While Republicans and Democrats differed somewhat in their approaches, the entire country began to emerge from lockdown in May 2020. Most Democratic governors began relaxing restrictions around the same time that Republican governors began to do so. Democratic governors were more cautious than their Republican counterparts. They tended to relax restrictions more gradually. They did not commit to dates for reopening. They preferred, instead, to wait and see how the pandemic evolved. Like Democrats, most Republican governors began to lift restrictions gradually, in phases, but their timetables
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