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Some health experts said that, as head of the White House coronavirus task force, Pence should have been more careful to protect senior aides at The Villages.
“Three thousand elderly people without distancing and three-quarters without masks. That’s a bad combination, even if it was outdoors,” Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist with the Federation of American Scientists, told The Telegraph. “And the hypocrisy of Pence being the head of the Covid task force.”
Guy Cecil, the leader of the Democrat Super PAC Priorities USA, tweeted: “The leader of the United States response to Covid-19 is holding a super recreation event in a community of seniors. Shameful.”
Cases are increasing at The Villages. One in 66 residents has contracted the new coronavirus, according to data from the state Department of Health.
The vice president made little mention of the coronavirus in his 45-minute speech, focusing instead on his performance in Wednesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party vice presidential candidate.
“It’s great to be back in the Sunshine State, it’s great to be back in Trump’s country,” Pence said as he took the stage.
“It was a debate between two visions,” he told the crowd. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want higher taxes, open borders, and socialized medicines,” he said to boos from the audience, many of whom were over 55 and dependent on Medicare. “They want to abolish fossil fuels, they want taxpayer-funded abortions. They want to take the funds away from the police and fill the courts, ”he said to even louder boos.
