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Election 2020: Andy Harris on COVID, Chestertown BLM Murals, Talbot Boys, Climate Change, and Trump

September 23, 2020 by Dave Wheelan

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While most citizens of the 1st Congressional District in Maryland will be focused on the presidential election come November 3, it is worth reminding our readers that incumbent representative Andy Harris is running for a fifth term as well. In today’s edition of the Spy, we are sharing our interview with Rep. Harris, and on Thursday, we will have a similar Zoom conversation with Mia Mason, his Democratic opponent.

In his Spy interview, Congressman Harris talks about his views on COVID-19, the use of Black Lives Matter murals in Chestertown, his desire to keep the Talbot Boys statue in Easton, the cause and effect of climate change with wildfires in the West, and his insistence that President Trump will accept the results of the November election.

This video is approximately seventeen minutes in length. For more information about the Harris for Congress campaign, please go here.

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  1. Michael McDowell says

    September 23, 2020 at 5:08 PM

    Harris arrogantly scorned Dave Wheelan’s spot-on accurate question (13 minutes into the video) on Trump refusing to accept the results of the election this November.

    Harris labeled this “A ridiculous question,” and repeated that gibe, saying that his hero, Trump, never said this. But Harris is, once again, LYING. Here is what Trump told Fox News’s Chris Wallace, on tape, just a month ago: Chris Wallace asked the president if he would accept the results of the Nov. 3 election, when he is set to face off against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

    “I have to see,” Trump said. “Hilary Clinton asked me the same thing. And you know what, she’s the one that never accepted. She never accepted her loss. And she looks like a fool.”

    When Trump was once again asked if he would accept the results or not, he reiterated to Wallace, “I have to see.”

    “No, I’m not going to just say ‘yes.’ I’m not going to say ‘no,’ ” Trump said. “And I didn’t last time either.”

    So Harris blatantly lies for Trump. The facts are above for all to see. Harris, as unfit for District 1 as Trump is unfit for the Oval office. Harris had the cheek to say that Joe Biden would be the one to refuse to accept the election result.

    Harris is a shill for Trump with no interest in evidence or facts. Utterly partisan and incapable of admitting error over his past irresponsibility at pushing to “open up” Maryland too early in the Covid pandemic. Another Republican, Governor Hogan, refuted Harris and has no interest in Harris’s reckless “advice” on public health protection.

    • Stephen Schaare says

      September 23, 2020 at 7:03 PM

      Hi Michael, I take it you will not be voting for Dr. Harris. About a month ago, I saw Hillary Clinton advise Joe Biden “under no circumstances concede the election”. Guess you did not see that. Once regarded by Dems as “the smartest woman in the world” Such sage, and timely advice.

      • Michael McDowell says

        September 23, 2020 at 8:08 PM

        Mr. Schaare, the only reason why Clinton said that is because Trump — on the record, numerous times, over the past weeks and months — has said he would not necessarily ACCEPT the result of the election, as I have evidenced above. HE has raised groundless questions about “massive” voter fraud last time and still and there is NO convincing evidence of any significant voter fraud. Trump set up a commission to “investigate” so-called voter fraud. It was closed down….because…..it couldn’t find any! Fact. Clinton got close to 3-million more votes than Trump last time around. He never accepted that she did. Fact, again. Trump has lied consistently on this and multiple other serious matters. The evidence is there for all to see — well most of us, at any rate. I am a democrat with a small “d” before I am a Democrat by voter registration. The former is more important to me than the latter. I believe it likely that Trump, on the night of the election in November, or within a day or less, will claim “victory” when there will be no conclusive case to do so within 24 hours, or even by the end of the week because of so many postal votes being gathered because of Covid and because so many vote by mail these days. Trump, if defeated by Biden, hopefully for our democracy, with a significant margin, will lie and cheat all he can. His record is clear and sordid. He is no democrat with a small “d”. He has shown he admires dictatorial leaders like Putin, Erdogan, Duterte, and Andy Harris’s favorite strongman, Viktor Orban, neo-fasccist (as John McCain rightly called him) of Hungary who has shredded the Hungarian constitution, destroyed the free press, etc. Trump envies these anti-democratic charlatans. Harris is a shameless shill for Trump.

      • Deirdre LaMotte says

        September 24, 2020 at 9:23 PM

        I promised myself I would stay off The Spy after they decided that there are two sides to the Trump story that should be published.
        Bull.
        Anyway, you are wrong in your statement…Hillary Clinton told
        Joe Biden to “not concede the election until ALL VOTES ARE
        COUNTED. That is the fact that your news source is not mentioning.
        You are supporting a man who hates this nation and will facilitate it’s downfall
        because it will not re-elected him.
        Well, pleased with yourself? You’d love Moscow this time of year.
        Give it a try and take your Putin loving comrades with you. Please?

  2. Ernesto says

    September 29, 2020 at 11:04 AM

    My family is from Uruguay, Argentina and chili, we are first generation Hispanic Americans. We were Democrats for 20 years because of the propaganda. So glad we left that party. It’s good to see an articulate, educated person such as Rep Harris. Glad someone like him is working with Relief therapeutics on RLF-100. My two siblings are in the medical field and are impressed with the results of this drug, especially what they saw in Houston TX where 19 of 21 very ill Covid-19 patients were saved with this drug.

    • T Mitchell Griggs says

      October 1, 2020 at 6:34 AM

      And you, like Harris are on the wrong side of history. I love (not) Harris’ parroting tRump – “fake” news. His stance on Covid, especially given his medical training is flat out wrong at best bordering on criminal at worst. There is no magic bullet for Covid, agreed. But countries like Taiwan have been open since April due to following basic medical guidelines like wearing masks and adopting tactics like aggressive tracking and testing – items the US can’t be bothered to deploy. THAT is the chief reason we own 200k deaths. I could not even bring myself to watch the entire interview. Harris served his time, and we have served ours. Vote this man out. Now.

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