The far left Phoenix, AZ paper has published an op-ed written by Slow Joe

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What I would do as president to help Arizona

Right now, far too many of Arizonans’ lives have been turned upside down.

More than 220,000 have been infected with COVID-19. Nearly 6,000 have died, missing from our lives forever. There are at least 234,000 fewer jobs in Arizona as a result of this pandemic, and nearly one in five small businesses have shuttered.

Cruelest of all, it didn’t have to be this way.

I met Silvana Salcido Esparza, an award-winning chef, last week in Phoenix. She told me that her restaurant, Barrio Café, is hanging on by a thread. To keep her 10 employees on payroll, she had to cancel her own health insurance, even though she suffers from a terminal illness. If her employees go under, Silvana said, she would “go under with them.”

Arizonans deserve leaders who feel the same way. Who care about their families the same way. Who understand what they’re going through.

It’s been more than two months since emergency funding for struggling small businesses like Barrio Café dried up, and President Trump has failed to get them the aid they desperately need.

At the same time, the Trump administration is trying to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act in the U.S. Supreme Court. If successful, Trump will strip health insurance protections from 2.8 million Arizonans with pre-existing conditions — possibly including COVID-19 survivors who experience long-term side effects like lung scarring. Arizonans with pre-existing conditions could see your insurance company jack up your premiums or deny you coverage.

This is deadly serious: President Trump is trying to take your health care away during a pandemic.

The bottom line is, we can’t trust this president to protect Arizona families and businesses from the pandemic he bungled.

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