Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) stumbled over his response Monday when asked whether the Obama administration has responded appropriately to the Ebola crisis.
“I would say that it’s hard to know because I haven’t heard the latest briefing on that, to know all the details,” Pryor said after a long pause, in response to a question from MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt. “I read the paper and all. But my impression is we have people over there both from the CDC and other medical-type people, and even some engineers to try to build, you know, medical facilities. That’s what they need over there, they need the medical infrastructure.”
Pryor paused again when Hunt asked if the Obama administration had been aggressive enough in its response to the deadly virus.
“Again, I’d have to see the latest numbers,” he said.
Pryor tapped into public concern over the Ebola virus for an ad he ran in August against his rival in the Arkansas Senate race, Rep. Tom Cotton (R). The ad suggested Cotton left Americans vulnerable to a potential Ebola pandemic by voting to cut medical disaster and emergency programs.
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