Breaking Wisconsin congressman blames coughing fit on dry throat
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Breaking The campaign manager for a Wisconsin congressman whose coughing fit on the bellow Republican Social gathering conference drew licensed attention says he turned into as soon as tormented by nothing extra than a dry throat
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SCOTT BAUER Associated Press
July 13, 2020, 7: 34 PM
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MADISON, Wis. —
A Wisconsin congressman whose coughing fit on the bellow Republican Social gathering conference drew licensed attention because masks had been no longer required on the match turned into as soon as tormented by nothing extra than a dry throat, his campaign mentioned Monday.
U.S. Bring collectively. Glenn Grothman, 65, started coughing uncontrollably Saturday when he started his speech on the conference earlier than about 300 attendees at a Inexperienced Bay conference heart. The match proceeded at the same time as Wisconsin has considered a spike in coronavirus cases, breaking a day-to-day file for newly confirmed cases for a third straight day on the day of the conference.
“It be time to chat about Donald John Trump,” mentioned an unmasked Grothman, earlier than coughing for roughly 10 seconds and loosening his tie. Grothman regained his composure and proceeded to give a protection of Trump’s first length of time in place of job on a unfold of things.
One clip of him coughing that circulated on Twitter had been viewed extra than 4.3 million times as of Monday morning. Democratic U.S. Bring collectively. Ticket Pocan, who represents the Madison bellow in Congress, commented on Grothman’s coughing with, “Wow.”
“Congressman Grothman’s cough turned into as soon as resulting from a dry throat and a want for a drink of water,” Grothman’s campaign manager Alec Hanna mentioned in an e mail Monday. “It has no longer persisted and he is exhibiting no various signs associated with COVID-19. He beforehand took a COVID-19 test, with a negative result.”
Grothman’s district involves rural, metropolis and suburban areas between Madison, Inexperienced Bay and Milwaukee.
Attendees on the bellow GOP conference had been equipped masks but no longer required to keep on them. The Wisconsin Democratic Social gathering held an all-digital bellow conference in June resulting from concerns over COVID-19. The Democratic National Conference is slated to be held in Milwaukee in August, but will be tremendously scaled support resulting from the pandemic.
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