Coronavirus polls update 09/23/20

Who do you trust more on information about the coronavirus via new Quinnipiac poll:

Democrats:
1% President Trump
97% CDC scientists

Republicans:
51% President Trump
36% CDC scientists
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) September 23, 2020

New poll: 51% of Republicans say they trust President Trump over CDC scientists on COVID-19, another indication of how partisan politics have consumed the national conversation about the virus. https://t.co/rrNmouLj8T
— Fadel Allassan (@FadelAllassan) September 23, 2020

ARIZONA
Has [see below] done a good job or bad job handling the coronavirus outbreak?

Donald Trump
Good job 42%
Bad job 55%

Governor Doug Ducey
Good job 48%
Bad job 49%

(Monmouth U. Poll, RV, 9/11-15/20)https://t.co/IiCgGgKEMr
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) September 17, 2020

Most Americans are skeptical of Pres. Trump's performance on the COVID pandemic, disbelieving of his rhetoric on the virus and critical of what they view as his lagging approach to containing it, new @ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. https://t.co/IHcVMCBkU1
— ABC News (@ABC) September 15, 2020

New @pewresearch poll in 14 countries: Has your country done a good job dealing with coronavirus?

Denmark 95%
Australia 94%
Canada 88%
Germany 88%
Netherlands 87%
South Korea 86%
Italy 74%
Sweden 71%
Belgium 61%
France 59%
Japan 55%
Spain 54%
United States 47%
United Kingdom 46%
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 28, 2020

Mueller failed to fully investigate Trump

He also didn’t do anywhere near enough after Barr lied about the report.

This is an indictment of Mueller but it’s also an indictment of the Dems on the other end of these conversations who opposed a broader impeachment only because Mueller didn’t storyboard it for them. https://t.co/ey1klxGzMU
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 22, 2020

NEW >>> Mueller team found sufficient evidence that Trump committed a crime, enough to charge him if he wasn't a sitting president. Prosecutor is still "flummoxed" that Mueller would not * just say it * in his report. https://t.co/FM58FybyW6
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) September 21, 2020

The same business account that Cohen used to send hush payments to an adult film star also received “payments linked to a Russian oligarch.” ⁦@charlie_savage⁩ https://t.co/mpc3uduA9Y
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 22, 2020

Republicans have made Supreme Court votes partisan

Republicans are basically now saying that a Republican president and Senate should select a justice because they are the same party. It wasn’t always this way. It used to be that the votes were based on whether the nominee was qualified, not if you agreed with all of their policies. 30 years ago (and under different nominating circumstances) I would have voted for Gorsuch even though I don’t agree with him on much. He’s qualified. I wouldn’t have voted for Kavanaugh since the allegations against him were not fully investigated.

Let’s look at some controversial nominations which show votes didn’t use to be almost exclusively on party lines. When Robert Bork was nominated, two Democrats voted for him and six Republicans voted against him. When Clarence Thomas was confirmed, 11 Democrats voted for him. He would not have been approved without them. Two Republicans opposed him.

Here are all the votes for justices that have been confirmed since 1970:

Justice	Confirmation vote	Year
Blackmun	94-0	1970
Powell	89-1	1971
Rehnquist	68-26	1971
Stevens	98-0	1975
O’Connor	99-0	1981
Rehnquist (chief justice)	65-33	1986
Scalia	98-0	1986
Kennedy	97-0	1988
Souter	90-9	1990
Thomas	52-48	1991
Ginsburg	96-3	1993
Breyer	87-9	1994
Roberts	78-22	2005
Alito	58-42	2006
Sotomayor	68-31	2009
Kagan	63-37	2010
Gorsuch	54-45	2017
Kavanaugh	50-48	2018

Though the votes got closer, there were still senators that voted for justices nominated by the other party. For example, 22 Democrats voted for Roberts. Lindsey Graham was one of five Republicans who voted for Kagan.

Because of Republican hypocrisy on Garland and the next Trump nominee, votes will be strictly along party lines indefinitely.

Confirmation vote information was taken from here.

