In a new poll, 23 percent of Democrats say the worst of the coronavirus outbreak is behind us. Among Republicans, it's 71 percent
It was a tough few weeks there, but things are looking up, the president’s fans believe.
Phase two — when Trump began doing daily briefings and then embraced extended social-distancing and stay-at-home orders — was obviously when his message and that of his political opponents came closest to converging, at least in terms of what Americans should have been doing at that particular moment. Perhaps the peak of this less upbeat messaging was on April 22, the day he criticized Georgia governor Brian Kemp for prematurely reopening Georgia businesses.
[W]e asked Americans about the steps they have taken to adopt 11 preventative health behaviours, ranging from washing their hands more frequently and wearing a face mask, to purchasing extra food and supplies. While a clear majority of people from both parties are adopting crucial health behaviours, such as washing their hands more often, we found notable partisan differences.
That’s nothing compared to the partisan gap currently evident now that Trump has shifted his focus from health measures to a post-pandemic campaign to revive the economy. Here’s the new, improved POTUS message, according to Peter Baker of the New York Times last week: For a president who had staked his legacy on an economic record that was shredded by the crisis, moving on may seem like the best way to salvage his chances for re-election this fall. He tried to signal that this week by saying that his coronavirus task force would soon begin winding down …At a news briefing later in the afternoon [of May 6], Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, described the task force’s battle with the virus as if it were largely past.
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