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They live in areas experiencing the fastest growth in coronary heart disease, but are also among the strongest Trump supporters.
President Donald Trump at an election rally in Nebraska in late October. Few wore face masks and many stayed together. Photo: JONATHAN ERNST, REUTERS / NTB
We are on our knees, President Donald Trump has said. But the number of coronary cases registered by. Today has never been higher in America. There have been several days with more than 100,000 new cases per. day. 20 of the nation’s 50 states had record infection rates this week. Midwestern states in particular have been hit hard, according to Reuters.
The Associated Press (AP) has done an analysis of where it is worse. They have linked the figures of an increase in infection with the results of this year’s presidential elections:
- In 376 of the counties with the highest number of new infections relative to population, there was a strong predominance of Trump’s votes.
- 93 percent of these counties had a majority of Trump voters.
Most of these live in rural areas of the states of Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin. With the exception of Wisconsin, a majority in all of these states have voted for Trump by a wide margin.
These are areas where fewer people have been concerned about social distancing, wearing bandages or other infection control rules, according to the news agency.
Cannot determine if a connection exists. Aftenposten’s own analysis of Trump’s support in the most infected states right now in election week does not indicate that support here has increased. But they are still solid Trump countries.
But polls show that Republican voters don’t consider the fight against the crown as important as Democrats.
The presidential elections have shown that Americans are divided in the middle on many issues. The corona pandemic has become one of them.
The final sprint in the vote count showed that many Republicans followed the president’s call to physically line up at the polling stations. Democratic voters, by contrast, made up the majority of those who have opted to send the ballot to the post office to avoid infection. In Pennsylvania, this came to the fore. Nearly three times as many Democratic voters as Republicans used mail-in ballots, Politico writes.
The difference in vision of the pandemic is evident in other ways as well.
A school in Arnold, Montana, is switching to digital education only after 5 percent of staff tested positive for COVID-19. Right now, there is a strong wave of infection in many of the Midwestern states. Photo: Colter Peterson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, AP / NTB
This Republican Senate candidate gets hugs from supporters at the polling station, but wears a mask. Infection control measures have divided Americans. Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP / NTB
In Election Day polls, voters have declared the economy a bigger issue than the crown pandemic for Republican voters. Seven out of 10 Trump voters believed rebuilding the economy should be a top priority rather than preventing the spread of the coronavirus, according to a CNN poll.
Polls also show that many more Trump voters than Biden’s believe the pandemic is under control:
- 36 percent of Trump voters in a poll of 110,000 voters responded that the pandemic was “completely” or “mostly” under control.
- 47 percent of the same electorate said the pandemic was “fairly” under control.
- But up to 82 percent of Biden voters believe the pandemic is not under control at all.
“I think the most important issue for our country as a whole is freedom,” Michaela Lane, 25, a Trump voter in Arizona, told the Associated Press. He wants to end what he describes as major public interventions and restrictions on people’s freedom.
President Donald Trump at an election rally in Nebraska in late October. Few wore face masks and many stayed together. Photo: JONATHAN ERNST, REUTERS / NTB
Presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris wore masks and were inconspicuous among people on the campaign trail. Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP / NTB
Dr. Marcus Plescia of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials says they should listen and try to understand those who are skeptical of infection control measures. He hopes that the situation will calm down after the elections and that later it will be easier to communicate with a call to follow the rules of infection control to prevent the health service from being overloaded.
Joe Biden has come with strong criticism of Trump’s handling of the corona pandemic. If you take command now, you will be faced with a population in which a large proportion are against strong infection control measures. Since the United States is a federal state, it also depends on cooperation with the states. Strict measures have been introduced in some states, but not all. For example, 17 of the 50 states do not require a bandage.
Kilder: Associated Press, AP Votecast, Worldometers, Johns Hopkins`koronakart.
