'People aren't stupid': Pence's virus spin tests credibility
Source: Associated Press
People arent stupid: Pences virus spin tests credibility
By JILL COLVIN
July 4, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Mike Pence has long played the straight man to Donald Trump, translating the presidents bombast into more measured, calming language.
His job has become even more difficult. As coronavirus cases spike across large parts of the country despite months of lockdown, Pence has spent the past week trying to convince the American public that things are going very well, even though theyre not.
Make no mistake about it, what you see today is that America is going back to work and the American people are finding a way every day to put this coronavirus farther in the past, he told CNBC the same day the country reported more than 55,000 new virus cases, a daily record.
For public health experts, the optimism has been unmoored from reality.
Its almost laughable because it doesnt pass any test of credibility when were seeing spikes in cases, spikes in hospitalizations, said Larry Gostin, who specializes in public health at Georgetown University Law School. The American people arent stupid. They can see spin when there is spin.
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