Coronavirus will finish Trump's presidency

[Velocity]

Ah yes. Doesn’t matter if it’s increasing coronavirus infections or decreasing poll numbers, it must always be someone else’s fault.

[Boycott]

That story sounds too good to be true.

[SlackerInc]

Right?

[Sage_Rat]

@Boycott

That story sounds too good to be true.

Many stories come directly from Team Trump, trying to project how tough he is on people and to try and scare his side into coming out to vote.

The whole story about Trump yelling at Boris Johnson, for example, was purely pro-Trump propaganda that they successfully foisted onto CNN. Both before and after, Trump was bending over backwards to let Huawei go free.

Whether this one is in that bucket or not, I couldn’t say, but it’s suspicious that you would have a leak by three people at the core of the Trump campaign strategizing group.

[ThelmaLou]

This made me happy.

New polling shows warning signs for GOP-held Senate seats

A raft of new polls from states with competitive Senate races shows momentum veering away from Republican incumbents at a time when doubts are also growing about President Trump’s re-election prospects.

The big picture: To win control of the Senate, Democrats likely will have to flip five of eight competitive seats with a Republican incumbent. Of the six races with recent polling, Democrats lead in five and trail by just one point in the other.
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There’s a bit more info at the non-paywalled link.

This is now my favorite picture of that hateful Mitch McConnell. [del]If[/del] When he gets voted out, it needs to go on a t-shirt with the caption, “Wha’ happened??”

Damn, he is one ugly bastard, inside and out.

[SlackerInc]

Good stuff!

[Sdowiat]

A quote by Rahm Emanuel

[ThelmaLou]

Reasons why some Iowa voters plan to vote for DJT again.

Focus group: Why the coronavirus is keeping some Iowans with Trump

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There’s a sense among these voters that Trump is managing about as well as any other president would.
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[li]“I can’t blame him. He was listening to leaders and advisers and he was making the best decision he knew at that point,” said Teresa J. “To blame him serves no purpose. He did what he felt was best with the information available.”[/li][li] “I’d like to see Trump have another run at it,” she added. Teresa did say she wishes Trump would have “encouraged states to shut down and get a handle on this” sooner.[/li][li] Even when confronted with the unemployment numbers — over 36 million have filed jobless claims in the past two months — and the declining economy, these voters feel Trump isn’t responsible.[/li][li] “You can’t blame Trump for the unemployment rate because of the COVID-19. You can’t blame him for the COVID-19,” said Joe W. “I’m still a supporter and I feel like Trump can put us back to where we need to be.”[/li]…[/ul]

This was only one focus group, but it gives you an idea of how someone can rationalize voting for him again. They realize that he’s presiding ineptly over a mess but figure it’s not his fault and that no one else would do any better.

The people in this particular group did not watch national news, but got their news from local sources and from their governor. Most of them didn’t know one single thing about Biden and had never heard a word out of him. I presume this also means they aren’t aware of world news and how other countries have handled the CV crisis better.

This comment blows my mind: “I’d like to see Trump have another run at it…” Yeah, let’s give the captain who sank the ship another ship and see how he does. :smack:

Voters who think like this can definitely get him re-elected.

[Si_Amigo]

What a long strange trip its been.

The day this thread started was the day my company in Michigan sent us to work from home (still not back). Kudos to the OP for calling it.

It may not have been the sole reason but it allowed people who normally would have been too busy at work to follow and understand the George Floyd situation and the BLM movement and many other issues.