Donald Trump started to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously when he was told that GOP-leaning voters in swing states crucial to his re-election bid this November could be affected.
A senior administration official told the Washington Post: “In the past couple of weeks senior advisers began presenting Trump with maps and data showing spikes in coronavirus cases among ‘our people’ in Republican states.”
“They also showed projections, predicting that virus surges could soon hit politically important states in the Midwest—including Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin,” the official told WaPo.
This new approached seem to have worked, at least so far. Trump remained largely on script during his coronavirus briefings last week. However, he’s still casting himself as the blameless victim in all of this.
“This could have been stopped. This could have been stopped quickly and easily,” Trump said at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday. “But for some reason, it wasn’t, and we’ll figure out what that reason was.”
So far, the U.S. has more than 4.2 million confirmed coronavirus cases and over 146,000 deaths.
Read the story on the Washington Post.
