5 highlights from DNC night 1: Biden can ‘restore the soul of America,’ Cuomo and Sanders declare
Daughter says dad ‘paid with his life’ for supporting Trump
Another speaker Monday night was 39-year-old Kristin Urquiza, whose 65-year-old father, who was obese and in a high-risk category, died in June from COVID-19 weeks after attending a Karaoke bar in Arizona with his friends. Urquiza said that her father went to the bar “after the stay-at-home order was lifted” in the state.
Urquiza blamed Trump and the failure of government leadership for her father’s death. In June, Urquiza had cast blame on Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey for her father’s death.
“He had faith in Donald Trump,” Urquiza said of her father, Mark Anthony Urquiza. “He voted for him, listened to him, believed him and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear, that it was OK to end social distancing rules before it was safe, and that if you had no underlying health conditions you’d probably be fine.”
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“His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump,” she added. “[A]nd for that he paid with his life.”
Urquiza, said that the pandemic has “made it clear” that there are “two Americas.” One is the “America that Donald Trump lives in” while the other is the “America that my father died in.”
“Donald Trump may not have caused the coronavirus, but his dishonesty and his irresponsible actions made it so much worse,” she said. “We need a leader who has a national, coordinated, data-driven response to stop this pandemic from claiming more lives and to safely reopen the country. We need a leader who will step in on day one and do his job, to care. One of the last things that my father said to me was that he felt betrayed by the likes of Donald Trump. And so, when I cast my vote for Joe Biden, I will do it for my dad."
While Trump has pushed for a reopening of America’s economy, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under the Trump administration, issued guidance early on in the pandemic advising people to practice social distancing and wear face masks.
