Kristi Noem compares other states' COVID-19 response to Chinese Communist Party
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In a talk about COVID-19 policies, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem called government restrictions a "power grab" not unlike actions taken by the Chinese Communist Party.
"Really what happened is the Chinese Communist Party and their grab of control, their communist control… we brought that into this country and states instituted that same government exercise of power grab that frankly in this country should be alarming to us," Noem said. "We saw that in states that was much like what China was implementing. It was a communist method for grabbing control into the government." Ronn Blitzer is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics and breaking news.
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