Governors who pushed hardest for reopening get lowest approval
Source: American Independent
By Josh Israel -May 19, 2020 12:36 PM
Governors who bragged about keeping their states open also received low marks.
A 50-state poll released Tuesday shows that most governors who refused to issue stay-at-home orders or rushed to reopen their states get among the lowest marks for their handling of the coronavirus.
The SurveyMonkey data shows that while 49 of the 50 governors get majority approval for their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the eight who got the least support included three governors who never issued stay-at-home orders, another who co-authored a Washington Post opinion piece bragging about keeping his state "open for business" during the pandemic, and three more who have come under fire for reopening too quickly.
Of the seven governors all Republicans who refused to issue stay-at-home orders at any point in the pandemic, most rate in the bottom half nationally as far as approval. (Only North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum cracked the top 15.)
Four of those governors boasted earlier this month that their states "stayed open in the covid-19 pandemic" and that their "approach worked."
Read more: https://americanindependent.com/governors-coronavirus-polls-brian-kemp-ron-desantis-georgia-florida-gop-covid-19/
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Please note, I have notified American Independent that picture of the Snow Queen, is she is not the governor of North Dakota but of South Dakota..................
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(17,138 posts)IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)Sure these are rural red states, but they have been hit hard in the meat processing plants and Native American reservations. I doubt those folks appreciate their governors' lack of action.