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America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN

(CNN) -- While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble,
state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded,
which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot.
https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/president-donald-trump-45
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/us/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/health/wuhan-coronavirus-timeline-fast-facts/index.html

As emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march across southern and Western states, Trump stuck to the fiction that the worst is already over: "We had to close it down; now we're opening it up," the President said of the economy at the White House, patting himself on the back for saving "millions of lives."

As new cases of the disease reach 60,000 a day nationwide, many leaders, including those who supported Trump's aggressive approach, now have little choice but to prioritize science over politics, leaving the President looking out of touch with reality.

In Texas, Houston's Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner proposed a two-week shutdown, days after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott raised the possibility of more stringent measures after issuing a mask wearing mandate that offended conservative orthodoxy.
West Virginia called time's up in bars in the worst-hit county.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-states-economy-coronavirus/index.html