Look in the mirror to see how this became a partisan issue. The president made absolutely no partisan statements when mentioning his hope for the drug. It was those looking through dirt colored glasses that took things down that path.
It's hard to see the president's statements as anything but an effort to promote himself by tying himself to this treatment. It should be non-partisan.
Previous administrations didn't try to set up "I win" scenarios in times of crisis. We need to be able to evaluate the treatment without it being clouded by the issue of whether one side or the other was right.
The UK government is led by a right wing populist by all accounts and this is what our daily breifing had to say on the matter "And in our determination to prevent as many patients as possible seeing their condition worsen we are conducting rapid clinical trials on those drugs, including anti-malarials, which may be able to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on those affected."
Contrast that with Trump's statements (by Twitter of course): "HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)....."
If you can't see why there is a problem with the way Trump has spoken about these drugs then I'm afraid I've lost all hope.
I'd say that's a pretty damn partisan statement from our Commander in Grief.