US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is also a Democratic presidential candidate, said when she was a senator from California that she would not trust the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines under Donald Trump.
The statement was made before the 2020 election, when Biden was elected president and she was his running mate.
Harris said she would not take the then-Republican president’s word on the reliability of any coronavirus vaccine released before the last election.
The statement was given in an interview with CNN during the election debate period. Journalist Dana Bash asked Harris if she would take a vaccine that was approved and distributed before the election. The former senator responded: “Well, I think that’s going to be a problem for all of us.”
“I would say I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that speaks to the efficacy and reliability of whatever he’s talking about,” she said. “I’m not going to take his word for it,” she stressed.
Harris justified her position by saying that Trump had a history of suppressing expert opinion on the pandemic, something she feared could happen again in the event of a potential vaccine rollout at that time.
In the months following the start of the pandemic, Trump, who was then president of the United States, raised the possibility that a vaccine could be developed before that year’s elections, scheduled for November 3.
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