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March 18, 2020
Democrats Now Favored In Presidential Race
March 18, 2020 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Democrats Now Favored In Presidential Race
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/18/democrats-now-favored-in-presidential-race/Democrats Now Favored In Presidential Race
March 18, 2020 at 8:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Stuart Rothenberg: “More than 14 months ago, I wrote a column in this space suggesting that the 2020 presidential contest was a toss-up, but one that tilted toward the Democrats. I offered caveats about the economy and the Democratic nomination, acknowledging that there was ‘no way of knowing what events will draw America’s attention 18 or 20 months from now.’ Now, the landscape has changed.”
“Democrats are likely to be united in the fall, and President Trump’s standing is stuck where it has been for many months. There are also more questions about presidential leadership and the economy, which the president has been relying on to help him win a second term.”
“The president is an underdog now in his bid for a second term.”
“Democrats are likely to be united in the fall, and President Trump’s standing is stuck where it has been for many months. There are also more questions about presidential leadership and the economy, which the president has been relying on to help him win a second term.”
“The president is an underdog now in his bid for a second term.”
March 18, 2020
News
Jared Kushner was the one telling Trump the media was overhyping coronavirus
By Sky Palma
Posted on March 17, 2020
According to a new report from The New York Times, when President Trump was downplaying the threat of the coronavirus in the outbreak’s early days, he was reflecting advice from his senior staff member and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Although his tone has recently undergone a sharp turnaround, Trump initially claimed the situation was being inflamed by the “fake news media.” Kushner was tasked with investigating the outbreak according to the Times’ report, and advised the president “that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat” — a narrative that Trump echoed when speaking to reporters and lashing out on Twitter.
Kushner also reportedly sought a bigger role for himself on the coronavirus task force even though he lacked sufficient knowledge on the subject.
Read the full report over at The New York Times.
Jared Kushner was the one telling Trump the media was overhyping coronavirus
https://deadstate.org/jared-kushner-was-the-one-telling-trump-the-media-was-overhyping-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR2crPixsuo-6ETpkoRLJbq5XCCEJ8PF05_EZtswFVWYUFf-aaRpCtKVG6ENews
Jared Kushner was the one telling Trump the media was overhyping coronavirus
By Sky Palma
Posted on March 17, 2020
According to a new report from The New York Times, when President Trump was downplaying the threat of the coronavirus in the outbreak’s early days, he was reflecting advice from his senior staff member and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Although his tone has recently undergone a sharp turnaround, Trump initially claimed the situation was being inflamed by the “fake news media.” Kushner was tasked with investigating the outbreak according to the Times’ report, and advised the president “that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat” — a narrative that Trump echoed when speaking to reporters and lashing out on Twitter.
Kushner also reportedly sought a bigger role for himself on the coronavirus task force even though he lacked sufficient knowledge on the subject.
Read the full report over at The New York Times.
March 18, 2020
UPDATED: Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships Mercy, Comfort for Coronavirus Response
By: Sam LaGrone
March 17, 2020 3:10 PM • Updated: March 17, 2020 4:10 PM
The Pentagon is starting the process of activating Navy hospital ships USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) as part of the Defense Department’s domestic response to the spreading COVID-19 virus, USNI News has learned.
The ships will now begin the several days-long process of bringing aboard medical staff and equipment ahead of deploying along the East and West coasts, a defense official confirmed to USNI News on Tuesday afternoon.
Two sources told USNI News that the idea was for the ships to provide relief for coastal hospital systems, with the ships taking on non-COVID-19 cases and allowing the hospitals to focus on the most critical patients suffering from the virus. The Pentagon also has extensive equipment for erecting field hospitals in addition to the hospital ships, but those facilities are optimized for trauma cases, with several beds close together, and not for infectious patients.
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Each ship has a 1,000-bed capacity and is manned by military medical personnel, requiring about a week or more to mobilize those personnel from across the active duty and reserve forces. Pentagon officials have stressed that many of the reserve medical personnel that would be called up to staff mobile hospitals or Mercy and Comfort would be partially pulled from civilian medical facilities.
more...
https://news.usni.org/2020/03/17/pentagon-preparing-navy-hospital-ships-mercy-comfort-for-coronavirus-response?fbclid=IwAR1LFUQXDZGQDsyKeLGVcSha0wvygRJSZ1hru7_bj6QDhhHjAveqwdC-XH0
UPDATED: Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships Mercy, Comfort for Coronavirus Response
UPDATED: Pentagon Preparing Navy Hospital Ships Mercy, Comfort for Coronavirus Response
By: Sam LaGrone
March 17, 2020 3:10 PM • Updated: March 17, 2020 4:10 PM
The Pentagon is starting the process of activating Navy hospital ships USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) and USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) as part of the Defense Department’s domestic response to the spreading COVID-19 virus, USNI News has learned.
