Democrat Stacey Abrams pointed to President Trump's use of the phrase "kung flu" to describe the coronavirus as an example of the bigotry in the United States she says he's counting on to help him win reelection.
"Once again, he shows that racism is the core of his appeal," the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate, who is black, said Wednesday on MSNBC. "It is the trope that he relies on in order to gin up his supporters. And what is deeply disheartening and deeply disturbing is that as we have this moment of reckoning around the systemic racism that blacks have faced since 1619 in this country, we cannot ignore what has happened to Latino communities under his leadership, the Asian American community that has to listen to his slurs against them because of a disease that is ravaging and killing our people."
Trump has used the term at rallies and during other events in recent days.
"By the way, it's a disease, without question, [that] has more names than any disease in history," Trump said at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. "I can name kung flu. I can name 19 different versions of names."
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