Governors emerge into national spotlight as they deftly deal with coronavirus
Governors across the country have stepped up to combat the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks, turning a group of one-time anonymous state officials into influential executives with growing national profiles.
Where the federal government has struggled to respond, many governors have stepped into the void and used their broad powers to stem the spread of the virus.
Republicans Mike DeWine of Ohio and Larry Hogan of Maryland bucked some early skepticism inside their party and quickly acted to prepare their states for coronavirus. DeWine, before the state had a single reported case of the virus in early March, shut down a money-making sports festival and later pushed for his state to move its primary. And Hogan, in late February, began to put together early legislation to fund fighting coronavirus and canceled out of state travel for workers.
Democrats like New York's Andrew Cuomo, California's Gavin Newsom and Washington's Jay Inslee, at the same time, have deftly dealt with their states' respective outbreaks. Cuomo's daily press briefings have become closely watched television as he delivers need-to-know information about essential services and ventilators to New Yorkers, while Newsom became the first governor to institute a statewide stay-at-home ban. Inslee was in the thick of it early on, meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and leading the response as his state became a hot spot long before many others.
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