Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says protests against stay-at-home orders are undermining Michigan's COVID-19 response. 'While I respect people's right to dissent, they need to do it in a way that is responsible and does not put others at risk,' she tells TheView.
Earlier this week, Whitmer urged Vice President Mike Pence to discourage the protests during a call with governors, according to audio of the call obtained by ABC News, in an effort to protect rural communities from potentially being afflicted by the large-scale gatherings, which she said could further spread the coronavirus in those areas after protesters return home.
Whitmer asked the vice president, to the extent that he can, to"reinforce kind of those needs to take this seriously" and added,"if discouraging protests is something you could consider doing, I'd really be grateful." When asked about her request of the vice president, and President Trump's tweets calling on the governor to"liberate" Michigan amid the pitched battles over the lockdown, Whitmer asserted that the protests only exacerbate the need for the stay-at-home orders they are demonstrating against.
"This is calls to violence, this is racist and misogynistic and I ask that everyone who has a platform uses it to call on people to observe the best practices promulgated by the CDC and to stop encouraging this behavior because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to re-engage our economy which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do," she continued.
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