Jim Bakker Show - Important Issues for the 2020 Election - Dr. Ralph Reed
Aired: 2020-08-10
Duration: 02:25


=== Pandemic's Impact on Jobs and Travel (02:25) ===

[00:00:00]  Dr. Rafreed, I'd like to ask you this question.
[00:00:03]  What are the key issues in the 2020 election?
[00:00:08]  Well, I think certainly right now, COVID-19 is at the top of people's concerns.
[00:00:16]  I think the president deserves an enormous amount of credit, first of all, for banning travel from China in January.
[00:00:26]  Probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives by doing that.
[00:00:30]  We know that the virus emerged from the Wuhan province in China.
[00:00:37]  He later banned travel from Europe because they had allowed unfettered travel from China, which is why it broke out there worse quicker than it did here.
[00:00:49]  He's also moved heaven and earth to get the ventilators, to get therapeutic medications out there so that we're seeing the death rate plummet.
[00:01:00]  We're seeing shorter hospital stays.
[00:01:03]  And of course, this week we saw the announcement that the Trump administration has done a deal with Pfizer for up to 600 million doses of a vaccine that they project will be available as early as December.
[00:01:19]  So I think the president's done really well there.
[00:01:22]  Secondly, the economy.
[00:01:23]  I mentioned what he did before COVID.
[00:01:26]  I mentioned the 7.5 million jobs that have been created just in the last 60 days.
[00:01:32]  I think as soon as we can get past this pandemic, this economy is going to explode.
[00:01:37]  He cut taxes.
[00:01:39]  He cut taxes for the average family of four in America, the typical household, saved $2,000.
[00:01:46]  He doubled the child tax credit to $2,000 so that a typical family with two children would be able to write $4,000 off their taxes.
[00:01:57]  He rolled back the Obama regulations to unleash fracking and the energy industry.
[00:02:02]  The jobs have exploded, over a half million new manufacturing jobs.
[00:02:08]  He's done a great job on the economy.
[00:02:10]  And then I think after that, health care, where Biden wants to basically adopt Bernie Sanders' plan of socialized medicine,