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An Oklahoma man recently dismissed former President Donald Trump asking supporters to get a COVID-19 vaccine, stating that he wouldn’t listen to him because Trump is a “liberal New Yorker.”
CNN reporter Gary Tuchman recently traveled to Boise City, Oklahoma, to ask individuals about their willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, many of whom said they don’t plan to get it.
While speaking to a group of men at diner in Boise City, Tuchman asked if they plan to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, in response one man said, “I’m just not. I’m not going to take it.”
Tuchman then pressed the group of men again and asked if their views would change if Trump came out “and was very robust” in urging his supporters to receive a vaccine.
In response to Tuchman’s question, another man seated at the table sat up and said, “Trump is a liberal New Yorker. Why would we listen to him either?” When asked if he voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the man said, “He was the best option.”
As Tuchman noted while speaking to the men, Trump previously told his supporters to get a COVID-19 vaccine during a recent interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Primetime.
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“I would recommend it, and I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it—and a lot of those people voted for me frankly,” Trump said during the interview. “It is a safe vaccine, and it is something that works.”
A recent poll conducted by NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist found 47 percent of those who voted for Trump in the 2020 election don’t plan on receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as 41 percent of Republican voters.
Several other individuals Tuchman spoke to at the diner also said that they don’t plan on receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
“No sir,” one man said when asked if he plans to get the vaccine. “I don’t trust the government and I don’t trust [President Joe] Biden.”
While it is unclear if these individuals lived in Boise City or voted for Trump in the 2020 election, 92 percent of votes in Cimarron County, where the city is located, were cast for Trump.
When another couple was asked about the vaccine, they alluded to the flu vaccine and the man who was identified as Chad Hughes said, “When I take the flu shot, I usually get the flu, so there’s no reason to take it.”
Two other sisters that Tuchman spoke to also pointed to the flu vaccine as a reason why they don’t want to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Well you claim the flu can be cured, and yet hundreds of thousands of people die from the flu,” one of the girls said in the video.
Newsweek reached out to the Oklahoma Department of Health for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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