“We’ve already given orders to the Navy… to lean forward in terms of getting them ready to deploy,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters on Tuesday.
The ships will now begin the several days-long process of bringing aboard medical staff and equipment ahead of deploying along the East and West coasts, a defense official confirmed to USNI News on Tuesday afternoon.
Two sources told USNI News that the idea was for the ships to provide relief for coastal hospital systems, with the ships taking on non-COVID-19 cases and allowing the hospitals to focus on the most critical patients suffering from the virus. The Pentagon also has extensive equipment for erecting field hospitals in addition to the hospital ships, but those facilities are optimized for trauma cases, with several beds close together, and not for infectious patients.
snip//
Each ship has a 1,000-bed capacity and is manned by military medical personnel, requiring about a week or more to mobilize those personnel from across the active duty and reserve forces. Pentagon officials have stressed that many of the reserve medical personnel that would be called up to staff mobile hospitals or Mercy and Comfort would be partially pulled from civilian medical facilities.
more...
https://news.usni.org/2020/03/17/pentagon-preparing-navy-hospital-ships-mercy-comfort-for-coronavirus-response?fbclid=IwAR1LFUQXDZGQDsyKeLGVcSha0wvygRJSZ1hru7_bj6QDhhHjAveqwdC-XH0
March 17, 2020
‘Gag and Vote For It Anyway’: McConnell Urges Republican Hold Outs to Back House Coronavirus Bill
[National Review]
Tobias Hoonhout
,National Review•March 17, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he would push ahead with passing the $100-billion stimulus package negotiated between the White House and House Democrats last week, adding that Senate Republicans with reservations about the bill should “gag” them.
more...
https://news.yahoo.com/gag-vote-anyway-mcconnell-urges-195217825.html
'Gag and Vote For It Anyway': McConnell Urges Republican Hold Outs to Back House Coronavirus Bill
‘Gag and Vote For It Anyway’: McConnell Urges Republican Hold Outs to Back House Coronavirus Bill
[National Review]
Tobias Hoonhout
,National Review•March 17, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he would push ahead with passing the $100-billion stimulus package negotiated between the White House and House Democrats last week, adding that Senate Republicans with reservations about the bill should “gag” them.
“We’re going to go on and vote as soon as the Senate can get permission to vote on the bill that came over from the House, send it down to the President . . . and reassure the people around the country,” McConnell said. He added that “a number of my members think there are considerable shortcomings in the House bill. My counsel to them is to gag and vote for it anyway.”
more...
https://news.yahoo.com/gag-vote-anyway-mcconnell-urges-195217825.html
March 17, 2020
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die.
By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Mar 17, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Life in America — and in many countries around the world — is changing drastically. We’re physically distanced from our favorite people, we’re avoiding our favorite public places, and many are financially strained or out of work. The response to the Covid-19 pandemic is infiltrating every aspect of life, and we’re already longing for it to end. But this fight may not end for months or a year or even more.
We’re in this because public health experts believe social distancing is the best way to prevent a truly horrific crisis: perhaps hundreds of thousands or more if our health care system is overwhelmed with severe Covid-19 cases, people who require ventilators and ICU beds that are now growing limited in supply.
How long, then, until we’re no longer behind and are winning the fight against the novel coronavirus? The hard truth is that it may keep infecting people and causing outbreaks until there’s a vaccine or treatment to stop it.
more...
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/17/21181694/coronavirus-covid-19-lockdowns-end-how-long-months-years
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die.
By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Mar 17, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Life in America — and in many countries around the world — is changing drastically. We’re physically distanced from our favorite people, we’re avoiding our favorite public places, and many are financially strained or out of work. The response to the Covid-19 pandemic is infiltrating every aspect of life, and we’re already longing for it to end. But this fight may not end for months or a year or even more.
We’re in this because public health experts believe social distancing is the best way to prevent a truly horrific crisis: perhaps hundreds of thousands or more if our health care system is overwhelmed with severe Covid-19 cases, people who require ventilators and ICU beds that are now growing limited in supply.
“Some may look at [the guidelines] ... and say, well, maybe we’ve gone a little bit too far,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, at a Monday White House press conference. “They were well thought out. And the thing that I want to reemphasize ... when you’re dealing with an emerging infectious diseases outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are if you think that today reflects where you really are.”
