[See NewsBusters for more.] During a Wednesday interview with Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer on MSNBC, White House correspondents Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander sounded more like White House press secretaries as they urged battled Comer on everything from COVID messaging to inflation to President Biden’s economic record.
On COVID restrictions being lifted, Welker referenced a clip of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s State of the Union response and wondered why Republicans are complaining, “She argued specifically and you heard her there in the clip we just played saying that schools should have reopened sooner, restrictions should have been lifted faster. Do you worry that, that type of messaging could backfire at this point given the fact that basically everything is opening up now?”