WATCH: House minority leader addresses coronavirus at RNC

Politics

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is talking more about the coronavirus pandemic than many of the speakers at the Republican National Convention this week.

Watch McCarthy's remarks in the player above.

But he's not calling it by its name, only "an invisible enemy that we didn't ask for."

The California Republican said Thursday in his RNC speech that "we will defeat it because America is where innovation happens, and we are developing a vaccine in record time."

He credits President Donald Trump for having "unleashed a Marshall Plan for Main Street," referring to the coronavirus relief package for unemployed Americans and businesses.

However McCarthy, as all speakers this week, referred to the pandemic as an unforeseen tragedy that has killed 180,000 Americans, not the virus that first swept across Europe and that Trump at first played down before assembling a White House task force.

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