“I feel sorry for him because he has a position that he can’t handle or that he doesn’t know how to handle,” said Grace Sweet, 88, a retired guidance counselor from Jackson, Miss. “I don’t believe anything he says. I really don’t.”

The partisan split on trusting the information Mr. Trump delivers has been striking. A new poll by Politico and Morning Consult found that 79 percent of Republicans were satisfied with the quality of the information about the pandemic that they were getting from Mr. Trump, while only 16 percent of Democrats said they were.

And even among Republicans, there has been a notable split between those who watched Fox News regularly, and those who did not. Fox News viewers were 15 points more likely to say Mr. Trump “got it about right” when the coronavirus began to spread than those who did not watch, according to a poll by Navigator Research, which is overseen by leaders of several progressive organizations.

While some recent polls have suggested that confidence in Mr. Trump’s handling of the outbreak was slipping, a recent Quinnipiac University poll his approval rating sits at about 45 percent, his highest rating in that poll since taking office.

One of those who supports the president is Henry Louden, 53, a developer in Miami Beach interviewed Thursday night. Mr. Trump, he said, was doing “the best he can” given that he was confronting a “new crisis.”

Mr. Louden, whose 19-year-old son tested positive for the virus after going on a spring break trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, despite warnings about the pandemic, admitted that he found it unhelpful when Mr. Trump said he would not wear a mask, despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advising people to do so.

“He could have said he will consider it,” Mr. Louden said. But what he viewed as a misstep barely figured in his overall assessment of Mr. Trump’s performance.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-briefings.html

Funeral home workers put on protective gear to retrieve a body from a refrigerated truck outside of a Brooklyn hospital in early April. As of Sunday, the U.S. reported the most coronavirus deaths in the world, surpassing Italy.

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The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has surpassed Italy’s, putting America at No. 1 worldwide for the number of people killed by the strain.

Data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center show the U.S. lost more than 20,600 patients to the virus as of early Sunday morning. Italy has nearly 19,500 deaths.

The development comes as more hot spots begin to emerge in the U.S. in addition to New York, Louisiana and Detroit. Earlier this month, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., were among areas of concern.

Officials have also struggled with the lack of a coordinated response across the various levels of government.

Each state has its own rules for stay-at-home orders — if it has such orders at all. Some states provided exemptions for religious services — particularly during Passover and Easter. And some governors did not issue stay-at-home orders until early April; the federal government called on Americans to practice social distancing in mid-March.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicate a racial disparity in hospitalizations. Preliminary data from New York City officials show the Latino community there has been hardest hit by deaths.

There is also a struggle for medical supplies to reach areas that need them the most. NPR found that the public-private collaboration established by the Trump administration has meant that long-established business ties often shape decisions about who gets equipment.

The National Governors Association on Saturday called on Congress to approve $500 billion in direct aid to states. President Trump and congressional Democrats are haggling over the size and scope of another relief package. In March, Trump signed a number of aid packages into law, including the $2 trillion CARES Act.

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/12/832722919/u-s-has-most-coronavirus-deaths-in-the-world

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered top U.S. administration officials to help Italy in fighting the novel coronavirus by providing medical supplies, humanitarian relief and other assistance.

In a memo to several Cabinet ministers, Trump ordered a variety of measures to help Italy, including making U.S. military personnel in the country available for telemedicine services, helping set up field hospitals, and transporting supplies.

“The Italian Republic (Italy), one of our closest and oldest Allies, is being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already claimed more than 18,000 lives, brought much of the Italian healthcare system to the brink of collapse, and threatens to push Italy’s economy into a deep recession,” Trump said in the memo.

Italy has recorded the biggest number of deaths from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, followed by the United States.

Trump ordered his commerce secretary to encourage U.S. suppliers to sell products requested by Italian authorities and healthcare providers, except those required for the United States’ own response to the pandemic.

The memo said the secretary of state, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank “may use available authorities to support the recovery of the Italian economy.”

(This story corrects name in paragraph 6 to Agency for International Development, not Aid)

Reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Daniel Wallis

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As Americans marked Easter Sunday amid the challenges of a pandemic, the South faced a new menace that could upend lives: severe weather, including possibly fierce tornadoes. 

A string of severe storms was likely from Louisiana through the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service said, and more than 4.5 million people could be at risk. Birmingham, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi, were particularly vulnerable, the Storm Prediction Center said.  

The storms were expected to last through Sunday night and move through the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast and the Eastern Seaboard into Monday, Accuweather said.

