Governors

President Donald Trump unleashed heavy criticism for several U.S. governors Monday for allowing rioting and looting in their states, describing them as weak.

The personal finance website WalletHub conducted a survey to see which states had the least coronavirus restrictions and which had the most.

Several blue state governors have refused to listen to the cries of their residents begging them to reopen their respective states, instead issuing threats against localities and business owners who fail to comply with their orders — threats that have, largely, failed to come to fruition.

Restaurants across America are beginning to open up with new protocols and creative solutions that allow customers to dine safely.

Vice President Mike Pence’s close personal relationship with governors of both parties has been a key to the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, White House advisers told Breitbart News.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) and the National Retail Federation (NRF), trade associations representing major players in the retail industry like Walmart Inc. and Target Corp., crafted a blueprint outlining a uniform, three-phased approach to reopen stores across the country, which they plan to send to governors on Monday.

“They know when it’s time to open and we don’t want to put pressure on anybody. I’m not putting any pressure on the governor to open,” Trump said.

An arms race of sorts has emerged between red states and blue states to reopen America, with Democrat and Republican governors developing rivaling plans to lead their states out of the darkness of the coronavirus crisis while the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force and President Donald Trump’s ultimate decision looms large over the country.

The president explained his plan in a letter to America’s governors, a copy of which was shared with reporters.

Some Democrat governors have voiced some modest appreciation for the administration’s efforts, especially with Vice President Mike Pence, but others have aired some criticism of the president’s overall response to the virus.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was answering a question about what to say to people who think women cannot win elections when she forgot the name of the female governor of Kansas.

An Iranian national who was arrested about five miles from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, originally arrived in the United States as a refugee, Breitbart News has learned.

A number of Republican governors are doing damage control after they approved more refugee resettlement in their states, including Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

A Morning Consult survey released Thursday showed that the top 14 most popular governors in America are Republicans.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is frequently at odds with President Donald Trump, but told reporters Monday during a visit to Washington, DC, that he wanted to maintain a connection with the president in spite of it all.

President Trump, so often maligned as thin-skinned and divisive, is teaching us how to talk to those with whom we disagree. We may, against the odds, begin to solve some of our problems.

Governors across the country are weighing in on the debate in Washington, DC, around the Graham-Cassidy healthcare legislation designed to start the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

If ever there was a non-politician poised to follow Donald Trump’s path to an executive office, it was Tommy Tuberville, who went an incredible 5-2 against Top 5 teams during his football coaching career.

Republicans dominate the list of highest-rated governors in the nation, according to a Morning Consult poll published Tuesday morning.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence reaffirmed President-elect Donald J. Trump’s commitments today at a conference of the Republican Governor’s Association, where he spoke about Obamacare, national infrastructure, education, the border, and immigration policy.

More than half of America’s fifty governors—including a Democrat—refuse to accept President Obama’s Syrian refugees. Unfortunately for them, federal law allows the president to resettle as many refugees as he wants. But Congress can stop him.

On Monday, California Gov. Jerry Brown stated California would help accept Syrian refugees, and argued that they would be “fully vetted in a sophisticated and utterly reliable way.”

The Saudi-funded, terror-tied Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is slamming Republican Governors over their efforts to oppose the import of refugees from Syria into the United States.