Former U.S. President Donald Trump again recommended that the population be vaccinated against coronavirus and noted that he would recommend immunizing “a lot of people who don’t want to do it, and a lot of those people voted for me.” “.
In an interview with Fox News television Tuesday night, Trump acknowledged that people are free to decide for themselves whether they want to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
“We have our freedoms and we have to live according to that, and I agree with that too. But it’s a great vaccine. It’s a safe vaccine and it’s something that works,” he said.
Republican opposition to receiving the vaccine is strong. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 42% of Republicans said they would probably or definitely not get immunized, compared to 17% of Democrats.
Trump has already promoted vaccination before. In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 28 he said “Everyone, go coin-.”