The National Weather Service reported one large tornado in Monroe, Louisiana, midmorning, according to the Weather Channel, and said damage has been reported in parts of the city.

The National Weather Service office in Jackson told residents to brace for the possibility of relentless tornadoes with wind gusts up to 70 mph and tennis ball-size hail through Sunday evening.

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/12/severe-weather-tornadoes-easter-sunday/2978283001/

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of the most high-profile people in the political world to become infected with the new coronavirus, was released from the hospital Sunday, and the pope celebrated an Easter Mass in solitude. 

The Internal Revenue Service also announced the first stimulus payments meant to ease economic fallout of the pandemic had been deposited into taxpayers’ bank accounts as many businesses are closed and most churches have canceled in-person services on Easter.

All 50 states are simultaneously under a disaster declaration for the first time in history, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said Saturday. Hours before, the U.S. surpassed 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time, and also became the country with the most coronavirus deaths, passing Italy’s death toll.

President Donald Trump had previously set what he later described as an “aspirational” goal to reopen the country by Sunday but has since abandoned that position.

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/12/coronavirus-stimulus-payments-bank-accounts/2976552001/

On Easter, and with deaths rising, questions about reopening the economy loom.

Christians across the United States prepared to celebrate Easter by gathering virtually on Sunday, largely following stay-at-home orders and guidance from health officials, while a handful of pastors in states like Louisiana and Mississippi planned to hold in-person services in defiance of restrictions on mass gatherings, citing their religious freedoms.

President Trump said on Twitter that he would watch the online service of First Baptist Dallas, led by Robert Jeffress, one of his prominent supporters.

Just a day earlier, the United States reached a grim milestone, surpassing Italy in the total number of confirmed coronavirus deaths, reaching its deadliest day on Friday with 2,057 deaths. As of Saturday night, the total stood at more than 20,500.

Already the pandemic has put more than 16 million people out of work, forcing Mr. Trump to grapple simultaneously with the most devastating public health and economic crises in a lifetime. He finds himself pulled in opposite directions, with bankers, corporate executives and industrialists pleading with him to reopen the country as soon as possible, while medical experts beg for more time to curb the coronavirus. The country’s death toll, which has more than doubled over the past week, is now increasing by nearly 2,000 most days.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that New York is continuing to flatten the curve as the state may be at the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The [total] number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex,” Cuomo said at his daily coronavirus briefing where he displayed that the current number of hospitalizations is at 18,654. New York City has 64 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations while Long Island has 22 percent. Intubations were negative 26 Friday, a decrease that the governor called a good sign.

The governor had originally called for 140,000 beds and 30,000 ventilators based on projections. New York’s previous hospital capacity was 53,000 beds, which has since increased to 90,000 beds.

He said Friday the temporary hospitals at the Javits Center and the U.S. Navy Ship Comfort – which are staffed with federal personnel – “are an overflow relief capacity valve” that will not have to be used if the hospitalization rates continue to stay low, but hospitals have been told that they have those facilities at their disposals should they need them.

As of Friday night only 332 patients have been moved to these facilities that have a combined capacity of 3,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, according to a report by the New York Post.

Cuomo took a shot at conspiracy theories for why governments closed down in light of projections missing the mark by wide margin, calling those ideas “corrosive.”

“There are no political conspiracies here. All the projection models have basically said the same thing…All the experts have higher projection numbers than we actually experienced and they all said caveat government action could flatten the curve but we don’t know what governments will do and we don’t know if people will even listen to what governments will do,” Cuomo said.

Cuomo said he has kept politics out of the coronavirus response, commending President Donald Trump for being “responsive to New York’s needs.” The governor also stated that he is “not running for anything…I am the governor of New York and that’s where I’m going to stay.”

“I have no political agenda, period. I’m not running for president. I’m not running for vice president. I’m not running anywhere. I’m not going to Washington. I’m staying right here,” he said to shut down any qualms or misgivings.

The governor said that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who earlier in the day announced that city schools would be shut down for the remainder of the academic year, could not make that decision “without coordinating that decision with the whole metropolitan region.”

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New York currently has 180,458 confirmed cases and 8,627 deaths. There were 783 novel coronavirus deaths in the state Friday, after losing 777 people Thursday.

“These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain, especially this week. All 783 individuals and families are in our thoughts and in our prayers,” Cuomo said.

As for when this pandemic will end, Cuomo quoted Winston Churchill to say that New York is possibly facing “the end of the beginning” with regard with the pandemic, adding: “This was a beginning phase. We are all trying to figure it out, we are all trying to adjust, but it is the end of that beginning.”

