Voters Disagree on Administration’s Response to Coronavirus, but Agree on Seriousness of the Crisis
With the nationwide near-total shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we asked participants in the Jewish Political Voices Project (JPVP) what they thought about the response from political leaders. We also wanted to know how their lives have changed as “social distancing” becomes the new normal.
The crisis so far shows few signs of bridging the political divide between Republican and Democratic JPVP participants. The Democrats are nearly uniform in their condemnation of the federal response to the pandemic, while several Republicans praise the Trump administration’s actions and say their support for the president has grown. Iowa Republican Bud Hockenberg, 92, calls the federal response “perfect” and says it has “increased my support” for Trump. North Carolina Republican Mark Goldhaber, 67, characterizes the federal response as “reasonably strong,” even though it was “slow off the...