.MaddowBlog: Gov. Reeves, pressed for answers about a public health catastrophe, appeared wholly uninterested in governing solutions.
,"The current coronavirus spike has hit the South hard, but a combination of poverty and politics made Mississippi uniquely unprepared to handle what is now the worst coronavirus outbreak in the nation."
Soon after, the host reminded Reeves,"Mississippi this week became the state with the worst number of coronavirus deaths per capita. In fact, if Mississippi were its own country, you would be second in the world, only to Peru, in terms of deaths per capita. That's a horrible, horrible, heartbreaking statistic."
In other words, presented with evidence of failure, the GOP governor's first thought was to suggest the United States would be better off with less governing. And so, Tapper asked the obvious follow-up question:"Are you going to change anything?" Reeves didn't answer that either, insisting only that Mississippi believes in"personal responsibility."'[W]hat President Biden is trying to do is save lives. Now, you can think that policy or it's unconstitutional, and that's fine. We can have that discussion. We already have. But he's trying to save lives. I'm saying to you, your way is not working.
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