At White House, re-election advisers rise as coronavirus task force fades

WASHINGTON — As the White House Coronavirus Task Force begins to fade from public view and health professionals take a back seat to President Donald Trump's economic team, a new group of counselors has started to dominate the president's thinking on the pandemic: a less official but potentially more significant re-election task force.

Made up of familiar campaign staff, senior White House aides and some surprising new outside advisers, the team doesn't meet regularly but it constantly bends the president's ear and has largely overtaken medical experts as the president's focus shifts from a health challenge to an economic and political one, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

The public absence of previously ubiquitous experts around the president has been notable — until Friday, Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci hadn't been face to face in more than two weeks, according to a source close to the nation's top infectious disease expert. The two men, who both had exposure to White House staffers who tested positive for the virus last week, appeared in the Rose Garden to unveil their "warp speed" vaccine effort. Fauci, who has been operating under a "modified" quarantine following his exposure, was wearing a mask, the president was not.

Also noteworthy is the ever-increasing role being assumed by the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, whose portfolio of responsibilities now spans from pandemic response to economic recovery concerns and the November election.

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If people are still dying they're not going to care about his campaign bullshit.