I was looking at this ABC article you posted from 2022.

At the high end, the death rate (200 deaths/100,000) is 0.2%.  Looks like the regular flu kills approximately 1/10 that each year according to the CDC.  Eyeballing it, the same states tend to rank higher for flu-related deaths too.

In the election interference case the SCOTUS ruling made them remove Bill Barr's testimony.

The fact that the "official act" was Trump telling Barr to say there was widespread voter fraud and that they ( Trump

s team ) would then go "find" the fraud is ridiculous.

Were there a midterm election coming, then, maybe.  And that's a highly, highly provisional maybe, based on what's already proven to be a Congressional GOP that's wholly spineless when not actively craven.

But we're in the honeymoon period and Trump already is making Congress dance to get all his appointments through like lightning-powered greased pigs.  Gaetz is almost a 100% lock, barring some highly unlikely 11th hour act of God.

Don't really know.  If I were to guess, possibly rural poor with worse health care access?  

My primary interest for picking at the number was to understand how much worse COVID ended up being than influenza.