Former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are lately each trying to convince GOP voters that the other was too strict in responding to Covid-19.
Their disparate recollections of the coronavirus’ arrival in 2020 were on full display as the 2024 presidential hopefuls campaigned New Hampshire last week. DeSantis, at a Tuesday town hall in Hollis, said Trump made a “catastrophic mistake” by putting Anthony Fauci in charge of the country’s coronavirus response. Speaking about 40 miles north and two hours later that same day, Trump told a Concord crowd that DeSantis “loved Fauci at the beginning.
Unclear is how much the pandemic will weigh on GOP voters when they choose their nominee. In a March CNN-SSRS poll, less than 1% of potential Republican primary voters mentioned Covid-19 in an open-ended question about which issue would be most important to their decision. Gallup findings released Thursday showed that 84% of Republicans think the pandemic is over and less than 10 percent of Republicans are worried about getting Covid-19.
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