They spread crazy lies about COVID vaccines once those became generally available. Pew Research Center compared the 20 percent of the U.S. population who lived in the country’s most pro-Trump counties with the 20 percent who lived in the most pro-Biden counties. The most pro-Trump counties suffered nearly 70,000 more COVID deaths than the most pro-Biden counties did. THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER? The fact that they’re a 501(c)3 non-profit doesn’t really change the reality that Pew Research began as a polling operation, founded by the former president of Gallup.