Heilemann: Trump Will Not Get Vaccinated Publicly Because ‘Hard Core Trump Voters Are Anti-Vaxxers’

‘There’s in Donald Trump’s coalition, there is a non-trivial number of anti-vaccine individuals’

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HEILEMANN: “This has been a problem that's been bubbling up over the course of past couple of decades. And now we’re in the middle of the most serious public health crisis of our lifetimes, where the vaccine is the key to getting back to normalcy. And we're going to have to take on in a forward — in a four-square, forward-looking way the problem of the anti-vax cult in America. And Donald Trump, who has never been on the side of science, and Donald Trump who has, we know, a large chunk of the Trump base, not the majority, but a nontrivial number of hardcore Trump voters are anti-vaxxers. And there have been moments where we’ve seen in the past, there were anti-vax conferences that were being organized in the course of 2020 where you could see, the conferences were MAGA people who were out, saying we’re never going to take this vaccine.”

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