… The Kaiser Family Foundation polling from July found that Republicans make up most of the pool of the unvaccinated — and an even larger percentage of those who refuse to get vaccinated out-of-hand (as opposed to simply being wary of the vaccines).
This is the bind. For health, economic and political reasons (likely in that order), Biden wants more Americans to be vaccinated. Most of those who aren’t are Republicans, meaning that most of the arms his new order will twist are attached to members of the opposing party. This affords an opportunity to those who want to gin up fury against Biden and Democrats, one that they wasted no time in exploiting. CONTINUED
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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