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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 03:04 PM May 2020

Governors who pushed hardest for reopening get lowest approval

Source: American Independent



By Josh Israel -May 19, 2020 12:36 PM

Governors who bragged about keeping their states open also received low marks.

A 50-state poll released Tuesday shows that most governors who refused to issue stay-at-home orders or rushed to reopen their states get among the lowest marks for their handling of the coronavirus.

The SurveyMonkey data shows that while 49 of the 50 governors get majority approval for their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the eight who got the least support included three governors who never issued stay-at-home orders, another who co-authored a Washington Post opinion piece bragging about keeping his state "open for business" during the pandemic, and three more who have come under fire for reopening too quickly.

Of the seven governors — all Republicans — who refused to issue stay-at-home orders at any point in the pandemic, most rate in the bottom half nationally as far as approval. (Only North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum cracked the top 15.)

Four of those governors boasted earlier this month that their states "stayed open in the covid-19 pandemic" and that their "approach worked."

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/governors-coronavirus-polls-brian-kemp-ron-desantis-georgia-florida-gop-covid-19/



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Please note, I have notified American Independent that picture of the Snow Queen, is she is not the governor of North Dakota but of South Dakota..................
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Governors who pushed hardest for reopening get lowest approval (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
We all know the Republic (GOPig) governors were the worst. trueblue2007 May 2020 #1
We can ask the meat workers in those states IronLionZion May 2020 #2

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
2. We can ask the meat workers in those states
Tue May 19, 2020, 03:47 PM
May 2020

Sure these are rural red states, but they have been hit hard in the meat processing plants and Native American reservations. I doubt those folks appreciate their governors' lack of action.

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