President Donald Trump attacked Democrats at a rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, on the eve of the state's crucial primary — all while his administration works to tackle the growing fear surrounding the novel coronavirus . The president defended his administration’s response to the coronavirus threat, blasting Democrats for “politicizing” the issue and calling it “their new hoax” — adding that “they can't even count the votes in Iowa.” The president also compared annual flu deaths to the coronavirus, saying “the press is in hysteria mode.” “So, a number that nobody heard of — that I heard of recently, and I was shocked to hear it, 35,000 people on average die each year from the flu. Did anyone know that? 35,000. That's a lot of people. It can go to 100,000. It can be 27,000,” Trump said. “They say usually a minimum of 27,[000], goes up to 100,000 people a year die. And so, far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States.” Early in the rally, Trump accused Democrats of “politicizing the coronavirus.” “One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t… Read full this story
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