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Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz said that Trump’s promotion of the shots is “a really positive development” in the effort against the pandemic.
“This is significant,” Luntz said. “Trump telling people to get the vaccine right now will have a better, a bigger impact than anyone else, because it’s Republicans who aren’t vaccinated.”
Trump, Luntz said, probably realized he was not getting credit for the development of the shots during his presidency and knew that it was “impossible for him to ask for recognition without asking people to be vaccinated.”
Still, the former president’s promotion of the shots puts him at odds with a large portion of his base. The widest divide in vaccination rates in the United States is between Democrats and Republicans. Polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that, for every unvaccinated Democrat or Democratic-leaning independent, there are about three unvaccinated Republicans or Republican-leaning independents. Even among those who have already been vaccinated, Republicans are less likely to say they will get a booster.
The proportion of the unvaccinated that is made up of White Republicans has steadily grown as more Americans get their shots, according to KFF data. As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported, in January the unvaccinated population was about evenly distributed between White Democrats, White Republicans and White independents. Now almost no White Democrats are unvaccinated, so White Republicans make up far more of the unvaccinated population.
Publicly, many conservative politicians and commentators who have spoken against vaccination have done so to criticize Biden’s vaccine requirements.
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