The obvious problem with blaming coronavirus deaths on Joe Biden
Last Friday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a cynical argument against President Biden. After attacking Biden’s proposal that employers mandate either vaccination or weekly testing, McCarthy offered a deeply misleading bit of data.
“I know President Biden promised America that he could handle covid,” McCarthy said. “More people have died from covid this year than last year.”
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This is true. But those statements, suggesting that Biden has done a worse job handling the pandemic than did Trump, depends on several misleading bits of data. It also depends on ignoring the fact that coronavirus deaths in 2021 have disproportionately occurred in more-Republican areas.
If we look at the number of deaths per month, we see that latter point clearly. At the beginning of the pandemic, in spring 2020, most of the deaths that occurred were occurring in counties that ended up voting for Joe Biden in that year’s presidential contest. Now, though, more deaths occurred in Trump-voting counties, for four months in a row.
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