How long, then, until we’re no longer behind and are winning the fight against the novel coronavirus? The hard truth is that it may keep infecting people and causing outbreaks until there’s a vaccine or treatment to stop it.
“I think this idea … that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks, you solve the problem and get back to normal life — that’s not what’s going to happen,” says Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and author of The Rules of Contagion, a book on how outbreaks spread. “The main message that isn’t getting across to a lot of people is just how long we might be in this for.”
more...
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/17/21181694/coronavirus-covid-19-lockdowns-end-how-long-months-years
March 17, 2020
Coronavirus Update: Michael Bloomberg pledges $40M to fight COVID-19
By Eyewitness News
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:33AM
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Former New York City mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg announced on Tuesday a $40 million commitment to support "immediate action" to fight the spread of the coronavirus in low and middle-income countries.
It follows an initiative he started last week to help mayors respond to the spread of COVID-19, by providing a virtual support network that connects them with public health experts and other mayors fighting the virus in places like Seattle.
The initiative will, "...fund rapid response teams that will be deployed to prevent and detect infection; train frontline healthcare workers in infection prevention and control; develop lab networks to manage and transport specimens to central laboratories for COVID-19 diagnosis; measure acceptance and impact of containment strategies such as school and church closures and cancellation of mass gatherings through rapid mobile phone surveys; provide communications support such as public education campaigns; and provide technical expertise to global and regional health organizations."
"Millions of lives depend on getting the coronavirus response right - and so does the economic and social health of communities around the world. We need to slow transmission of the virus and minimize the impact of the outbreak in all countries," Bloomberg said. "As we launch the Coronavirus Local Response Initiative this week here in the U.S., we also are creating a new effort to prevent its spread globally, particularly in Africa. I know from my experience as mayor of New York City that giving public health professionals the tools to protect the public is vital to saving lives - and to help mitigate the kind of economic and social damage that could make this crisis even more debilitating for families and communities."
Bloomberg Philanthropies will partner with Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives in this effort.
Coronavirus Update: Michael Bloomberg pledges $40M to fight COVID-19
https://abc7ny.com/politics/bloomberg-pledges-$40m-to-fight-coronavirus/6021007/?fbclid=IwAR3sQr8NowltQWDpvioc0QnpBN9LWuCHUuEEK-_kp9-PlwjCgl7U89TKpUcCoronavirus Update: Michael Bloomberg pledges $40M to fight COVID-19
By Eyewitness News
Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:33AM
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Former New York City mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg announced on Tuesday a $40 million commitment to support "immediate action" to fight the spread of the coronavirus in low and middle-income countries.
It follows an initiative he started last week to help mayors respond to the spread of COVID-19, by providing a virtual support network that connects them with public health experts and other mayors fighting the virus in places like Seattle.
The initiative will, "...fund rapid response teams that will be deployed to prevent and detect infection; train frontline healthcare workers in infection prevention and control; develop lab networks to manage and transport specimens to central laboratories for COVID-19 diagnosis; measure acceptance and impact of containment strategies such as school and church closures and cancellation of mass gatherings through rapid mobile phone surveys; provide communications support such as public education campaigns; and provide technical expertise to global and regional health organizations."
"Millions of lives depend on getting the coronavirus response right - and so does the economic and social health of communities around the world. We need to slow transmission of the virus and minimize the impact of the outbreak in all countries," Bloomberg said. "As we launch the Coronavirus Local Response Initiative this week here in the U.S., we also are creating a new effort to prevent its spread globally, particularly in Africa. I know from my experience as mayor of New York City that giving public health professionals the tools to protect the public is vital to saving lives - and to help mitigate the kind of economic and social damage that could make this crisis even more debilitating for families and communities."
Bloomberg Philanthropies will partner with Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives in this effort.
"We have a window of time to partner with Ministries of Health in sub-Saharan Africa to protect their population from a disease that could kill through both infections and disruption of health services," Dr. Frieden said. "From Ebola to H1N1, we now know more than ever how to minimize the risk of epidemics, especially in low- and middle-income countries. With Mayor Bloomberg's support, we can help mitigate the worst effects of coronavirus in Africa."
March 17, 2020
3/17/20 12:51pm
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Sherrod Brown Rains Hellfire On McConnell For Delaying Pandemic Vote
"We get paid to do this job." said the Ohio Senator.
By Frances Langum
Video @ link~
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and its resulting economic shock, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a three day recess back to Kentucky and spent time with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh celebrating the confirmation of another unqualified judge.