Here's a massive list of lies that were told about Sotomayor: https://t.co/rEULqraMzM https://t.co/BV0pnF3u0M
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 22, 2020

Trump lies from 9/16-17

Unlimited lies

"I counted at least 12 false or misleading claims from the President," CNN's @ddale8 fact checks some of President Trump's claims from Wednesday's news conference pic.twitter.com/McwJns15ip
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 17, 2020

Per word spoken or tweeted, Trump might be more dishonest about voting and election integrity than about any other subject.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2020

Trump, trailing in national polls and in polls of key swing states, on Fox Sports Radio this morning: "The only way they can win is to cheat, in my opinion." Entirely baseless.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2020

Trump repeats his usual lie about how “the cupboard was bare” of ventilators when he took office. His own admin acknowledges they inherited more than 16,000 ventilators in working order. https://t.co/RPKvDdX0sE
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020

Schools and coronavirus update 9/16/20

🚨: LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said Tuesday that most of his team has contracted COVID-19.

"Not all of our players, but most of our players have caught it," Orgeron told reporters. https://t.co/OarFVAWsHO
— Matt Rogers 🗳 (@Politidope) September 15, 2020

Since many Florida public schools opened their doors about a month ago, the number of children under 18 who have contracted Covid-19 statewide has jumped 26%, state data show https://t.co/jTa67LS9jj
— CNN (@CNN) September 15, 2020

Students at Univ of Wisconsin – La Crosse told to shelter in place as COVID-19 on campus soars. https://t.co/0gu042rDfN
— Heidi Li Feldman (@HeidiLiFeldman) September 15, 2020

Florida school districts are defying Gov. Ron DeSantis and publicly reporting new Covid-19 cases among students and staff. https://t.co/bMxLx2xEyy
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 11, 2020

Meanwhile…https://t.co/TVaQg6WJM1
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) September 11, 2020

Surely, coronavirus outbreaks surging out of control on college campuses was literally the most predictable crisis ever. https://t.co/OevP3niNru
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 10, 2020

Selfish people who won’t wear masks

Selfish people ignoring science who don’t care about the health of everyone else.

One of the signs of Covid-19 is lack of taste. https://t.co/shG9pyyaQJ
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 16, 2020

*sigh*
Please let’s name her. I’m curious to read her statement of regret that is eventually coming. https://t.co/ejV3byQ0PS
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) September 12, 2020

From Trump's rally in Freeland, MI, last night:

CNN's Jim Acosta: "Why are you not wearing your mask?"

Rallygoer: "Because there's no COVID. It's a fake pandemic. Created to destroy the United States of America."

It gets even worse. pic.twitter.com/4c3KPqbYEO
— The Recount (@therecount) September 11, 2020

"You have no authority over me!"

That's the battle cry of all these guys. You're not the boss of me. https://t.co/DIzGRcUqon
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 30, 2020

Assaulting a worker who is enforcing face mask policies can now be prosecuted as aggravated battery in Illinois – a felony charge. https://t.co/im33CRtBmD
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 17, 2020

A teen working at a children's theme park in Pennsylvania was punched in the face for enforcing the park's face mask policy, police say https://t.co/1LiCyQEWdO
— CNN (@CNN) August 12, 2020

This is entirely the fault of Trump and the GOP. They spent months encouraging this behavior https://t.co/5A3WTGTVOB
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) August 11, 2020

In case @WyndhamHotels monitors its Twitter feed, you should know the LaQuinta at Central & Meadow in Dallas is having trouble enforcing the mask policy. Big percent of guests only wear them when they pass the front desk. No masks in elevators & hallways. Staff feels helpless.
— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) August 30, 2020

The crowd at Trump’s NH rally just booed an announcement telling people to put on their masks
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) August 28, 2020

The CDC advises retail and restaurant workers not to argue with customers who refuse to wear masks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirushttps://t.co/VqwnqlTnX9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 26, 2020

. @flotus now shaking hands and talking closely with the 30 or so children at the art event, also hugging some of them. No masks on Melania Trump or the children.
A White House East Wing official tells me they were tested this morning. But the no-mask message is evident. pic.twitter.com/y52LDnRzmE
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) August 24, 2020

So we ask a guy, who is standing with his little kid and older father, if they could put on masks. His response: “You must be voting for Biden.” Our country was driven into a ditch. Supporters of the driver cheer him rather than listen to those trying to get us out of the ditch.
— Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer) August 15, 2020

Marion County, Fla., Sheriff Billy Woods bans deputies from wearing face masks https://t.co/3ja8eYIDOj
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) August 12, 2020

Death cult.

