If Trump told his supporters that they should get vaccinated, would hesitancy drop?

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Hard to say.

[DrScholl]

As far gone as they are they would probably believe that "The Deep State" threatened him to say it against his will.

[lfromnj]

Pretty sure he already did?

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-03-17/trump-tells-followers-to-get-vaccinated-against-coronavirus

[ProudModerate2]

Yes.
Maybe not dramatically, but yes.

[7,052,770]

Like if he said it loudly and often, and cut an ad that ran a lot?

Yeah, probably. It couldn't just be a brief one-liner though.

[Bootes Void]

He already has

[DaleCooper]

No. The conspiracy-mongering is bigger than Trump. He and conservative media have some influence over it, but ultimately they lose a lot of power the second they stop telling right-wingers what they want to hear. If Trump started forcefully pushing in favor of the vaccine, his support among conspiracy-minded conservatives would drop.

[THG]

He already did. As has literally every prominent Republican politician you can name.

Liberals ganging up on conservatives to irrationally blame them for every conspiracy theory need to understand that drivel like anti-vax conspiracies have been around for a long period of time, and that they exceed partisan politics.

[7,052,770]

LOL at the people who think a mixed-message offhand remark counts for anything. Trump could save tens of thousands of Republican lives by cutting an ad and playing it a lot, but obviously he doesn't care to do that.

[Nyvin]

He already encouraged them to get the vaccine.

The problem is that the notion of the virus being overblown not threatening has already embedded itself in right wing media and that's extremely hard to dislodge since there's so little fact checking out there.   It's not what's being said "now" by Republicans that matters, it's what they said last year when all this was starting.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

It's not enough to ask him to promote it. You need to allow him to sell it for $99.99 on cable television with some hogwash about its "patented space-age formula." You need to allow him to make hyperbolic claims about it being the finest vaccine, very special, tremendous, "many people are saying that it will cure most anything." You need to allow him to take his a percentage and cut it with other chemicals (caffeine and goodness-only-knows-what for the "trademark kick"). You need to get him peddling fake boosters in six months that cost twice as much.

Someone suggested that it would have been good if Fauci had said you should get Pfizer and Trump & FOX promoted Moderna instead.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

He already did. As has literally every prominent Republican politician you can name.

Liberals ganging up on conservatives to irrationally blame them for every conspiracy theory need to understand that drivel like anti-vax conspiracies have been around for a long period of time, and that they exceed partisan politics.

There's a difference between Republicans endorsing something in good faith (as if they were capable of such a thing as good faith) and talking out of both sides of their mouths.
How Republican Vaccine Opposition Got to This Point

After Sherri Tenpenny, a Cleveland-area doctor, falsely suggested during a hearing last month in the Ohio House of Representatives that Covid vaccines left people “magnetized” and could “interface” with 5G cellular towers, Republican lawmakers thanked her for her “enlightening” testimony.

In Congress, Republicans who once praised the Trump administration for its work facilitating the swift development of the vaccines now wage campaigns of vaccine misinformation, sowing doubts about safety and effectiveness from the Capitol.

And this week, Republican state lawmakers in Tennessee successfully pressured health officials to stop outreach to children for all vaccines. The guidance prohibits sending reminders about the second dose of a Covid vaccine to adolescents who had received one s

The GOP isn't a political party, it's a death cult.

[Mail-order President]

He already did. As has literally every prominent Republican politician you can name.

Liberals ganging up on conservatives to irrationally blame them for every conspiracy theory need to understand that drivel like anti-vax conspiracies have been around for a long period of time, and that they exceed partisan politics.

Lefties don't know because they never look at anything outside their partisan bubble and CNN/MSDNC didn't talk about it.