I think it's very clear that the President can have great influence on the states. You know, he issued guidelines, CDC issued guidelines, blessed by the President, and they did have an effect, but they were not orders.
David Gergen explains the limits of the President's authority in relation to state decisions during the pandemic.
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If it is true, it's a dishonorable act and voters have to this November decide whether they want to discharge him or not.
the way that Donald Trump is responding to the pandemic is, I think is, they are giving him a lot of rope on the Democratic side and he is increasingly hanging himself.
He is obsessed with winning re-election. It's all about self-respect. It is whether he is going to be humiliated or not.
He is going to hand Joe Biden a country more divided than it needs to be by trying to de-legitimate an election that was clearly won by Joe Biden.
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