Vice President Mike Pence was twice pressed on the wisdom of holding campaign rallies amid a coronavirus surge. As the administration's health experts looked on, Pence characterized attending a rally as a personal decision the government could not impede.
As those health experts -- including Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci -- looked on, Pence characterized attending a rally as a personal decision the government could not impede."The freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States," Pence said when asked -- during the first public briefing by the White House coronavirus task force in two months -- why he and President Donald Trump moved forward with campaign events.
"But he insisted an increase in cases could be explained partly by scaled-up testing, an explanation Trump has seized upon as he seeks to explain why the virus is still raging."To one extent or another, the volume of new cases coming in is a reflection of a great success in expanding testing across the country," Pence said.
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