Despite Protests, Most Americans Still Support Coronavirus Restrictions
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, and WITF health reporter Brett Sholtis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Marty at the University of Southern Maine campus in Gora, Maine |
| 0:05.4 | Coming in to the School of Music because someone still has to come in to water the pianos. What? |
| 0:11.2 | This politics podcast was recorded at it is |
| 0:15.1 | 206 Eastern on Wednesday April 22nd things are gonna change |
| 0:20.4 | Hopefully everyone will be coming back to the School of Music real soon enjoy the show |
| 0:25.2 | I know nothing about music. I didn't know that was a thing. I thought he was gonna say water the plants |
| 0:32.8 | Well, maybe he's doing that too. How do you water a piano? I don't know |
| 0:37.0 | We have a lot of follow-up questions. Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Scott Detro |
| 0:41.9 | I'm covering the White House and I'm Mara Lies and National Political Correspondent. Hey, Mara. Hey Scott |
| 0:47.1 | So with support from national conservative groups there are these protests springing up across the country to challenge |
| 0:54.3 | Restrictive orders you're seeing them at state capitals in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado, Washington state, North Dakota, California |
| 1:08.6 | Now health care experts say the stay-at-home measures are necessary to prevent tens or possibly |
| 1:14.7 | Hundreds of thousands of additional deaths. That's on top of the 44,000 people who have already died from the coronavirus |
| 1:21.8 | And despite President Trump sympathy for these protests which we're gonna talk about the White House still has stay-at-home guidelines in place |
| 1:28.8 | So we're gonna walk through all of this and what it means today and Mara |
| 1:32.5 | Let's start with some context here because these protests are getting a lot of attention |
| 1:37.2 | How representative is this view of how Americans are generally feeling? |
| 1:43.1 | It's not representative of how |
| 1:46.1 | Americans are feeling in general what we know from a Quinnipiac poll that was taken in the beginning of April |
| 1:51.2 | Seven out of ten voters 70% said that the coronavirus crisis in the US was getting worse only 8% saw it getting better and |
| 1:59.3 | A whopping 81% of voters said they would support a stay-at-home order on a national level |
| 2:04.2 | The protesters are definitely in the minority, but they represent something real which is people are worried about the economy |
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