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Posted: 2024-03-19T06:51:48Z | Updated: 2024-03-19T12:57:24Z Key Republican Line Of Attack Is Thoroughly Dismantled In New Ad | HuffPost

Key Republican Line Of Attack Is Thoroughly Dismantled In New Ad

A GOP talking point is flipped against conservatives in the MeidasTouch video.
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Republicans have recently taken to putting their own spin on former President Ronald Reagans four years question from the 1980 election.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump , Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and others have sought to attack President Joe Biden by asking voters if they believe they are better off now than in 2020, when presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was still in the White House.

The MeidasTouch  network answered the question with a montage of Trumps comments from four years ago during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic when the then-president suggested COVID-19 would just disappear, said testing was overrated, touted injecting disinfectant as a possible cure and dismissed mass deaths.

Yes, we are better off than we were four years ago. And its not even close, read the caption of the 64-second video shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday.

The clip garnered almost 500,000 views in its first 10 hours on the platform.

Raegan first asked the iconic were you better off question in the waning days of his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter.  

Both Lara Trump, who is Donald Trumps daughter-in-law, and Stefanik drew fierce ridicule  online earlier this month for asking the question  as critics reminded them of the chaos that engulfed the Trump White House on a regular basis.

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