Coronavirus in Pennsylvania: G.O.P. Defiance of Lockdown Has 2020 Implications – The New York Times

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

Close

Republicans, sensing a gut-level anger in exurban and rural areas after nearly two months of restrictions, see an issue with the potential to drive turnout by voters in a state where Mr. Trump, as elsewhere in the industrial and Midwest region, needs a surge of support to repeat his narrow victory of 2016. In Wisconsin, also a swing state, the State Supreme Court sided with Republicans on Wednesday and threw out the stay-at-home order of Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat. In Texas, armed men have shown up to support businesses defying government orders to stay closed, an extreme sign of the politicizing of social distancing rules.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/pennsylvania-tom-wolf-coronavirus.html

Comments

Write a comment