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    'I really don't think he has done a great job': COVID-19 puts Florida at risk for Trump

    by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2020 5 minutes

    PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Priscilla Skalka figured Donald Trump's experience as a businessman would serve him well as president, so the Florida retiree voted for him.

    Four years later, she's convinced he lacks what it takes to run the country.

    The pandemic has upended Skalka's life, first with depression as it kept family away, then with a terrifying case of COVID-19 that put her in intensive care at a St. Petersburg hospital. She believes Trump failed to take the threat seriously early on.

    "I really don't think he has done a great job," said the 79-year-old independent voter, who was wearing a surgical mask as she leaned on her cane in the sweltering heat outside a home improvement store.

    Skalka's souring on Trump illustrates how his failure to contain the coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans, has undercut his standing among older white voters, imperiling the Republican's prospects

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