President Donald Trump called out Governor JB Pritzker on how he is handling the coronavirus disease at a large rally just across the Northern Illinois border in Janesville, Wisconsin Saturday night and the Governor responded on Sunday.
The President was critical of some schools being closed in Illinois.
“Illinois could use a new Governor. That guy doesn’t know what’s happening. We got to open up that state. Kids have to get back to school.”
Trump said young people had an incredibly strong immune system and we need to get back to school. He claimed the closures were the result of politics and the upcoming election.
Governor Pritzker responded on CNN’s State of the Union says President Trump and his allies in Illinois are partly to blame for the surge in coronavirus cases.
“Modeling bad behavior. He doesn’t wear a mask in public. He has rallies where they don’t encourage people to wear masks in public. Truly this is now rhetoric that people understand, particularly in rural areas of my state that well the President doesn’t wear a mask, we don’t have to it’s not that dangerous. Well, the truth is it is that dangerous. And even if there are therapeutics coming online that are helping people, our hospitalizations are going up. People are having Long Hauler’s Syndrome once they are out of the hospital if they survive.”
The first-term Democrat says Trump’s local allies are encouraging people not to follow COVID-19 restrictions.
Illinois set a new record-high for cases on Friday.
