WH Lavishes Pandemic Praise on Michigan Gov. Whitmer As She Presides Over Worst COVID Hotspot in US

White House press secretary 👤Jen Psaki defended Democratic Gov. 👤Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan as COVID-19 cases spike in the “Great Lake State.”

Psaki said that the governor has “shown some serious grit” in the face of the pandemic and threats to her personal safety in the past year.

The press secretary highlighted Whitmer’s push for more personal protective equipment and more testing in the early days of the pandemic “when the federal government told governors that they were, frankly, on their own and to figure it out on their own.”

“She has had to endure not just a public health crisis and a hostile state legislature, but friends who have passed from the virus, armed aggression in the state capitol and threats against her life. She’s also had to coordinate a disaster response to a faulty dam burst, all while doing all of this, in a devastated Michigan community,” Psaki said.

“So we feel she’s shown some serious grit, fight and resolve,” the press secretary added.

“We’re going to continue to work with her on how we can help address the uptick in her state and help deploy the resources we have available.”

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Michigan became a COVID-19 hotspot and recorded an average of over 7,000 new cases per day, according to The New York Times