David Chalian: We’ve Never Seen a Politician with the Kind of Loyal Base of Support Like Donald Trump Has

‘Of course he got a booster because, you know, Donald Trump understands the science and wants to keep himself healthy’

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CHALIAN: "I mean, where was this President Trump when he was still in office, last year at this point, as shots were going into arms, when he got the vaccine in private, not in public, not in any effort to convince, persuade the American people, his loyal supporters, John. We’ve never seen a politician with the kind of a loyal base of support like Donald Trump has — that it was safe and effective, good enough for him, good enough for him now, we're learning, to get a booster, even though just a couple weeks ago he was saying he probably won’t get a booster. But of course he got a booster because, you know, Donald Trump understands the science and wants to keep himself healthy. But it was interesting to hear sort of what his diminution of the vaccine throughout this last year has brought, which is that crowd, a portion of it, started booing when he said he got the boosters. And yeah, he wanted to tamp that down, make that, 'Oh, that’s just a few people in the back,' but we’ve seen how so many of his supporters have been vaccine-resistant.”

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