The death count alone reportedly wasn’t enough to dissuade Trump from re-opening the economy in early April
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There appear to be a few proven ways to influence the labile decision-making process of the president: His advisers can appeal to television or approval ratings, be Jared Kushner, or warn him that a certain action can harm his chances at reelection.
According to the Washington Post, White House officials told the president that “a spike in deaths could be even more politically damaging in November than the current economic downturn,” an argument that helped encourage Trump to extend social distancing guidelines until the end of April.
Electoral prospects aside, the potential death count itself also influenced Trump.
Though, for now, Trump moved on from his rhetoric dismissing the health crisis as less important the the economic one, not all Republican leaders have picked up on the shift. On Monday morning, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson wrote an op-ed in USA Today encouraging the economy to remain as open as possible. He picked an odd way of encouraging those who may face coronavirus exposure at their jobs: “Every premature death is a tragedy, but death is an unavoidable part of life.
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