Most Republicans are rallying behind President Donald Trump’s calls for a quick reopening of businesses closed by coronavirus shutdowns, while Democrats strongly favor a more cautious approach, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey. …
“What we have here is a very real partisan split that you don’t expect to find in a public health epidemic,” said Robert Blendon, a Harvard professor of health policy and political analysis who helped design the poll. “I think the president and many Republican leaders in the Congress have really defined getting the economy going as a critical issue, where Democrats don’t buy into that focus.” CONT.
Rachel Roubein, Politico
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