President Trump mocked Joe Biden for his mask wearing at a campaign rally last week, saying, “Did you ever see a man who likes a mask as much as him?”
Polling has shown that the public overwhelmingly backs mask requirements, which Mr. Biden has long supported. President Trump, on the other hand, has ridiculed mask wearing at times — although he did at one point call it patriotic — and he has rejected some other policies that many Americans support to fight the coronavirus.
So you might expect voters to punish him on Election Day. …
To examine whether voters would punish Mr. Trump for views related to the virus, we conducted a survey of 3,877 Americans. CONT.
Eric Guntermann, Gabriel Lenz & Alexander Agadjanian (Berkeley), New York Times