Within a counterfactual analysis, it could be concluded that “Trump would have kept the presidency with 21% fewer cases.” The authors also determined that the election outcome had a weaker association with the death toll, whereby most of the analysis failed to reach statistical significance when utilizing deaths rather than cases as the independent variable.
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Quantifying the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.
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