The governor urged New Yorkers to continue to abide by social distancing guidelines, as he said the current outlook of the pandemic is a “product of our actions.”

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(Reuters) – U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 20,000 on Saturday, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak.

Italy has the second most reported deaths at 19,468 and Spain is in third place with 16,353. The United States has five times the population of Italy and nearly seven times the population of Spain.

The United States has seen its highest death tolls to date in the epidemic with roughly 2,000 deaths a day reported for the last four days in a row. (Graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2w7hX9T)

Public health experts have warned that the U.S. death toll could spike to 200,000 over the summer if unprecedented stay-at-home orders that have closed businesses and kept most Americans indoors are lifted after 30 days.

The stay-at-home orders imposed in recent weeks across 42 of the 50 states have taken a huge toll on American commerce, with some economists forecasting job losses of up to 20 million by month’s end, raising questions about how long business closures and travel restrictions can be sustained.

Globally, there have been more than 1.6 million confirmed cases, with the death toll surpassing 106,000.

Writing by Lisa Shumaker; Editing by Daniel Wallis

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Topline: A new report from the New York Times details early warnings issued to President Trump and his administration throughout early January and February that were ignored because of potential impacts to the economy and trade relations with China, including guidance for social distancing practices weeks before they were issued by the president.

  • Dr. Robert Kadlec, the Department of Health and Human Services’ lead on disaster response, met with the White House’s coronavirus task force on February 21, and the group concluded that social distancing measures including school closures would need to take place soon.
  • The group intended to present Trump with their plan after he returned from a trip from India—a February 14 memo prepared with the National Security Council went over guidelines like cancelling sporting events and issuing stay-at-home directives nationwide—but on February 25,  Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, put out a public warning that echoed the task force’s plan but infuriated Trump as it impacted the stock market.
  • Instead of conducting a meeting with the task force about the need for social distancing, Trump instead had a briefing on February 26 where he replaced Dr. Alex Azar, the secretary of Health and Human Services, as the head of the coronavirus task force with Vice President Mike Pence, with a focus on controlling the message so as not to impact the economy.
  • The report also details the struggles officials went through in convincing Trump and his administration to put in place social distancing measures, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who argued with national security adviser Robert O’Brien during an Oval Office meeting, claiming the economy could be destroyed.
  • Trump reportedly pushed back against social distancing because his “business friends” told him it would hurt the economy. Senior adviser Jared Kushner brought in former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb to convince Trump, and Pence also tried to help, but it was Dr. Deborah Birx, now a familiar face on the coronavirus task force, who finally got through to Trump.
  • Echoing a Washington Post report in March, officials in early January were reportedly issuing early warnings of the pandemic, with the State Department’s epidemiologist writing the virus could turn into a pandemic and biodefense experts in the National Security Council telling officials to think about preparations for city-sized quarantines.
  • Azar in particular was reportedly told by Trump in January to “stop panicking” after he called him about a potential pandemic, and a plan by Azar to set up surveillance in five cities that would have cost $100 million fell through in February as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent struggled to issue working tests.

Tangent: The report also focuses on the touchy relationship between the White House and the Chinese government. Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, was warned early on in January by a Hong Kong epidemiologist that China was not being truthful about the spread of the virus. Described as a China hawk, Pottinger and others pushed the administration to blame China while economic advisers to Trump pushed back as they worked through a trade deal with the government. The debates eventually led to a restriction of foreign nationals traveling from China on January 31, a move consistently touted by Trump as a sign he acted early. However, no other broad actions were taken in February to prepare and address the pandemic, with senators in a briefing on February 5 telling Trump’s administration to take the threat seriously and offering money to help state and local departments. While Trump tweeted praise to China early on, a war of words began to brew between the two nations, with Trump using the phrase “Wuhan Virus” throughout March.

Crucial Quote: In an email exchange with other experts after Trump issued travel restrictions between European countries on March 11, Dr. James Lawler, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said “We have thrown 15 years of institutional learning out the window and are making decisions based on intuition.”

Chief Critic: President Trump. After the publication of the New York Times story, Trump lashed out on Twitter Saturday, calling the accounts made up. “When the Failing [New York Times] or Amazon [Washington Post] writes a story saying ‘unnamed sources said,’ or any such phrase where a person’s name is not used, don’t believe them. Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame and disparage.”

