FILE - Vice President Mike Pence listens during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Health policy specialists are questioning Pence’s claim that federal rules on essential workers allow him to continue to campaign and not quarantine himself after exposure to multiple close staffers with COVID-19.
Campaigning is not an official duty that might fall under the guidelines meant to ensure that police, first responders and key transportation and food workers can still perform jobs that cannot be done remotely, the health experts said. Pence was holding a rally Sunday in North Carolina, events in Minnesota and Pennsylvania on Monday and more events in North Carolina and South Carolina on Tuesday. The most recent numbers show COVID-19 cases are rising in 75% of the country.
Pence also serves as president of the Senate, a largely ceremonial role outlined in the Constitution but one that stands to come into focus Monday.
Wow, so let's see. We need to test everyone, but when we are testing everyone. OMG we have more positive tests. Goofy logic.
The Republican party has 1 priority & it is not this country or everyday Americans. Its serving the top 10% while keeping the other 90% of America tearing each other apart for the scraps. 220,000 dead, millions out of work & 4 yrs of lies. Vote them out.
America Trump & Gop knew Covid19 danger- And Lied- at every Public appearance, Rally, Debate, News conference, Interview, Tweets & Facebook post, About masks, Discredited Doctors, CDC & WHO. 225,000 of us have died Because they lied Life & death is nothing to lie about.
Essential pandering and executive ego stroking, not a VP job but Puppet Pence's only purpose.
SethAbramson It's essential to keep Trump out of prison.
Buuuutttttt Obama can campaign for an office for which he isn’t even running?
no and he's a serial killer - maskless audience(s) infecting/ spreading - he's the grim reaper
The least he could have done is self-quarantine for 3 days. He has reckless disregard for his staff and the American family. So much for love one another.
Time to stop looking up to America as a beacon of democracy. That just isn’t the case at the moment.
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Not that he is essential, but essential workers have to quarantine after exposure just like everyone else.
'Experts'
Liberal CDC
That's just stupid, 'public health experts' aren't fighting for their jobs.
226,000 deaths and climbing. Trump lied. People died. Draft dodger. Tax dodger. TRUTH DODGER. Super Spreader. VOTE HIM OUT! 787,000 more file jobless claims this week. 25m unemployed. Don’t live in a cocoon of falsehoods. Trump is a Fear Monger.
“Public Health Experts” 🤣👍🏻
Obviously !!!✔
I’m a federal essential worker who was exposed to someone and cannot return to work for two weeks; even though I tested negative. I am actually needed where I work. If I am or allowed to go to work, then Pence shouldn’t be “working” either
Word should spread on this.. ProjectLincoln gtconway3d TheRickWilson reedgalen RadioFreeTom BillKristol MichaelSteele AmbJohnBolton Schwarzenegger
The ones who predicted 2 million deaths?
Especially not on the taxpayers dime.
But if he doesn't campaign, they can't win. That's why he and the president aren't working...they're campaigning.
The swamp comes to dinner!
But protesting was clearly essential lmao
Hell no.
The Vice President is only essential if there is no President. He could stay home and watch TV for all the constitutional duties he owns. PenceSpreadsTheVirus
I'm hoping you don't think you'll ever be president with Trump's stink all over you. Stick a fork in ya, you're done.
Criminally negligent comes to mind
jpaceDC They do not get to make this decision.
Haha! Your partisan slip is showing 🤣
Hell no
It really doesn't matter to them. That administration is going to continue doing whatever is in THEIR best interest. VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
Obey the law and order
SethAbramson It is non-essential work. Campaigning during an election is a little late. He should have been doing his job serving the American people for the past 3 & 3/4 years.
Momofsmi You know who else says VP is not essential work? The Constitution. And every dude who held the job until Gore.
But protesting is?
pro life? going across the country exposing yourself to them?
Dumb 💩
So called public health experts are scientists not candidates.
On Jan 20 VP will be no longer an essential worker
He’s only good for damage control....
He’s a trumpie which means he doesn’t care. Pence will do what his master tells him
Essential work to keep TrumpCrimeFamily out of PRISON!!!
Campaigning is freedom of speech. You can’t put a limit on speech
Quite possibility the most ridiculous story of the last six months. How do you even imagine this? Wow!
dandrezner I'll go one further: is *being* Vice President essential work? Not really.
KimRHolmes2 Pence is suppose to be the one in charge that’s suppose to understand! Pence has to Quarantine! His Boss is spreading the Virus enough!
Winning the news cycle! Any way needed!
You mean Democrat health people. The same people who said BLM protesters were ok but conservative protests were bad
Oh FFS ... If Biden is elected it’ll be a year before he is in elder care. Get a grip.
So Kamala is even less essential, because she’s not even that.
Layers of Botox don't make the claim to essential work any more honest either.
VPOTUS spreading virus & trumpfiction🐂💩💩
That picture is why Mike Pence isn’t allowed to be alone with a woman he doesn’t call mother.
Is reporting essential work?
but it's fine if KamalaHarris is campaigning?
Holy crap AP....😂....the reach
Well JoeBiden spends so much time in his basement, he’s proving campaigning for president is not an essential job.
