Analysis: On issue after issue, Trump and DeSantis attack one another for positions they once held themselves.
and repeatedly praised Operation Warp Speed, both encouraging people to get vaccinated and hailing the project for cutting out the bureaucratic red tape. He even decried the politicization of the vaccines.
This vaccine issue epitomizes the clash between the two campaigns. Both embraced certain proposals and people when it was the easy political call. Then they moved in a different direction along with the GOP base when it became clear those positions were no longer en vogue.There are variances. Trump has stood more firmly by the vaccine program than DeSantis has, for example. But even Trump has been wary of trying too hard to combat the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment in the MAGA movement.
But to the extent the GOP wants to nominate an anti-vaccine, anti-Wray, anti-Fauci, anti-entitlement-reform candidate who never supported the cause of the George Floyd protesters, they’ll apparently have some uneasy choices ahead.
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