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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2020 21:27:58 GMT
US Vice-President Mike Pence has visited a top US hospital without wearing a mask, despite the medical centre's own rules that visitors should wear personal protective equipment.
Mr Pence appeared to be the only person present without a facial covering at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
In a deleted tweet, the clinic said the vice-president had been notified in advance of its policy requiring masks.
Mr Pence leads the White House coronavirus taskforce.
He defended his decision as necessary in order to meet with staff and patients.
The US government's own coronavirus-prevention advice is that people should wear face coverings "in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain".
The Mayo Clinic itself requires all patients and visitors to its medical centres to wear a mask or face covering.
Mr Pence was accompanied by commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration Dr Stephen Hahn, who wore a mask for the trip.
The visit came on the same day that the US coronavirus caseload topped one million and the number of deaths surpassed 57,000.
Asked by a reporter on Tuesday to explain why he did not wear a mask, the vice-president said he and everyone around him are regularly tested for the coronavirus.
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2020 19:13:19 GMT
Mike Pence defended his refusal to say “black lives matter” amid bipartisan calls for police reform following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, saying he disagrees with the political agenda put forth by leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I really believe that all lives matter,” the US vice-president said on CBS’s Face the Nation when pressed on why he won’t say the phrase. “And that’s where the heart of the American people lies.”
He added: “What I see in the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement is a political agenda of the radical left that would defund the police, that would tear down monuments, that would press a radical left agenda.”
Pence cited the influence of Martin Luther King Jr in his personal life and said that he cherishes “the progress that we have made toward a more perfect union for African Americans throughout our history.”
The vice-president had first declined to use the phrase during an interview on a Philadelphia television station on 19 June, saying instead that “all lives matter in a very real sense”.
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2020 19:21:34 GMT
Trump praised Pence's dodging of the question at Wednesday's head-to-head in Utah as he appeared on Fox News on Thursday to discuss his health. He tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
Speaking to the Hannity show last night, Trump said: "And then they talk about we want a peaceful transition of power. Peaceful transition. Mike Pence's best answer was that answer last night.
"Peaceful transition? Look what they did. They spent three and a half years trying to terminate a president."
Appearing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City earlier this week, Pence was asked by debate moderator Susan Page what he would personally do in the event that President Trump refused to accept a peaceful transfer of power after November 3.
"Well Susan, first and foremost I think we're going to win this election," Pence said. He later added: "I have every confidence that the same Americans who delivered that historic victory in 2016. They see this president's record... and I think that movement of Americans has only grown stronger over the past four years."
He then told Senator Harris that her party had spent three years trying to "overturn" the results of the 2016 election, and accused the FBI of spying on the Trump campaign under the Obama administration.
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Post by Admin on Oct 11, 2020 19:29:44 GMT
As Mike Pence spoke to retirees in Florida on Saturday, a banner towed by a plane flew over his head: “Pence is why you can’t see your grandkids.” The vice president addressed members of The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, warning the largely maskless crowd that the election would determine “whether America remains America.” It was not immediately clear who was behind the banner, which was captured on video. The Villages, usually a conservative stronghold, seems more and more contested territory in the 2020 election. On the same day as Pence’s speech, a parade of golf carts carrying senior citizens headed towards the polls to drop off ballots for former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2020 2:42:51 GMT
Everything was going so well — until the fly.
After the misery of “Saturday Night Live”’s Trump-Biden debate sketch last week, the show desperately needed to improve on its all-important political satire. We’re weeks away from a presidential election, and this material is their lifeblood.
Well, the comedy show mostly fixed things, until they fumbled the most memorable moment of Wednesday’s vice presidential debate: the fly.
“SNL” mystifyingly thought a funny take on the insect that squatted on Mike Pence’s head, and America’s HDTVs, for more than two minutes was an insane science-fiction storyline from 1986’s “The Fly,” in which Joe Biden (Jim Carrey) teleported to the venue, only to have his DNA mix with that of a bug.
Before this strange, aspiring 1980s East Village performance art piece, the sketch had made amends for the clunkers from last week. First, they gave the moderator role to the show’s best cast member: Kate McKinnon.
“I’m Susan Page, and I missed book club for this,” she said, hilariously. McKinnon, like she always does, turned even her non-jokes into bliss.
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