- President Donald Trump's advisers got him to pay more attention to the COVID-19 pandemic by informing him that the surge in cases is hurting "our people" in Republican states, an administration official told The Washington Post.
- The tactic has seemed to "resonate" with Trump, The Post reported on Monday, as the president "hewed closely to pre-scripted remarks" in subsequent news briefings.
- Previously, the president had been losing interest in a pandemic that has cost an average of 850 deaths a day and killed more than 147,000 Americans.
- "The president got bored with it," David Carney, an adviser to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, told The New York Times earlier this month.
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President Donald Trump was "bored" with the pandemic, seeing it — an average of 850 deaths, each day, since February — as a distraction from all of the "wins," from a new trade deal to a soaring stock market, he wishes he could campaign on instead.
But then senior advisers tried a new approach: they told the president that the coronavirus wasn't just killing liberals in blue states, but hurting Republicans and could spread in swing states.
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