Division, discord, and democracy: A forum on the 2020 U.S. Presidential campaign

Martin, Stephanie A.

doi:10.1080/00335630.2021.1984432

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“…Our analysis of attention to the COVID‐19 pandemic by presidential candidates in the 2020 election would be incomplete if we did not acknowledge the existence of another nationwide crisis occurring at the same time. According to Martin (2021), Biden's defeat of Trump during a global pandemic following months of racial reckoning and protests after the high‐profile killing of George Floyd by police, shaped a contentious campaign season that included attacks against women, people of color, and immigrants. Scholars like Hardeman et al (2020) argued that police violence, the racial inequities in COVID‐19 exposure and health care, and other forms of structural racism compounded the public health crisis and led some to refer to this as “twin pandemics.” Manning (2020) refers to the “Time of Two Pandemics” that was acute, chronic, and acute‐on‐chronic with the compounding loss of coronavirus casualties and the high‐profile killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd.…”

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COVID‐19 and 2020 presidential election speeches: A content analysis of pandemic campaign rhetoric

Hatcher,

Ginn

2024

World Med & Health Policy

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This study examines how public health issues were communicated during the 2020 US presidential campaign, particularly those concerning the global COVID‐19 pandemic. Using content analysis, we examined the available campaign speeches of the two major candidates, Donald Trump and Joseph R. Biden. We examined how the candidates discussed the COVID‐19 pandemic and vital areas of public health in those speeches. Analysis of these speeches found little discussion on healthcare in general and little to no discussion on the vital areas of public health. We also found that COVID‐19 statements were not as prevalent as we anticipated, given the unprecedented scope of the pandemic. Even during a pandemic, public health matters received very little attention during a Presidential campaign. Public health topics accounted for less than 1% of the content in candidates' official speeches. Given that elites help increase knowledge of public health concerns and influence policy, the lack of attention given to the pandemic in the 2020 general election cycle is surprising, if not alarming.

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