Governors Face a Trump-Inspired Backlash to Ease Virus Rules
- Campaign booster propels a protest of Michigan’s Whitmer
- In Kentucky and Ohio, activists defy threat of pandemic
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Conservative groups are stirring a series of protests against stay-at-home orders from Democratic officials in crucial 2020 electoral battleground states, including Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who’s been cited as a possible running mate for Joe Biden in November.
Governors, many of them Democrats, are facing resistance that forces them to balance public health with anger from President Donald Trump’s base. States throughout the U.S. set rules confining people to homes and closing businesses as Washington’s response to the coronavirus epidemic was halting and sometimes contradictory, and consortiums with common policies are forming on the coasts and Midwest.