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Trump's Gamble on Reopening May Not Pay Off
Risking lives for the sake of the economy isn’t much of an electoral strategy.
Not the voters he needs.
Photographer: Mark Ralston/AFP
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The oddest thing in electoral politics over the past few weeks is what appears to be absolute, and unfounded, confidence among some Republican strategists that there’s a trade-off between public health and the economy, and that what matters for President Donald Trump’s re-election is the economy.