President Trump has a disadvantage when he picks fights with governors across the U.S.: They're far more popular than he is. Governors have a 69% approval for their handling of coronavirus, while Trump is at 44%, according to an average of national polls.
. For governors, FiveThirtyEight used fourth-quarter ratings from Morning Consult as a baseline. For Trump, we used Jan. 1 as his baseline.Here are highlights from the news from the weekend, including the White House coronavirus task force's briefings and the Sunday shows:During this weekend's briefings, it was a series of greatest hits from Trump.
said:"I think this is probably the No. 1 problem in America and has been from the beginning of this crisis — the lack of testing. ... The administration, I think, is trying to ramp up testing. They are doing some things with respect to private labs, but to try to push this off to say that the governors have plenty of testing, and they should just get to work on testing, somehow we aren't doing our jobs is just absolutely false.
Donald Trump left our country unprepared and unprotected for the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime — and now we're paying the price.
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