MSNBC’s Haake on Coronavirus Bill: Dems Pushing for Things that Are ‘Arguably Not a Current Crisis’

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HAAKE: “They are trying to find their way through a solution and Democrats believe they have some political leverage here to control the response here in the way they would like to see it performed and to get some of their priorities across the finish line. There is a political danger of overreaching here and I think that’s what you’re seeing play out on the Senate floor where Democrats are being criticized for things like including cancellation of student debt, which you could argue is not a part of the coronavirus crisis. Things like you heard the Speaker talk about, the election security and vote by mail, which is a very interesting issue for all of us who've been covering the connection between the virus and electoral politics, that are arguably not an current crisis in March. So I think this is the walk that the — the line the Democrats are going to be walking here is do they press their political advantage as they see it to get the most favorable terms possible out of a Senate bill or do they press too far and risk being blamed by the public for slowing down a bill that is widely agreed to be urgently needed out in the rest of the country?"