Key Background: After much delay, Trump declared a national emergency on March 13, two days after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. Trump has frequently said the pandemic and its impact couldn’t have been predicted and the administration acted quickly. However, before calling a national emergency, Trump frequently downplayed the coronavirus. “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” Trump said on February 27. Some states still haven’t issued stay-at-home orders, and Trump is now saying widespread testing isn’t needed to reopen the country.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) separately announced they’d introduce legislation to create a nonpartisan commission to investigate the federal government’s response to the pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on April 2, announced a bipartisan select committee to oversee federal actions during “the here and now” of the pandemic.

The U.S. now leads all other countries in confirmed cases of the coronavirus with 522,286 and deaths with 20,283.

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“We are seeing some relative good news, both in terms of the flattening – we continue to see improvement there,” Arwady said. “The most important thing that drives our data, drives our biggest campaign here ‘Stay home, save lives’ is about limiting any new infections. Any opportunity, especially in the month of April, to limit new infections is really, really important.” Read more here. —Bill Ruthhart

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Trump shows up to task force meetings infrequently, but when he does, he is a lively presence who often makes the gatherings more lighthearted, aides said. In one meeting, Trump suggested that he present the good news and Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, give the bad news — a good-cop-bad-cop addition to the evening briefing.

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The United States surpassed Italy on Saturday as the country with the most coronavirus deaths in the world, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 

At least 18,860 people have died from the virus in the U.S. Italy has suffered 18,849 fatalities; Spain has recorded at least 16,353 deaths; and France has confirmed 13,197 deaths. 

The coronavirus had infected more than 500,000 people in the U.S. as of Friday night, constituting almost one-third of all cases across the globe, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The virus, which emerged in December, has since spread to more than 1.5 million people in almost every country around the world. On Friday, the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus worldwide passed the 100,000 mark

Meanwhile, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday said hospitalizations seemed to be plateauing in New York state, the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States. During a press conference Saturday, he said 783 people died of the virus in New York on Friday, bringing the state’s death toll to 8,627. 

“The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex, and the apex appears to be a plateau,” he said. “The hospitalization rate is down, and that’s important. We have more people getting infected still, we have more people going into the hospital, but we have a lower number… Fewer people are going into the hospitals, still net positive.” 

As of 1 p.m. Saturday, New York state had at least 174,489 confirmed cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Cuomo said the number of deaths in the state is stabilizing, but stabilizing “at a horrific rate.” Looking at three-day averages, he said “all the numbers are on the downward slope.” Though people are still getting infected and going into hospitals, he said they’re doing so at a lower rate. 

For ICU admissions, Cuomo said the three-day average is down, but said that figure might be misleading because where ICU sections were previously specified sections of a hospital, now entire hospitals are operating as ICUs.

Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland and Andrew Cuomo of New York made a bipartisan call Saturday for an additional $500 billion in U.S. federal aid for states and territories grappling with the pandemic. They said in a statement that implementing stay-at-home orders and other public health measures have “resulted in catastrophic damage to state economies.”

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New York City schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday.

The mayor characterized the decision as “painful” but said keeping the schools closed is the way to keep the coronavirus from spreading.

“It will help us to save lives,” de Blasio said during a news briefing at City Hall. “It’s the right decision,” he said.

The mayor said the social distancing strategies in place are working to reduce the spread of the virus. Students have been learning remotely since school buildings were closed last month.

He said the decision was made in part after a conversation Friday night with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the leading federal officials on the pandemic. “He was so clear about how important keeping the schools closed would be in our overall strategy,” the mayor said.

The United Federation of Teachers is behind the shutdown. “Keeping school buildings closed is unquestionably the right decision,” the teacher’s union said in a tweet attributed to President Michael Mulgrew. “Learning continues. Thanks to the efforts of our educators, remote learning is working in New York City.”

The city is focusing on reopening in September. It will be “unlike any reopening we have ever seen,” de Blasio said.

However, Chancellor Richard Carranza said the path of the virus will be what determines when schools actually open.

“Everything is on the table, but nothing has been decided because circumstances in terms of public health will determine when we open again,” Carranza said.

In the meantime, the city is trying to get devices to students who still don’t have them by the end of the month. Roughly 175,000 devices that belonged to schools have been loaned out already, Carranza said, along with another 70,000 wifi-equipped iPads.

The city is asking parents to complete a survey if they don’t have the required tech for distance learning. “By the end of April, every student that’s identified themselves as needing a device based on the survey will have a device,” Carranza said.

