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GOP, Fox News have waged war on science. With coronavirus, will their aging fans pay the price? | Will Bunch

Polls show Republicans are less likely to take coronavirus seriously, putting GOP's older base at risk. Blame Fox, Trump, and "the war on science."

Trump supporter Jack McGovern, 67, pulls up in his car to take a picture of the Fox News tractor trailer parked outside the Scranton Cultural Center on March 4., the day before President Trump made his first visit of 2020 to the battleground state of Pennsylvania, for a Fox News town hall-style event at the former Masonic Temple and Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Trump supporter Jack McGovern, 67, pulls up in his car to take a picture of the Fox News tractor trailer parked outside the Scranton Cultural Center on March 4., the day before President Trump made his first visit of 2020 to the battleground state of Pennsylvania, for a Fox News town hall-style event at the former Masonic Temple and Scottish Rite Cathedral.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
    by Will Bunch | Columnist
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