GameObject does not move with RigidBody2D velocity.

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I have a gameobject in the hierarchy called Player. It has one child, PlayerSprite, which is a 2D sprite square. I made a script to make the sprite, or rather the gameobject as a whole, move with input. Here is the script I made.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Player : MonoBehaviour {   
    [SerializeField] float jumpHeight;
    [SerializeField] float moveSpeed;
    void Update()
    {
        if       (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))   Jump();
        else if  (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))   MoveLeft();
        else if  (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow))  MoveRight();
    }
    void Jump() {
        float totalJump = jumpHeight * Time.deltaTime;
        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector3(0, totalJump, 0);
    }
    void MoveRight() {
        float totalMovement = moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector3(totalMovement, 0, 0);
    }
    void MoveLeft() {
        float totalMovement = - moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector3(totalMovement, 0, 0);
    }
}

The script is attached to the Player gameobject. But somehow I just can’t get it to work. It does not move. I have spent nearly an hour trying to figuring this out, but I don’t know what to do. Can someone help and tell me what has gone wrong?

Edit: One interesting to note is that when I press left or right arrow keys, the x position of the gameobject in transform changes, but its position in the scene view does not change. Very weird.

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GetComponent().velocity = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw(“Horizontal”) * moveSpeed, GetComponent().velocity.y, 0);

Put this code into void FixedUpdate()

And make Jump()

GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = new Vector3(GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity.x, jumpHeight, 0);