Republicans are lamenting the rash of COVID-19 infections among the party leaders, starting with President Donald Trump's White House and trickling to the Senate GOP, The Washington Post reported.
"There was a panic before this started, but now we're sort of the stupid party," Edward J. Rollins, co-chairman of the pro-Trump super PAC Great America, told the Post. "Candidates are being forced to defend themselves every day on whether they agree with this or that, in terms of what the president did on the virus."
The push to reopen the country and fight back against mask mandates might ultimately helping elect Democrats, experts feared to the Post.
"The president and the people around him flouted the rules," GOP strategist Michael Steele told the Post. "We wish him and his family a speedy recovery, but he has been reckless, and voters dealing with the health and economic effects on them and their families won't look on that kindly."
While red states have not been hit as much as blue states, the GOP figureheads have been far more impacted by the spate of COVID-19 infections, including: Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah; Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc.
"Their extraordinary rejection of what scientists have been recommending is coming home to roost," Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness Director Irwin E. Redlener, a former Biden adviser, told the Post.
"Everyone who hitched themselves to the president's dishonest messaging about the virus is being confronted with the reality that the president himself is sick."
Eric Mack ✉
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