Psaki: No "EMBROIDERED Invitation" For Trump

After first sucking up to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for her baseball skills, Fox's Peter Doocy tries to get her to ask former Pres. Trump for help... and then another reporter tries to get her to give Trump more CREDIT.

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Go ahead.

Q Thank you, Jen. And great throw yesterday —

MS. PSAKI: Thank you.

Q — at the Nationals.

MS. PSAKI: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Q On vaccine hesitancy: As COVID-19 cases rise, if this is becoming a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and you guys are having a hard time getting a certain part of the population to go get the shot, would President Biden ever call former President Trump and say, “I need your help. Let’s cut a PSA and tell people to go do it”?

MS. PSAKI: Well, first, I would say that what we’ve seen in our data is that the most trusted voices are local officials, doctors, medical experts, civic leaders, clergy, from time to time — and that is where we have really invested our funding and our resources.

We’ve seen almost every former President play a role in putting out a PSA, making sure people understood in the country that the vaccine is safe and effective. We don’t believe that requires an embroidered invitation to be a part of.

But certainly, any role of anyone who has a platform where they can provide information to the public that the vaccine is safe, it is effective, we don’t see this as a political issue, we’d certainly welcome that engagement.

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Q Thanks, Jen. I have a follow up to Peter’s question about Trump —

MS. PSAKI: Sure.

Q — and I have my own vaccine question.

MS. PSAKI: Okay.

Q In my follow up, even if the administration doesn’t partner with the former President, would it consider highlighting or acknowledging, in a greater way, his role in creating the vaccines to assure the rural voters who still support President Trump and are hesitant to get the vaccine?

MS. PSAKI: Well, I think you’re — do you have data to suggest that that’s the issue that’s preventing people from getting vaccinated?

Q Well, we’re seeing that the communities — the communities that have the lowest vaccination rates did seem to vote for President Trump.

MS. PSAKI: Okay. But what I’m asking you is if information related to whether or not the former President got credit is leading people not to get vaccinated, or is it information like microchips in vaccines and it causing fertility issues, causing health issues. Because you’re drawing a few conclusions there that I haven’t seen in data, but maybe you have that information to provide.

Q No, but I think it’s just — it’s a — I think it’s an issue — I mean, I think it’s a common sense that these are people who supported him. These are people who are hesitant to get vaccinated. I don’t think it takes a lot to draw the conclusion.

MS. PSAKI: Well, let me — let me be very clear. Our — our objective is to ensure all Americans will get vaccinated. That would be — of course, we’d love — we’d love that. Democrats, Republicans, independents — it’s not a political issue to us. The virus does not — (the Press Secretary swats at a fly) — sorry — the virus does not look at people’s party affiliation. We recognize that. The President is going to govern for all people.

What I’m conveying to you is you’re jumping to a few conclusions that I don’t think data backs up, in terms of what the impacts are. And what we’re seeing is that misinformation, traveling in a range of means — whether it’s social media platforms, some forms of media, some elected officials — is having the biggest factor as it relates to individuals not getting vaccinated because people don’t have access to accurate information.