attacks-desantis-abbott-get-out-of-the-way-on-covid-their-states-death-rates-are-way-down-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-attacks-desantis-abbott-get-out-of-the-way-on-covid-their-states-death-rates-are-way-down-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Attacks DeSantis, Abbott: \u2018Get Out Of The Way\u2019 On COVID. Their States\u2019 Death Rates Are Way Down The List."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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-attacks-desantis-abbott-get-out-of-the-way-on-covid-their-states-death-rates-are-way-down-the-list%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=610834&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Biden-DeSantis.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday, President Biden attacked Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis and Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott, ranting that they \u201caren\u2019t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic\u201d and if they \u201caren\u2019t going to help, at least get out of the way. \u2026 Use your power to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s nasty attack on the two governors ignores one salient fact: while he castigates them for their policies, their states are positioned far down the list when it comes to death rates from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>As Statista <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1109011\/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state\/\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday, the states with leading death rates from COVID-19 are led by Democratic governors: New Jersey and New York. Texas ranked 25<sup>th<\/sup>out of 50 states; Florida ranked 26<sup>th<\/sup>. Per 100,00 people, New York had 300 people who had died; New Jersey 276. Texas had 184; Florida had 182.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has a larger percentage of elderly people than New York, and the elderly population is the most susceptible to the virus. Statista reported, \u201cIn 2019, there were 4.5 million adults aged 65 and older living in Florida, out of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/183497\/population-in-the-federal-states-of-the-us\/\">total population<\/a>&nbsp;of 21.5 million.\u201d That amounts to 21% of the population. New York had 3.3 million adults aged 65 and older out of a population of 19.5 million, a percentage of 17%.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stated, \u201cThe escalation of cases is particularly concentrated in states with low vaccination rates. Just two states, Florida and Texas, account for one-third of all new COVID cases in the entire country. Just two states. Look, we need leadership from everyone. If some governors aren\u2019t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it. I say to these governors: Please help, but if you aren\u2019t going to help, at least get out of the way of the people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.398230088496\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pres. Biden: &#8220;If some governors aren&#8217;t willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you aren&#8217;t going to help, at least get out of the way.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iS94lNK991\">https:\/\/t.co\/iS94lNK991<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U0yTRLKqJc\">pic.twitter.com\/U0yTRLKqJc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1422668364405686278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration has made a concerted effort to attack DeSantis, apparently daunted by poll showing him as a front-running candidate to seize the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made false statements as she attacked him, snapping, \u201cThere are steps and precautions that can be taken, including encouraging people to get vaccinated, encouraging people to wear masks, including allowing schools to mandate masks and allowing kids to wear masks, which is not the current state of play in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-torches-biden-admin-after-psaki-makes-false-statement-about-his-handling-of-pandemic-in-florida\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported, \u201cDeSantis Press Secretary Christina Pushaw fired back, \u201cBy dismissively ignoring Governor DeSantis\u2019 efforts to protect vulnerable Floridians, Psaki is the one playing politics with the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw pointed out to The Daily Wire that DeSantis had over 50 vaccine-specific events, appearing in 27 counties around the state, issued over 100 tweets to highlight those efforts, and that the efficacy and value of vaccines had been mentioned specifically at least 1,600+ times in over 100 different public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-stands-tough-against-mask-mandates-for-kids-psaki-attacks-him\/\">staunchly defended<\/a> his position that he would not impose a mask mandate on schoolchildren in the upcoming school year, saying, \u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be any coercive mandates on our schools,\u201d and adding, \u201cWe certainly will not have any mandates on students and on parents in the upcoming school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis warned that the federal government might try to impose mask mandates, asserting, \u201cThere\u2019s been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory masks on kids, we\u2019re not doing that in Florida, okay? We need our kids to breathe; we need our kids to be able to be kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ABC News White House correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about DeSantis\u2019 remarks at a press briefing. Psaki, who has young children of her own, said that \u201cas a parent,\u201d DeSantis\u2019 position was \u201cgreatly concerning\u201d to her, adding, \u201cThat puts kids at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on Tuesday, President Biden attacked Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis and Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott, ranting that they \u201caren\u2019t willing to do the right thing to beat this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610834","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\/610834","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610834\/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=610834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}