TRUMP ACCUSED OF IGNORING COVID-19 TO HURT 'BLUE STATES': Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) join the Biden campaign in a discussion about Pres. Trump's 'failed coronavirus response.' https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKjYyWMEgxw

A recent Vanity Fair exposé quoted a member of Jared Kushner's staff as saying the White House slow-walked the response to the pandemic because 'the political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states.'

Despite his intelligence briefings, Trump concealed the threat of the virus from the public for over two months, allowing the disease to spread unchecked. While blue states were the first to suffer, the disease has now hit every state, killing more than 178,000 in the U.S.