Some states would be able to “go literally tomorrow,” Trump said, thanks to how well they’d done combating the virus. In fact, more than 100,000 have died since Trump made that prediction — belying Trump’s assertion that the total would not exceed 100,000 in total. The Fox poll shows how confidence in the government’s approach to the crisis has collapsed since earlier in the year. ADAD“I want people to have a certain freedom, and I don’t believe in that,” Trump said of a national mask mandate. Two-thirds of evangelicals and two-thirds of white men without college degrees do, too, according to the Fox News poll.

Source: Washington Post July 20, 2020 14:42 UTC