Pence has repeated a mantra that the administration's approach is 'locally executed, state managed and federally supported.'
WASHINGTON – Days after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee tweeted criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, his chief of staff got a call from an aide to’s office agreed Pence would fly to his state the next day, the aide had to run because Pence was talking to reporters and wanted to announce the trip in the next 30 seconds.
“He gets along with people, I think, much better than I do,” President Donald Trump said last week. “Mike can put up with things that – sometimes I say, `It’s amazing that he can put up with it.’ ” Asked about the governor’s interactions with Pence, spokesman Conor Cahill said Polis appreciates the vice president’s “responsiveness and accessibility” but “remains concerned about the clarity and transparency around the timing and qualities of the lifesaving supplies.”
“Most Americans disagree with the Trump administration’s position that the federal government is a backup to the states,” pollster Patrick Murray said. Seventy-three percent of Democrats surveyed April 9-10 say they have “not very much” or no trust in Pence, and 84% say that about Trump.of the administration’s Coronavirus Task Force in late February, the vice president noted that he was Indiana’s governor in 2014 when the first Middle East Respiratory Syndrome case in the USA emerged – in Indiana.
When Pence’s home state was very short on test kits last month, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb reached out to his predecessor for help. After Pence connected Holcomb with the CDC director, the state got a boost to tide it over until kits could be produced locally.
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