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Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Dick Durbin of Illinois called out this nonsense. And Sherrod Brown was on fire:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1239963088817811456
UPDATE: Well, well...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1240006077401444353
Sherrod Brown Rains Hellfire On McConnell For Delaying Pandemic Vote
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/watch-sherrod-brown-rains-hellfire-moscow?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=284333/17/20 12:51pm
Read time: 2 minutes
22 comments
Sherrod Brown Rains Hellfire On McConnell For Delaying Pandemic Vote
"We get paid to do this job." said the Ohio Senator.
By Frances Langum
Video @ link~
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and its resulting economic shock, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a three day recess back to Kentucky and spent time with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh celebrating the confirmation of another unqualified judge.
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Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Dick Durbin of Illinois called out this nonsense. And Sherrod Brown was on fire:
SEN SHERROD BROWN: I think you've just watched what's wrong with this place. Senator Durbin comes here, and talks about the importance of doing something -- LAST THURSDAY we were supposed to start working on this! We should... I asked Senator McConnell on this floor...I opened this door, Mister President, I pointed down the hall and I said Senator McConnell should come back here, and we should work on this bill. Whether they're actually finished in the House, down the hall doing it or not, we should be working on this. Now we have four more days...Senator McConnell had to go back to Kentucky. I don't know really what he went back for. We asked him to stay and finish this, negotiate it and do it. To take care of stopping this virus. To take care of all the people in my state, in Illinois, in Senator Markey's state, in Senator Coons' state... to take care of all these people who are losing their jobs, and don't know what to do? Senator McConnell went back to Kentucky, wasted three days, make that FOUR days, today is another day we're wasting. Again, I don't know why he went back. Three more days of people worrying, three more days of people self-quarantining. It's three more days of businesses in Columbus and Dayton shutting down. It's the anguish that you feel if you think one of your loved ones is sick. All of that. Empty airplanes. All the things that are happening.
If we want to get something done, we get something done... Who can say anything, but this is a national crisis? We're going to make our unwillingness to do anything contingent on some parliamentary trick? No. We are paid to do this job. Just because Senator McConnell has taken four days and not done it, doesn't mean we shouldn't. We should work.
If we want to get something done, we get something done... Who can say anything, but this is a national crisis? We're going to make our unwillingness to do anything contingent on some parliamentary trick? No. We are paid to do this job. Just because Senator McConnell has taken four days and not done it, doesn't mean we shouldn't. We should work.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1239963088817811456
UPDATE: Well, well...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1240006077401444353
March 17, 2020
Mar 14, 2020,03:06pm EDT
Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold
William Baldwin
The U.S. could be on a crash course of increasing ICU capacity—if it had the will.
The German government just placed an order for 10,000 mechanical ventilators. What’s the U.S. government doing about a potential shortage here? Not much, it seems. President Trump alluded to the matter in a press conference but did not spell out any plans.
Ventilators pump oxygen into the lungs of a failing Covid-19 patient. U.S. hospitals have something like 62,000 up-to-date machines immediately available, plus another 99,000 obsolete units that could be pulled out of storage in an emergency, says the Society of Critical Care Medicine. If the pandemic in the U.S. veers off in the Italian direction, that entire collection may be inadequate.
Could manufacturers of these devices boost output? Yes, but not overnight.
“We could increase production five-fold in a 90- to 120-day period,” says Chris Kiple, chief executive of Ventec Life Systems, a Bothell, Wash. firm that makes ventilators used in hospitals, homes and ambulances. He’d have to tool up production lines, train assemblers and testers and get parts. Accelerating the parts delivery might be the toughest task, he says.
The ventilator industry is getting a burst of desperate orders from China and Italy. The U.S. hasn’t seen that yet, although manufacturers are bracing for it. “The time for action by the government is now,” says Kiple.
more...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2020/03/14/ventilator-maker-we-can-ramp-up-production-five-fold/?fbclid=IwAR1OXlNBx3COQY766B3LUQpEH6F_yQmIUMPs-BycUP-VmC3ml4w3PLx41jw#75d85885e9a5
Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold
Mar 14, 2020,03:06pm EDT
Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold
William Baldwin
The U.S. could be on a crash course of increasing ICU capacity—if it had the will.
The German government just placed an order for 10,000 mechanical ventilators. What’s the U.S. government doing about a potential shortage here? Not much, it seems. President Trump alluded to the matter in a press conference but did not spell out any plans.
