As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Break Ranks

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/republicans-contradict-trump-coronavirus.html

President Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he will ever play a constructive role in addressing the crisis, with some concluding they must work around Mr. Trump and ignore or even contradict his pronouncements.

In recent days, some of the most prominent figures in the G.O.P. outside the White House have broken with Mr. Trump over issues like the value of wearing a mask in public and heeding the advice of health experts like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, whom the president and other hard-right figures within the administration have subjected to caustic personal criticism.

They appear to be spurred by several overlapping forces, including deteriorating conditions in their own states, Mr. Trump’s seeming indifference to the problem and the approach of a presidential election in which Mr. Trump is badly lagging his Democratic challenger, Joseph R. Biden Jr., in the polls.

Once-reticent Republican governors are now issuing orders on mask-wearing and business restrictions that run counter to Mr. Trump’s demands. Some of those governors have been holding late-night phone calls among themselves to trade ideas and grievances; they have sought out partners in the administration other than the president, including Vice President Mike Pence, who, despite echoing Mr. Trump in public, is seen by governors as far more attentive to the continuing disaster.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. All but Missouri's pathetic governor. He's still on the floor licking trump's fungus-riddled feet

our so called non-elected governor has based claimed that kids are going back to school, and will get sick from the CV anyways, so buck it up and take it on the chin mentality.

What an absolute MORON.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Stitt here in Oklahoma is doing the same and he is COVID 19 positive.

[Happy Hoosier]

3. I think McConnell will "release" some GOP senators....

The evidence is clear that Trump and GOP's virus response will get them crushed. Some Senators (and Congresspersons) will try to save themselves by breaking with Trump on the pandemic response.

[Faux pas]

4. Too

effing late, they are all just as responsible for killing 140,000 plus people as their demented leader. They all need to be charged and brought to trial.

[qwlauren35]

5. Holy Bat Shit Mr. McConnell!!!

Maybe he's finally scared of Amy McGrath

And in his home state of Kentucky last week, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, broke with Mr. Trump on nearly every major issue related to the virus.

Mr. McConnell stressed the importance of mask-wearing, expressed “total” confidence in Dr. Fauci and urged Americans to follow guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Mr. Trump has ignored or dismissed.

“The straight talk here that everyone needs to understand is: This is not going away until we get a vaccine,” Mr. McConnell said on Wednesday, contradicting Mr. Trump’s rosy predictions.

[agingdem]

6. name one senator/congressman

who has broken ranks?...they talk privately...whisper..pearl-clutch and then nothing...not one has stood in front of mic declaring the orange maggot insane and advised their constituency to ignore the verbal diarrhea spewing from the hole in his face...not one has publicly supported Fauci...not one has endorsed CDC guidelines..masks, hand sanitizers and social distancing...yes some of the governors are stepping up but Kemp an DeSantis still controls the narrative...