Former President Donald Trump may have political reasons behind why he has not urged people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Trump appears to not want to do any ‘favors’ for President Joe Biden or risk alienating his core supporters, many of whom polls show are against the vaccines, anonymous sources told The Daily Beast.
Of note, Trump and his family members are vaccinated, and the ex-president in a prior interview said he would ‘recommend’ that people get vaccinated.
Some of Trump’s allies feel the former president has not done enough to encourage his supporters to get vaccinated. Four anonymous sources who spoke with The Daily Beast said they talked with Trump or former First Lady Melania about pushing vaccinations, which he reportedly did not take up.
Many of the states and counties across the US with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Trump over Biden. Some believe that only Republican leadership can motivate hardline conservatives to get vaccinated.
People close to Trump say that he is worried that endorsing the vaccine could affect his poll numbers among his followers. Trump doesn’t want to push too hard on the subject, so as to not ‘piss off his base’, one source told The Daily Beast.
In late July, a poll conducted by Monmouth University found that Republicans represent the majority of people who are unswerving in their opposition to vaccines.
Trump last month stated he sympathized with anti-vaxxers because they are ‘refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust (Biden’s) Administration, they don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth’.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has said that ‘maybe the vaccine doesn’t work’ and has suggested that vaccinations are responsible for dozens of people’s deaths.
However, close allies of Trump including former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Fox News host Sean Hannity who is close to him, have spoken out in favor of vaccination.
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