NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander:
“I'm struck by the clips you played
earlier in the broadcast of those Republican governors in states who have had
to reverse their reopenings or halt them all together. You'll remember in the
early stages of this pandemic the president sort of cast himself as a wartime
president. That we were fighting a war here. If he's the commander, in
effect, these Republican governors in states like Arizona, Florida and Texas
are his generals. And right now they are in retreat.
“As it relates to the president,
you're sort of seeing the different stages of grief. You've seen denial, you've
seen anger and now it appears you're going to be seeing more acceptance. White
House officials telling us that they will focus on this sort of
acknowledgement, this recognition that the virus is not going to be going
away. Certainly not before the election. The challenge is whether they can
communicate that message that we have to learn to live with it given the fact
that from the president, this last week, as you've noted, he said he hopes
it's just going to disappear. And in recent days he said he believes it is
under control and, quote, being handled.”
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Meet the Press 07/05/2020
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