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(275 posts)from vanityfair: [link:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/inside-trumps-decision-to-back-off-of-his-easter-coronavirus-miracle|
Trump learned that his close friend, 78-year-old New York real estate mogul Stan Chera, had contracted COVID-19 and fallen into a coma at NewYork-Presbyterian. Boy, did that hit home. Stan is like one of his best friends, said prominent New York Trump donor Bill White. Trump also grew concerned as the virus spread to Trump country. The polling sucked. The campaign panicked about the numbers in red states. They dont expect to win states that are getting blown to pieces with coronavirus, a former West Wing official told me. From the beginning of the crisis, Trump had struggled to see it as anything other than a political problem, subject to his usual arsenal of tweets and attacks and bombast. But he ultimately realized that as bad as the stock market was, getting coronavirus wrong would end his presidency. The campaign doesnt matter anymore, he recently told a friend, what I do now will determine if I get reelected.