An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political ramifications.
New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, last week pulled no punches in seeking some vindication for himself and other Democrats who battled the virus first and faced skepticism from Trump and other Republicans.
__ Counties won by President Donald Trump are seeing new cases in the last week at almost the same rate as those counties that Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
But that follows Clinton counties having a declining share of new cases for much of the spring after imposing initial rounds of social distancing guidelines and restrictions on business and public gatherings.
New cases in states with Republican governors, regardless of how those states voted in 2016, now considerably outpace those in states run by Democrats.
