There’s fierce debate over when to reopen the U.S. economy, and the partisan gap is opening wide. Americans feel the timeline for things to return to “normal” has been pushed back dramatically.
A large majority of the public still prioritize staying home to slow the outbreak, over reopening the economy, partly because they continue to think efforts to contain the outbreak are going badly. But now there’s a growing gap between Republicans and others on reopening, as Republicans increasingly adopt the White House’s call to do so: 62% of Republicans want the country to prioritize going back to work even if it exposes more people to the virus; that’s up 10 points from three weeks ago in late April. CONT.
Anthony Salvanto & Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News
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