Kristi Noem governs a state that’s about 1,500 miles away, but the South Dakota Republican appeared to be a big hit with North Carolina’s GOP at their convention on Saturday, according to reports.
One reason was Noem’s criticism of Dr., the infectious disease expert who has been a target of many Republicans, according to the North State Journal of Raleigh, N.C.
"Fauci is wrong – a lot," Noem told the audience in Greenville. The line drew strong applause, according to the newspaper. To make her point, Noem claimed Fauci had told her once that South Dakota would need 10,000 hospital beds when thereached its peak in the state. Turns out, she said, that South Dakota needed only 600 beds when infections hit their highest point.
Her latest criticism of Fauci coincides with new scrutiny of the 80-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases following a recent disclosure that U.S. dollars helped fund China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a suspected epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Noem drew scorn from the mainstream media during the worst days of the pandemic for her opposition to state-ordered coronavirus restrictions. Last April, an outbreak at one South Dakota meat plant was linked to
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