3 Stories You Should Read 05/12/2020: Trump, Fauci, Russia

May 12, 2020 Confluence

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In the category of: Haters gonna hate

Trump is getting trounced among a crucial constituency: The haters

In 2016, Donald Trump cleaned up among voters who disliked him and Hillary Clinton. This year, Biden is winning big among the comparable group.

It’s a significant and often underappreciated group of voters. Of the nearly 20 percent of voters who disliked both Clinton and Trump in 2016, Trump outperformed Clinton by about 17 percentage points, according to exit polls.

Four years later, that same group — including a mix of Bernie Sanders supporters, other Democrats, disaffected Republicans and independents — strongly prefers Biden, the polling shows. The former vice president leads Trump by more than 40 percentage points among that group, which accounts for nearly a quarter of registered voters, according to a Monmouth University poll last week.

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In the category of: Buckle up

Fauci Testifies U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Likely Underreported

“I don’t know the exact percent that it’s higher, but certainly, it’s higher,” the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases told the Senate health committee.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, told the Senate health committee on Tuesday that the true coronavirus death toll is likely higher than the numbers that have been reported so far.

“I don’t know the exact precent that it’s higher, but certainly, it’s higher,” Fauci said in response to a question from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

More people have probably died of the virus in New York City in particular, Fauci said, considering the extent the city’s health care system has been bogged down.

“There may have been people who died at home who did have COVID who were not counted as COVID because they had not gotten to the hospital,” he explained.

The U.S. death toll stands at nearly 81,000 deaths so far, with more than 1.3 million infections.

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In the category of: Superpowers

Coronavirus: Russia now has second-highest virus case total

In the last 24 hours the country has reported 10,899 infections, the tenth consecutive day that number has been above 10,000.

Among the infected is President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, local media report.

He is the latest high profile official to test positive, after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin caught the illness.

The news comes the day after President Putin eased the country’s lockdown. Factory and construction workers returned to work on Tuesday, though Mr Putin gave regions freedom to set restrictions depending on local circumstances.

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