Last week Biden claimed he wanted a million doses, but an AP reporter was quick to point out that Trump has already gotten us to a million doses per day, asking if Biden should shoot for a higher amount.
Biden replied “Come on man, give me a break!”
Well today Biden increased how much he wants to see, saying 1.5 million per day:
FOX NEWS – President Biden says he’s “quite confident” that in roughly three weeks the nation will “be vaccinating people at the range of a 1 million a day or in excess of that.”
The president, taking questions from reporters on Monday after an executive order signing, raised the bar on his pledge from the presidential campaign trail of achieving 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations in his first 100 days as president. Biden said he was hopeful “1.5 million a day, rather than 1 million a day” could be achieved in a couple of weeks.
The president, speaking at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, noted that “we’ve gotten commitments from some of the producers that they will in fact produce more vaccine in a relatively short period time and then continue that down the road.”
We know if this had been Trump, the media would have turned him into a laughing stock for a mistake like this. But with Biden, they’re just happy they could get him back on track. They want him to be successful.
The president’s responses on Monday stand in contrast to his pessimistic sounding comments on Friday when he indicated that the trajectory of the pandemic couldn’t be changed in the coming months, no matter what Americans do. “If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on, because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” the president said.
Asked by Fox News’ White House correspondent Peter Doocy to square his comments from Friday and Monday, the president emphasized that “I am going to shut down the virus, but I never said I was going to do it in two months. I said it took a long time to get here. It’s going to take a long time to beat it. We have millions of people out there who have the virus.”
“It’s going to take time. It’s going to take a heck of a lot of time,” Biden stressed.
Biden talking out of both sides of his mouth, and the only one who cares is Fox News. Reminds me so much of the Obama administration. Press has gone almost completely limp again.