Plans are also in place to reach out to families about how remote learning is going, and to provide additional materials to help parents coach their children. The Department of Education is mailing “learning packets” to students who are waiting for devices so they don’t lose instructional time, the chancellor said.

Teachers are being asked to be “flexible” when it comes to grading, Carranza said. “Work is being graded but we are emphasizing flexibility in this time period,” he said.

De Blasio said the Department of Education will be working closely with the 75,000 seniors who expect to graduate this year.

“We do not want to see these seniors robbed of their future,” the mayor said, acknowledging the chance of graduation ceremonies this year are slim. Nevertheless, helping those seniors graduate is going to be one of the primary objectives, he said.

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A voter in Delray Beach, Fla. during last month’s primary election. More voters are expected to request mail-in ballots for the August primary and November general election.

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With an election year pandemic, mail-in ballots may become an increasingly popular way to vote, especially in states like Florida that allow any voter to use them.

While those ballots accounted for nearly 1 in 4 of all ballots cast in 2018, President Trump this week said he wasn’t in favor of expanding the practice during present health crisis, even as he used one himself when he voted (presumably for himself) in Florida’s presidential primary last month.

During the White House coronavirus briefing Tuesday, Trump said, “I think that mail-in voting is a terrible thing” and followed up the next day with several tweets calling on Republicans to oppose statewide mail-voting, claiming without evidence that the practice hurt GOP candidates and was susceptible to widespread fraud.

“At least in Florida, I think he’s being a little misguided,” said Mac Stipanovich, a longtime Republican strategist in Florida who recently left the GOP because of Trump. Mail-in ballots have also been a key tool in other Republican-friendly states such as Arizona and Utah.

For more than 40 years, Stipanovich helped Republicans win campaigns and come to dominate Florida politics. “Absentee ballots,” he said, “are typically Republicans’ friends in Florida.”

In 2002, Florida began allowing anyone who requests a mail ballot to receive one, a changed Stipanovich said Republican strategists and campaign managers immediately embraced them.

“People recognized that was a mine of gold that you could…control.” He says campaign strategists could, “figure out who got the ballots, contact them [and] try to make sure they got their ballots in.”

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In Florida, a state nearly evenly divided among Republicans, Democrats and independents, elections are often decided by the narrowest of margins. In many races, both local and statewide, mail-in ballots have provided Republican candidates with the votes to win.

For many years, it was Republicans who pushed voting by mail, said Daniel Smith, a political science professor at the University of Florida, who has studied how mail-in voting has been used in the state.

“Their electorate happens to be older on average than Democrats, happens to be more affluent. It happens to have a more permanent residency in terms of less transient, less mobile population, which makes the delivery and return of absentee ballots easier,” said Smith.

In recent elections, Democratic campaigns in Florida have also begun relying on mail ballots. They allow campaign staffers to know who’s received a ballot, so they can call and encourage the voters to return it.

Campaigns also know when people have returned their ballots, enabling operatives to “focus their attention on less reliable voters,” said Smith, “who may not vote in every election and need a little more cajoling to get out to the polls.”

That strategy helped Donald Trump narrowly carry Florida in 2016, Smith said. After securing the mail-in ballots, Republicans were able to concentrate on getting their occasional voters out to the polls.

In Florida and elsewhere, mail ballots have been involved in election fraud, but Smith and other experts say it’s rare. A bigger problem, according to Smith, is the relatively high percentage of mail ballots that are disqualified because they arrive too late, or the voter’s signature doesn’t match the one on file.

In a study he conducted after the 2016 election in Florida, Smith found the rejections disproportionately affect minority voters and young people.

With two elections coming up in the next several months, a statewide primary in August and the general election in November, Florida election officials are expecting a surge of requests for mail ballots.

“I think every county in Florida is gearing up on that,” said Bill Cowles, the election supervisor of Orange County, Fla., which includes Orlando. “We’re also putting pressure on our vendors, our mail houses for doing it.”

With the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, Democrats and voting right groups have been pushing for an expansion of the use of mail-in ballots. Some Republicans, including the governors of Nebraska, New Hampshire and Ohio, have also backed major expansions of mail-in voting in response to the pandemic.

In Florida, a state vital to both parties’ presidential hopes this fall, elections officials have asked Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis for more time to mail out and count ballots but they’ve also that it won’t be possible to conduct an all-mail ballot election this year.

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(CNN)President Donald Trump will watch Easter come and go this weekend without the nation “raring to go” as a new debate buds over whether May 1 is now the target date of revival.

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