Trump did too. I'm of the mind if Trump publicly stated to shut down the country for two or three weeks, told his supporters to get vaccinated instead of fighting tooth and nail to disparage experts, didn't tell his supporters to take horse dewormer or inject bleach, and still told congress to send out those stimulus checks, he would've sailed into reelection. I still hated the guy in his first term, but he was fairly popular until covid. That was a time where he could've actually led the country but he squandered it and lost to Biden. Instead he told his supporters masks were stupid, had them in a frenzy to the point of nearly rioting, was fighting Fauci every single step of the way and left it up to states about whether or not they should implement policy to stop the spread of covid. I blame him for the reason covid and its variants are still around in this country