White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway
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“I think people want to know about the President of the United States,” he told reporters. “It doesn’t have to be daily. It doesn’t have to be for two hours. But in my opinion it has to be.”
Conway, one of the president’s most senior advisers, said he believes it would be beneficial for Trump to once again be the face of the government’s response “because the pandemic continues and he has done a solid job of leading our country through it.”
He noted that Trump’s approval ratings for the pandemic were higher when he joined members of the White House coronavirus task force for near-daily briefings in March. The president has not participated in that briefing since late April, and only occasionally talks about the pandemic by bragging about his response and highlighting the development of the vaccine.
“It is no coincidence that the president’s handling of the coronavirus in public opinion when he was addressing himself, again, did not need anyone there for two hours, but he was there with his doctors, and everyone answered questions and presented information when the The news was very serious and devastating every day, “Conway told reporters.
An ABC News / Washington Post poll released on Friday showed that 60 percent of respondents disapprove of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, up from 53 percent in May. The poll found that 38 percent of respondents approved of the president’s coronavirus response.
A Quinnipiac University poll released this week found that 62 percent of voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, compared to 35 percent who approved. The same poll found in early April that 46 percent of respondents approved of the response to the Trump virus.
The president appeared at press conferences on the coronavirus almost daily during March and April, where he joined public health officials to discuss the administration’s efforts to produce fans and other supplies and combat the spread of the virus.
Briefings would often get off the topic, as Trump would answer journalists’ questions, and would frequently attack governors and complain that he was not receiving adequate credit for his administration’s response.
The appearances ended abruptly in late April after Trump sparked a widespread reaction by suggesting to scientists that they study whether the injection of light or disinfectants into the body could be used as a cure for the virus.
Vice President Pence and other members of the task force have begun giving weekly briefings this month as several states face significant increases in the number of cases.
Trump has continued to downplay the severity of those spikes, even as the country confirmed more than 75,000 new cases Thursday. He has attributed the increases to expanded testing capacity, despite experts saying the increase in infections is due to the virus spreading across the country.
And Trump as recently as last month again claimed that the virus “would just go away.”
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