“I hope that our governor’s right, and I hope the president’s right,” State Representative Ron Stephens, a Savannah Republican, said on Thursday. “Actually both of them are right in that we’ve
got to get the economy going. I just don’t know the timing of it.”
Reporting was contributed by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin from Washington, Patricia Mazzei from Miami, and Vanessa Swales from New York.