"so Democrats and the media (and?) can run against him on it."

Here is another succinct report from Ace of Spades:

Andrew Cuomo: There Were Zero New Cases of Coronavirus In All of New York State
—Ace
Which is why, of course, he says we have to keep the entire country on lockdown.

And not to just take a contrary position to Trump's so Democrats and the media (and?) can run against him on it.