GOP Gov Deflates Trump’s Claim There Aren’t Testing Issues: ‘Yeah, That’s Just Not True’

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) speaks at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on April 23, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) got candid on Tuesday when asked about President Donald Trump’s claim that there haven’t been issues with the chaotic testing system during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“I haven’t heard about testing being a problem,” Trump told all the nations’ governors during a conference call on Monday.

“Yeah, that’s just not true,” Hogan said the next day during an interview with NPR’s “Inside Edition” host Rachel Martin. “I mean, I know that they’ve taken some steps to create new tests, but they’re not actually produced and distributed out to the states.”

“So it’s an aspirational thing and they’ve got some new things in the works, but they’re not actually out on the streets and no state has enough testing,” he added.

The governor told NPR that he and his colleagues were following the advice of the medical experts on the White House coronavirus task force, such as doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.

Fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts had a similarly frank reaction last week to Trump’s rosy vision of the coronavirus outbreak.

“Yeah, no,” Baker said when a reporter asked if his state would be ready to lift social distancing measures by Easter, as Trump had hoped.

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  1. What’s this? Some good Republicans? Do you think this is a trend???

  2. Repost from Fauci thread

    Just dove in the twitter thread that Josh referred to in his latest Edblog on rosy scenarios…

    They assume Wuhan social distancing response for measures that are not even close…

    The curves appear to be the confidence interval on the best-case scenario…

    I wish I had the shit they are smoking in my steadily dwindling stash…

    and the link itself

  3. I suppose that reality still intrudes on some Republicans. Good to see but it still feels a little late…though that’s better than the alternative.

  4. Though he’s ‘proto Trump’, I’m going to miss Hogan, when he decides to retire.

  5. Churchill:

    “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

    Trump:

    “Don’t call”

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