MONITOR: Election 2020

Republican Governors Aren’t Taking the Pandemic Seriously

Their reasoning for not issuing shelter-in-place orders flies in the face of logic

Governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting about the Governors Initiative on Regulatory Innovation in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Despite the fact that the U.S. has surpassed China in its number of Covid-19 cases, the Trump administration continues to downplay the crisis and dismiss the notion of…