May 17, 2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/542879-maryland-gop-governor-praises-biden-after-primetime-covid-19-address

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) praised President Biden

Joe BidenManchin cements key-vote status in 50-50 Senate The Memo: How the COVID year upended politics Post-pandemic plans for lawmakers: Chuck E. Cheese, visiting friends, hugging grandkids MORE on Thursday after his prime-time telecasted address relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and his administration’s continuing vaccine effort.

In a tweet following the president’s speech, Hogan thanked Biden for embracing suggestions that addressed his calls to increase production and supply of the COVID-19 vaccine around the nation.

” I praise President Biden for embracing numerous of our suggestions to increase the production of vaccines. We are prepared to administer every vaccine that the federal government can provide. We are all in this together, and we will end this pandemic together,” Hogan stated.

Throughout his speech Thursday night, Biden promoted the administration’s efforts to increase production and circulation of the coronavirus vaccines. The president likewise revealed that he is requiring states to make all grownups eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by Might 1.

In a 2nd tweet Hogan, whose partner Yumi Hogan is Korean American, thanked the president for speaking up versus an increasing tide of hate criminal activities and violence experienced by Asian Americans throughout the U.S.

” Our household significantly values the president’s remarks condemning the horrible increase in hate criminal activities versus Asian Americans. It really is ‘un-American and it needs to stop,'” he tweeted, referencing a quote from Biden’s address.

His remarks come simply days after a current wave of attacks targeting Asian Americans in California; cops arrested a suspect on Tuesday after a senior Asian American guy was pushed to the ground and robbed. A Buddhist temple in the state was also struck by vandalism this month.

On Thursday night, Biden condemned the “vicious hate criminal activities” versus the Asian American and Pacific Islander neighborhoods, mentioning, “It’s incorrect. It’s un-American. And it needs to stop.”

Hogan, centrist Republican politician, was one of just a few GOP chosen authorities to come out in assistance of previous President TrumpDonald TrumpThe Memo: How the COVID year upended politics Biden seeks his moment with pandemic address  A year with the coronavirus: How we got here MORE‘s impeachment following the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.

” I believe there’s no concern that America would be much better off if the president would resign or be eliminated from workplace and if Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFederal judge rules ‘QAnon shaman’ too dangerous to be released from jail Supreme Court rejects Trump ally challenge to Georgia Senate runoffs Pence planning first public speech since leaving office MORE, the vice president of the United States, would carry out a tranquil shift of power over the next 13 days till President [Joe] Biden is sworn in,” Hogan stated in January, a day after the riot.