INTERVIEW WITH AN ANTI-VAXXER NAMED DENNIS, A TRUMP SUPPORTER

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With so many in this country hesitant to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and new, more highly contagious variants like Delta proliferating, it's important to understand why people feel the way they do.

The United States is not overcoming this pandemic anytime soon with a substantial number of anti-vaxxers.

Polls show that a substantial number of Republicans, particularly Trump supporters are not only hesitant, but determined NOT to get vaccinated against covid.

Below is the interview between CNN's Donie O'Sullivan and a Trump supporter named Dennis.

O’SULLIVAN: Have you been vaccinated?

DENNIS: No.

O’SULLIVAN: Why not?

DENNIS: Not going to.

O’SULLIVAN: Any particular reason?

DENNIS: God gave us natural immunities to everything. Why would you wanna interfere?

O’SULLIVAN: You’re an older man than I am. You’re probably in the — what the government would say is the risk category.

DENNIS: Well, who come up with that?

O’SULLIVAN: The scientists and the doctors.

DENNIS: Who told them to say that?

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O’SULLIVAN: Even though it’s the Trump vaccine, the doctors, the scientists–

DENNIS: That ain’t a Trump vaccine. He did it to please everybody that put the pressure on him.

O’SULLIVAN: He got the shot himself.

DENNIS: Who says he got the shot? He got fixed up.

O’SULLIVAN: He got the shot. He got it in January I think before he left the–

DENNIS: I don’t think he got the shot. I think he got some stuff to make him better.

O’Sullivan told Cooper he thinks this interview is an example of “the base controlling Trump,” and said that the former president “has been very, very quiet about the vaccine in many ways.” He pointed to the fact that it wasn’t disclosed that Trump had got the vaccine until well after he left the presidency.

“He knows that by pushing this vaccine by encouraging his supporters too hard to get it, that he could alienate that base,” said O’Sullivan.