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Ark Governor's Vaccine Strategy, Weighs In On Trump Influence On GOP's Future

Courtesy: Chuck Smith / Red River Radio News
Credit Courtesy: Chuck Smith / Red River Radio News
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Courtesy: Chuck Smith / Red River Radio News

ARKANSAS COVID-19 VACCINES— Republican  Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas  says the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine has been “seamless” under the administration of President Joe Biden but he did say that getting all the doses allocated into the arms of Arkansans is a challenge. Appearing on the Sunday morning ABC news interview program “This Week” Hutchinson explained his state’s vaccination strategy.

We're a rural state. And we don't want to do it just in our population center,”Hutchinson said. “Not as efficient, but it is fair because it gets it into the minority populations, the rural areas of our state, it's more fair, and that's what we're trying to accomplish.”

The state reported on Saturday that just shy of 300,000 of the 520,000 doses Arkansas has received of the coronavirus vaccine have been given which is about 60%.  During his interview, Governor Hutchinson was also asked to comment on the Republican party’s reaction to the siege on the  Nation’s  Capitol  three weeks ago and about former-President Donald Trump’s influence on the GOP going forward.

Gov Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas
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Courtesy: ABC News
Gov Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas

"(Former) President Trump has helped build the party in the last four years. I hope he does not help to destroy the party in the coming four years,” Hutchinson explained. “And we need to have a level of accountability. We also need to make sure that we don’t tear ourselves apart as we go into the midterm elections next year and beyond that.”

The  Senate Impeachment Trial of Former-President Trump begins in the Nation’s Capitol  Next week.  Governor Asa Hutchinson served in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming the Governor of Arkansas.

The Governor of Arkansas explains his state's covid-19 vaccine strategy and also weighs in on Trump influence on the GOP's future.

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Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' experience to Red River Radio having started out as a radio news reporter and moving into television journalism as a newsmagazine producer / host, talk-show moderator, programming director and managing producer and news director / anchor for commercial, public broadcasting and educational television. He has more recently worked in advertising, marketing and public relations as a writer, video producer and media consultant. In pursuit of higher learning, Chuck studied Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.