The opening hour of the Democrats’ all-virtual convention featured several nationally recognized politicians addressing topics like systemic racism, police violence and economic recovery. But some of the most striking comments came from a woman few Americans may have heard of before Monday. That speaker, Kristin Urquiza, whose father died this summer in Arizona, opened her brief but impassioned speech bluntly: “I’m one of the many who have lost a loved one to Covid,” she said. “My dad, Mark Anthony Urquiza, should be here today, but he isn’t.”The reason, she asserted, was President Trump. “His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump — and for that he paid with his life.”

Source: New York Times August 18, 2020 02:36 UTC