Ten u. S. States reported on friday the highest number of new covid cases ever. That figure coming from Johns Hopkins university. One of those states is wisconsin, where the president held a Campaign Rally on saturday. As you can see here, he had one the same day in michigan as well, which has also been breaking covid case records. Instead of mentioning these alarming new figures, the president criticized the states governor for how these handling the pandemic. I want to play you a little bit of that. Get your schools open. The schools have to be open, right . It will happen. Lock her up, lock her up lock them all up. Lock her up, lock her up so those lock her up chants you heard are for michigan governor gretchen whitmer, the same governor who was the target of an alleged kidnapping not earlier this month. She says this is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is putting her, her family, and other officials in harms way. She says its just one of the ways mr. Trump is trying to fire up his
Birtherism where she honed in on sharper language on Donald Trumps comments and his unwillingness to apologize for that episode. Reporter thats right, peter. This is obviously a personal issue for Michelle Obama and her family. We have seen her approach this. This is the second time i have been on the campaign trail with her. The day she first appeared at a solo event for Hillary Clinton was the day of the press Conference Donald Trump gave. We were watching carefully to see how she would approach what he had to say about the president s birth certificate. She sharpened those remarks today but Michelle Obama still doesnt use Donald Trumps name when she goes after him. Its a signal that shes trying to be a little bit apolitical. Thats part of her value to the Clinton Campaign. They feel she is an advocate that speaks to a wider group, who is enormously popular. It sounds like shes developing something of a standard stump speech. We heard a lot of similar things that we did at the earlie