I swear to god I’ve seen a letter—not super long, perhaps two pages—from a Democratic polling firm addressed to the Biden team that more or less said, “COVID polls really poorly with voters, so you should stop talking about it if you want the party to do well in the midterms” (I think this was in early 2022?). I actually told someone about this recently, but I’m having trouble tracking the damn thing down. Part of the problem is that when you use the usual search terms (biden polls covid consultants 2022) it’s all public polls which are not what I’m interested in.

If I just misremembered this or bought into misinformation, I want to make sure I correct myself—both because I don’t want to further spread misinformation and I don’t want to damage my credibility by looking like a conspiracy nut. There are other things like the Delta airlines BS to point to politics driving the administration’s decisions around COVID rather than science, so there’s no need for me to make stuff up.