Several thousand of his supporters waited in the chill, and every major Republican pol in the state who didn’t have COVID dropped everything to be there. And why shouldn’t they? The day before, the White House had put out a sheet of its “science and technology accomplishments,” beginning with the top one: “ENDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” As FiveThirtyEight’s Clare Malone noted, “That day alone, 983 Americans died.”
