Somehow, the president keeps misreading the politics of the pandemic [View all]

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Americans support stronger efforts to control the outbreak — and relatedly see Biden as better able to handle it.

Speaking from the White House on Thursday, President Trump attempted to chastise his reelection opponent’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

“To Joe, I would say: Stop playing politics with a virus. Too serious,” Trump said, reading from his prepared remarks. “Partisan politics has no place here.”

A few minutes earlier, Trump’s views of using the outbreak as a political tool were somewhat different.

“Today, we saw Joe Biden continue to politicize a pandemic and to show his appalling lack of respect for the American people. That’s what it is,” he said. “At every turn, Biden has been wrong about the virus, ignoring the scientific evidence and putting left-wing politics before facts and evidence.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/14/somehow-president-keeps-misreading-politics-pandemic/