The whole thing started with this public health institute in Maryland called the de Beaumont Foundation. They’d been noticing with alarm that not only were Trump voters reluctant to get the vaccine, they were stubbornly so. Other hesitant groups seemed to be coming around to getting the vaccine, but not the Trump voters. The numbers in surveys hadn’t budged in months.
The head of the foundation, Brian Castrucci, realized, basically, we need someone who speaks Republican. CONTINUED
David Kestenbaum, This American Life
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