The thing is, they know they're wrong. It's not enough for them to reject wearing masks, they want *you* to *affirm* them in it because the last little bit of rationality in them is making them feel humiliated and it's intolerable to them. https://t.co/YeIj7QHcpa
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 11, 2020

American men are still resisting wearing masks. The problem, experts say, is they’re afraid of looking weak. https://t.co/6quqUxyIS9
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 10, 2020

Why do the people who won’t wear a mask for other people care if people won’t stand for the anthem for other people?
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) August 10, 2020

Many Americans don’t just dislike masks — they see them as a fundamental intrusion on their personal liberties, and don’t believe the pandemic is nearly as bad as scientists say it is. Anti-maskers share why they're anti-mask: https://t.co/DQcKZiLjkw
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 9, 2020

The arguments anti-mask advocates use are nearly identical to what anti–seat belt lobbyists used https://t.co/SJgyuT6NfE
— CNN (@CNN) August 8, 2020

If you've ever wondered, "what the hell are anti-mask people thinking???" @EmilyStewartM talked to nearly a dozen of them to find out, including a Florida State rep and a woman banned from her local Menards. https://t.co/9f1wfVdnhw
— Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) August 7, 2020

She’s not a whiz https://t.co/CpnGgh25Dn
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 19, 2020

White anti-mask protesters jeered a black pastor demanding Tulsa race massacre reparations https://t.co/RdLJ8Ph0JI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 18, 2020

A defining characteristic of the virus surge across the Sunbelt from FL/GA to TX/AZ: GOP Govs, following Trump's cues, who have prevented local Ds from acting as caseloads soar: "Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks." https://t.co/Mws1oKWpd9
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 16, 2020

Georgia's Gov Kemp is demanding Georgians not wear masks. This is frightening. https://t.co/vgg9gmvbxY
— Touré (@Toure) July 16, 2020

A middle-aged man in a Make America Great Again hat — and no mask — walked into a Kansas City BBQ. When chided by employees, the man said he had an exemption to the mask order: He then lifted up his shirt, revealing a gun in a holster on his hip. #moleg https://t.co/ENx3kRZu4B
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 13, 2020

Two D.C.-area restaurant employees were assaulted after enforcing mask rules. Others worry they will be next.

imagine the pathology that’d be ascribed to black people if they were behaving like this in such large numbers. https://t.co/XOwN2j7S77
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) July 13, 2020

The mask culture war has got to be one of the dumbest and most destructive political/cultural disputes in modern American political history. And we're continuing to pay the price.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 11, 2020

Ohio man in his 30s dies from Covid two months after vowing to not wear mask and dismissing them as “damn hype” https://t.co/v1Z6x9z96R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 11, 2020

Yet, the stereotype is that Black women are angry. Go figure. https://t.co/r13WQlXojk
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) July 11, 2020

Fox News contributor Dan Bongino declared this week that he “will not comply” with his county’s mandatory mask orders, boasting on his podcast that he will tell those mandating masks amid a deadly pandemic to “shove it right up your ass”https://t.co/jIpU5NjMX2
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 9, 2020

Retail workers are being pulled into the latest culture war: Getting customers to wear masks https://t.co/6s5p18aq5U
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 9, 2020

Tucker Carlson, who said “masks work,” now claims they have “no basis” in science https://t.co/P0ry2PsBrT
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 8, 2020

On the first day of Oregon’s statewide mask order, a group of Oregon State troopers refused to wear face coverings inside a Corvallis coffee shop despite being asked to so.

“F— [Gov.] Kate Brown,” one of the troopers reportedly said. There’s video, too. https://t.co/Lt8kIPxDCK
— Shane D. Kavanaugh (@shanedkavanaugh) July 2, 2020

NYPD cop calls straphanger a male Karen when asked why he isn't wearing a mask https://t.co/rjhq7jDaoI via @nypmetro
— Patrick LaForge (@palafo) September 16, 2020

Trump’s Opportunity Zone scam

just another way to help rich people

From @strickdc and @ReporterBlayne Trump says Opportunity Zones have created thousands of jobs, but experts say most investment has been in real estate deals that don't create long-term jobs. https://t.co/cPEeashE2f
— NBC Investigations (@NBCInvestigates) September 12, 2020

“Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, pushed for Opportunity Zone tax breaks to be included in Trump's 2017 tax overhaul. The breaks offer investors big cuts in capital gains taxes”

Value went from $5 m 3yrs ago to $25m

But Hunter Biden nothing. https://t.co/LUENNEUB4h
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 5, 2020

On the same day Kushner cashes in on the "opportunity zone" scam, Trump touts it as a huge favor for black America https://t.co/ytDDFrf2zD
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) March 5, 2020

Treasury watchdog probing Trump administration's Opportunity Zone program
Entire program is a real estate tax scam for wealthy investors
Trump friends & family (Kushner) have reaped tax benefits.
https://t.co/y7j5jaTq9n via @nbcnews
— Cameron Lewis (@yoURDATAisyours) September 12, 2020

Shameless LIES!

This ONLY benefited your greedy family and your rich, greedy corporate cronies.

Opportunity Zone knocks: Kushner-linked firm buys hot real estate under program that is SUPPOSED to be for the poor.
#TrumpFailure #TrumpRiots https://t.co/NGA8WPZUbl
— Sylvia Cox (Take 2 … ) (@CoxTake) August 30, 2020

1) Opportunity Zone has been a benefit for wealthy investors like the Kushner Family.https://t.co/c8VghubrnO

2)I find no info regarding trump personally donating to Black Colleges. Please cite your source.

3)Biden’s crime bill was 26yrs ago. I’m sure he will make revisions.
— DawnO (@dmol79) September 12, 2020

Vigilantes have shown up at Black Lives Matters protests

These folks with guns scare me. What are they going to do if Trump loses the election?

Since the spring, militias have shown up at Black Lives Matter protests at least 55 times, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. https://t.co/fHd5aBsbcg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 7, 2020

Veteran interviewed by @KatyTurNBC about potential violence during the November elections:

“Would you take up arms?”

“If that’s what it comes to.”

“Really?”

“Absolutely I would.” pic.twitter.com/Zw9rPBwEEi
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 8, 2020

Last week, following heavy press coverage of vigilante violence at protests, several analyses relied in part on my research to suggest Biden was likely to take a hit. A compelling new piece from @ThePlumLineGS shows that hasn’t happened. Why might that be?https://t.co/a2K52OKL7P pic.twitter.com/rB767xBB8w
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) September 5, 2020

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People who frequently attended church were 16 times more likely to report that they had tested positive for COVID-19, according to a new study. https://t.co/hRWIEg3cF5 pic.twitter.com/IqI1gbqr1o
— WebMD (@WebMD) September 20, 2020

35 Places You're Most Likely to Catch COVID https://t.co/d1KsetXsdI
— Hardamon (@iamhardamon) September 12, 2020

Adults who tested positive for Covid-19 were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant in the 14 days before becoming ill than those who tested negative, according to a new CDC study https://t.co/l9JTriBumZ
— CNN (@CNN) September 11, 2020

A team of experts on food contamination says it is highly unlikely that food is a source of Covid-19 transmission https://t.co/aAxDsB4hgd
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2020

A new study has found a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19, though researchers say that doesn’t mean loading up on so-called sunshine pills will protect you from the virus. https://t.co/F3XHTGDDKP
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 3, 2020

Opinion: It’s time to talk about how toilets may be spreading covid-19 https://t.co/eqY9JYl4uO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 2, 2020

55% of coronavirus patients still have neurological problems three months later: study https://t.co/UVeCwPrWLo
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) August 31, 2020

A new Centers for Disease Control report shows 94% of people who died after contracting COVID-19 had contributing health conditions, underscoring why the virus is so dangeroushttps://t.co/0oG98OdVo6
— Axios (@axios) August 31, 2020

Fast, Less Accurate Coronavirus Tests May Ease the U.S. Backlog, Experts Say https://t.co/MnMHyH1yOI
— frates (@frates) August 30, 2020

5 unanswered medical questions about coronavirus

I am recovering. But the last five months were the worst of my life. Wear a mask. https://t.co/tKlU00kWnO
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) September 8, 2020

"Dr. #Fauci Just Said How You'll Most Likely Get COVID" #coronavirus https://t.co/MSVNHkYtCR via @Yahoo
— Epathea Litmer (@EpatheaLitmer) September 11, 2020