Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a each day political evaluation of the 2020 elections based mostly on reporting by New York Instances jour
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Demonstrators protested Washington State’s stay-home order to sluggish the coronavirus outbreak in Olympia on Sunday.
What People take into consideration sending medical help to states
After New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, introduced on Sunday that the state’s coronavirus an infection fee gave the impression to be “on a descent,” Trump reveled on this uncommon dose of cautiously constructive information.
Throughout his information convention on Sunday night time, the president performed a two-minute clip of Cuomo at his personal each day briefing, and he gave himself a pat on the again for serving to New York develop its hospital capability.
However Cuomo has additionally raised alarms concerning the lack of a nationwide framework for virus testing, repeatedly calling for extra federal help to ramp up testing. And he’s removed from the one governor to have raised comparable considerations. Mike DeWine, the Republican governor of Ohio, said on Sunday that the federal government should be doing more to make tests available.
But at Sunday’s briefing, Trump pushed back. “They said the same thing with ventilators, and now we have so many that we’re going to be able to send them and help other countries that are in need,” Trump said, dismissing demands for a more robust national testing system. “We’re doing great on testing.”
Polling suggests that Americans are not so sure. In a Fox News poll released this month, four in five voters nationwide said they were worried about their state running out of medical supplies, with more than half of those people describing themselves as very concerned.
In poll after poll, when it comes to confronting the pandemic, Americans are more likely to give high marks to their state governments than to the White House. But they still think the buck stops with the president. By a factor of nearly two to one, Americans said in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll that they ultimately considered the handling of the pandemic to be the federal government’s responsibility.
Fifty-four percent said in a recent Pew Research Center poll that Trump was not doing a good job of working with state governments. And 55 percent gave him low marks on responding to the needs of hospitals and medical professionals.
For Trump, an equally troubling number in that poll has to do with perceptions of his trustworthiness, as he seeks to shift blame for supply shortages away from himself. Respondents to the Pew poll were particularly unlikely to give him good marks on providing the public with reliable information about the pandemic. By a 15-point margin, Americans were more likely to say he was not doing this well.
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