Are Partisan Politics Shaping How America Responds To Coronavirus Crisis? Unlisted Video

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The partisan split on how President Donald Trump is handling the coronavirus pandemic is wide.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that while 81% of Republican voters approve, 84% of Democrats disapprove.
According to Politico, among independent voters, 43% approve of the president's performance, and 52% disapprove.
More strikingly, a significant share of voters, mostly Republicans, say they don’t expect the outbreak to have major effects on their daily lives.
That view that runs entirely counter to the recommendations of public-health officials.
Simply put, it is very clear that partisanship has infected our views of the coronavirus. Jeff Horwitt Democratic pollster

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