Trump advisers tell him virus hurting 'our people,' Republicans: WaPo - Business Insider

President Donald Trump was "bored" with the coronavirus pandemic, seeing it — and its average of 850 American deaths, each day, since February — as a distraction from all of the "wins" he wished he could campaign on instead. But then, apparently, senior advisers tried a new approach: They told the president the coronavirus wasn't just killing liberals in blue states but was hurting Republicans and could spread in swing states. "Our people."
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-advisers-tell-him-virus-hurting-republicans-swing-states-wapo-2020-7