Pence extends the olive branch to Cummings after Trump's attacks in Baltimore

Pence, speaking at the GOP Retreat House at the Marriott Waterfront, called on Republicans to promote a "positive" agenda involving including working with Democrats – including Cummings, who is conducting several investigations into Trump administration as chairman of the House oversight and reform committee.

"Make it clear, while I'm in Baltimore, that Republicans and this President are willing to work with Democrats, including Elijah Cummings, to improve the lives of people in cities like Baltimore and fight the illicit drug crisis. opioid abuse, "said Pence. "We will work with everyone."

"We need to set a Republican agenda in the days ahead, an agenda that makes our neighborhoods safer, our families stronger, our middle class bigger and more prosperous than ever," he added. "The best is yet to come and we must offer this positive vision."

Trump spoke to legislators in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday night; he made only a brief reference to Baltimore. However, his mention of the city was much less conciliatory than that of Pence.

"We will fight for the future of cities like Baltimore, which have been destroyed by decades of failed and corrupt regimes," said Trump.

Thursday marked Trump's first visit to Baltimore since the attack on Cummings and its district, which includes the city, at the end of July, following a hearing of the monitoring committee on the situation on the US-Mexico border.

"The border is clean, efficient and well managed, just very cluttered," Trump told Twitter at the time.

Trump wrote that the district that Cummings represents "is a disgusting mess, infested with rats and rodents.If he was spending more time in Baltimore, he might be able to help clean up this very dangerous and dirty place."

"No human being would want to live there," Trump added.

Trump's attack on Cummings, who is African-American, came after he suggested to four members of the first year of Congress to "go back and help fix the totally devastated and infested places." the crime from where they came from. "

Republicans in the House have scheduled their retreat in Baltimore before Trump denigrates the city.

"I think the president coming here symbolizes the fact that yes, he cares about Baltimore, he cares about the people who live in Baltimore and he does not accept that you stay in poverty," McCarthy told reporters. journalists at a press conference.