The COVID-19 Election: State and Local Health Policies and the 2020 Presidential Election

• In Event: Political Behavior and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

Brief Overview

State and local officials prescribed many of the policies that drove the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe how the perception of these policies altered existing political preferences in voter choice during the 2020 Presidential election.

Authors

• Nancy Erendyda Aguilera, University of Missouri-St Louis

• Ty Rhoads, University of Missouri-St Louis

• Jake Shaw, University of Missouri-St Louis