Ventilators pump oxygen into the lungs of a failing Covid-19 patient. U.S. hospitals have something like 62,000 up-to-date machines immediately available, plus another 99,000 obsolete units that could be pulled out of storage in an emergency, says the Society of Critical Care Medicine. If the pandemic in the U.S. veers off in the Italian direction, that entire collection may be inadequate.
Could manufacturers of these devices boost output? Yes, but not overnight.
“We could increase production five-fold in a 90- to 120-day period,” says Chris Kiple, chief executive of Ventec Life Systems, a Bothell, Wash. firm that makes ventilators used in hospitals, homes and ambulances. He’d have to tool up production lines, train assemblers and testers and get parts. Accelerating the parts delivery might be the toughest task, he says.
The ventilator industry is getting a burst of desperate orders from China and Italy. The U.S. hasn’t seen that yet, although manufacturers are bracing for it. “The time for action by the government is now,” says Kiple.
more...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2020/03/14/ventilator-maker-we-can-ramp-up-production-five-fold/?fbclid=IwAR1OXlNBx3COQY766B3LUQpEH6F_yQmIUMPs-BycUP-VmC3ml4w3PLx41jw#75d85885e9a5
March 17, 2020
The buck stops with Cuomo.
He's giving a presser now, taking full responsibility for his actions, like shutting down schools, restaurants, etc.
I find him so honest, thoughtful and refreshing, making me realize once again how much leadership is missed.
Props to him: NY is lucky compared to other states. 
March 17, 2020
3/17/20 5:13am
Tom Nichols: Trump's Lost The Benefit Of The Doubt With Most Americans
"If the president and the White House tries to move forward now with, you know, these really draconian solutions, I think you're going to have people second-guessing him," the conservative said.
By Susie Madrak
Joe Scarborough wondered it the U.S. would be locked down "like France and Spain."
Tom Nichols warned that we shouldn't count on Trump having a normal press conference as proof he would do the right thing.
Tom Nichols: Trump's Lost The Benefit Of The Doubt With Most Americans
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/tom-nichols-trumps-lost-benefit-doubt-most3/17/20 5:13am
Tom Nichols: Trump's Lost The Benefit Of The Doubt With Most Americans
"If the president and the White House tries to move forward now with, you know, these really draconian solutions, I think you're going to have people second-guessing him," the conservative said.
By Susie Madrak
Joe Scarborough wondered it the U.S. would be locked down "like France and Spain."
Tom Nichols warned that we shouldn't count on Trump having a normal press conference as proof he would do the right thing.
"One press conference where the president meets kind of the minimum requirements of sobriety and clarity is not a sea change," he said.
"It is something to be happy about. It is something to applaud, but I think, you know, the president has trouble focusing. I think that's true for this administration in general. I think most Americans probably would be happy if Tony Fauci became president right about now. I don't think it's going to be a good move to try to go for a national lockdown," he warned.
"Looking at this as a matter of policy, I think the problem is that this president has lost the benefit of the doubt with a lot of people. so things like very draconian measures that look like curtailments of freedom, especially during an election season, are going to get a jaundiced eye from a lot of Americans. That's unfortunate. I don't say that because I somehow think the president would be up to no good doing that, or the team around him, or the doctors advising him.
"Rather, because of the president's track record, not just for three years, but especially in the past three months, where he has been really inconstant and lacked transparency and put out a lot of bad information. If the president and the White House tries to move forward now with, you know, these really draconian solutions, I think you're going to have people second-guessing him because, again, he's lost the benefit of the doubt among a lot of Americans.
"I think what they're doing is they're trying to edge us toward more tougher solutions incrementally, so that we can accept it more easily."
"It is something to be happy about. It is something to applaud, but I think, you know, the president has trouble focusing. I think that's true for this administration in general. I think most Americans probably would be happy if Tony Fauci became president right about now. I don't think it's going to be a good move to try to go for a national lockdown," he warned.
"Looking at this as a matter of policy, I think the problem is that this president has lost the benefit of the doubt with a lot of people. so things like very draconian measures that look like curtailments of freedom, especially during an election season, are going to get a jaundiced eye from a lot of Americans. That's unfortunate. I don't say that because I somehow think the president would be up to no good doing that, or the team around him, or the doctors advising him.
"Rather, because of the president's track record, not just for three years, but especially in the past three months, where he has been really inconstant and lacked transparency and put out a lot of bad information. If the president and the White House tries to move forward now with, you know, these really draconian solutions, I think you're going to have people second-guessing him because, again, he's lost the benefit of the doubt among a lot of Americans.
"I think what they're doing is they're trying to edge us toward more tougher solutions incrementally, so that we can accept it more easily."
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