Angela Merkel has said in the last 24 hours that as many as 70 percent of the people in her country of Germany could be infected before this is over. That's an astonishing number.
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David Gergen references Angela Merkel's alarming prediction about the potential spread of the virus in Germany.
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Absolutely, absolutely. I -- Because the Republicans have gone at this in such a different way than the Democrats, the Democrats have been arguing the facts and the evidence, and the Republicans aren't contesting them on the facts.
If you -- but a lot of Americans are also going to judge him. I think he's teetering on the edge because of the complacency in the past, and letting this many precious weeks pass without urgent action.
He is obsessed with winning re-election. It's all about self-respect. It is whether he is going to be humiliated or not.
It will - it will change the equation in Joe Biden's favor, not the other way around.