But protesting, that’s essential work
They are part of the package. Not sure it really matters. There presence should be for their candidate.
my fear is that VP Joe Biden will get elected President and he’ll lockdown the country causing more businesses to fail, more people’s livelihoods to be ruined and depression. That’s my fear
dandrezner I question Pence as essential anything!!!
dandrezner Rules for thee but not for me. PestilencePence 🐎
SethAbramson Okay but since when is this administration known for following health experts?
dandrezner Pro life my ass. FakeChristian
Believe all scientists
Wow.
🤡
nahaltoosi Since when does the chairman of the pandemic task force listen to the health experts?
Agreed. He should be quarantining for everyone’s safety.
That’s right! Everyone go home and make the poor people bring you stuff.
SethAbramson His other *essential* work.
Harris was campaigning outside a polling station. Isn't that illegal?
Your a sick propagandist for George Soros
He is a big joke
neither is the reporting you all do - we can ALL definitely do without it - but they still let you do it
lmao
Well I guess Kamala will have to stop campaigning as well then.
SethAbramson No no no 😡
Let’s admit it. There is nothing essential about Pence.
Definitely Not
LoL out here running a smokescreen for Kamala
America is in real danger. The deep state is real. Can we trust the puppet (Biden)? Why do we vote the governors and local officials? The vice president did a wonderful job.
terilg Very debatable whether VP is even an essential job itself outside of breaking a tie in the Senate
The question is, who would you vote for if you knew the winner of this presidential election would not finish out his term in office? That is exactly what is on my mind.
He is as essential as he is moral, VOTE HIM OUT!
uhhhh. is he not trying to get his job?. sounds essential to me
What about Harris? I bet they are fine with her.
WOW He is not
purplesgem This is a big. Super-spreader NO on essential status.
SethAbramson NO NO NO NO NO NO VP SUPER SPREADER AND realDonaldTrump TrumpSurrendersToCovid
SethAbramson Essential in trying to keep Trump’s presidential-non-indictment privilege.
SethAbramson VP campaigning is not EssentialWork.
Him being VP isn’t essential either.
Of course not
No
Lol you guys have lost your minds
Didn’t Kamala just go around campaigning after her aides tested positive?
Knaves...
Stupidest tweet of the year. Must’ve been the 4 yr liberal arts degree that gave you all the critical thinking skills.
No but the Trump Admin’s just going to claim Pence heads the Covid19 task force making him an essential worker! You know the non existent Covid19 task force made up of mostly inexperienced volunteers! The task force that threw out Obama’s pandemic handbook in order to wing it🤦♂️😡
He's reckless just like the rest of them
What a shit show this entire administration is.
He’s trying to keep his job for four mor years. Kind of like applying for a job but it requires him to be interviewed by the public
Worthless news! AP is no longer for the people. Bye.
SethAbramson There is nothing essential about Pence. TrumpIsLosing
HE IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, NEXT TO NOTHING!!!
I think we're all pretty aware that this administration doesn't care about norms, rules, or laws if they are inconvenient to their needs.
SethAbramson Aaaaaaaa
It is to make essential workers sick- that’s the connection.
SethAbramson Nothing this guy does is essential.
Hey, Kamala Harris isolated for 4 days. It is further proof of the obvious, one ticket is ready to lead, the other ticket is ready to be sent home.
Just consider it a protest and then he can’t give it or catch it, works for the left🤷🏻♂️
Lol
Nope PenceSpreadsTheVirus COVID19
'National Security' can be used to justify any action no matter how ridiculous or immoral.
Jesus will protect him
Journalisming
Vice presidents have ceremonial posts and they are generally not essential, which would make their work and campaign non-essential.
There is literally nothing essential about this man.
He needs to pay more attention to Covid-19.
It probably is when you and your boss are facing many many years in prison if you lose!
Every job is essential
He reminds of Dan Quayle. Remember him?
Dems DESPERATE to slow down the Trump train!
I think he misunderstands what being leader of the pandemic means.
His body his choice.
It’s to better future of our country. I say yes, essential work for sure!
All read the follow up of Kamala Harris’ essential campaigning outside a polling station
Only on Opposite Day.
onthefence11 No!
When POTUS concluded he could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, he decided to take it to another order of magnitude by killing hundreds of thousands on streets all over the United States of America!
AP needs to figure out that we don't believe a word AP says.
Hell no! This is incompetence at the highest level!!!
They do not care about the American people or all the health care workers saving lives. It is sickening 😪
It doesn't matter as the Pubs have not followed the rules for anything from the get-go so why should we ever expect the reverse?
I say no. As yourself, Can I get by with hearing from the VP? My answer is yes, so there fore he is not essential. Can I get by without a RN or Doc? No they are essential
It’s essential to expose how ridiculous the media is.
BREAKING: According to sources in the administration that wish to remain unnamed, Vice President Pence’s fly has been transported to Walter Reed National Military Hospital in Bethesda , MD. DEVELOPING
Is a total offense to essential Healthcare and Food sector workers from Pence, to consider that going to super spreaders events to push misinformation is 'essential'. Trump and Pence are the same type of shameless.
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When they come out with crap like this. You know Pence is doing some harm to the democrats
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