Republican strategist Karl Rove expressed anger toward former Vice President Joe Biden’s apparent fundraising off of coronavirus fears.
“This is unbelievable — what Joe Biden did,” told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “Does he have no shame? Is there no decency?”
Rove then began reading part of a Joe Biden fundraising email live on the air.
“Here’s the front page of his emailer, his email, he sent out about 7:40 p.m. tonight,” Rove said. “‘Here’s a speech I gave this afternoon. This is a long email, but I hope you will read it all the way through and forward this to family and friends.'”
“The final page has a ‘Donate to Joe Biden’ button on it,” Rove added. “He’s raising money off of this. In fact, here’s exactly what it says at the end … ‘This isn’t the time to be complacent — if you are ready to fight for the soul of the nation, you can start by donating to elect Joe Biden by clicking the button below. Donate to Joe Biden.”
“The man is raising money off of the coronavirus challenge facing our country,” Rove continued. “Does he have no shame?”
“Is there no decency that says, you know what? There are some moments when we shouldn’t be taking things and use them for crass political purposes. … He’s using it for prospecting!”
Rove also said that shortly after Biden sent out the email asking for donations, the Senate Democrat’s fundraising arm attacked Republicans for not quickly approving Democrats call for emergency paid sick leave.
“Have these people no sense of decency? Can we not step away from this for just a minute and not politicize everything that comes down the line, or is everything gonna be now used for fundraising?”
Rove didn’t stop there. He also penned an op-ed for Fox News that expanded on his point that Biden is doing something wrong.
He described Biden’s actions as an attempt to “raise money off the crisis as it heats up” as part of a “clever” way to “get your fundraising pitch more widely distributed at no cost by asking recipients to share the speech with family and friends, hoping they’ll “read all the way through” and see the appeal for campaign cash.
