Donald Trump trails in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election, partly on the basis of his handling of the pandemic .In the early days of what became a historic public health crisis, the novel coronavirus was, in the lexicon of U.S. politics, a"blue state" problem - centered in East and West Coast areas, particularly New York and New Jersey, that voted against President Donald Trump in 2016.
It remained so for weeks, and that fact defined what became battle lines between mask wearers and skeptics, and between those convinced restrictions on commerce were needed to save lives versus those who wanted less government intervention.Trump trails in opinion polls ahead of the Nov.
For a while in the spring it looked like the hands-off approach might work. The daily growth in new cases declined in the hard-hit Northeast corridor, while remaining level in the Trump states of the South and Midwest.But when summer arrived, and places started lifting restrictions, that brief moment of control also ended. So did the virus's focus in blue state America.
The gap in case growth narrows somewhat when adjusting for population by looking at numbers of new infections for each million people.Some argue that case numbers can be inflated by the accessibility or use of testing.Blue America has still experienced more Covid-19 fatalities per million people.
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