Amid 10-20% unemployment and negative gdp.
No, they don’t.
People say things like this and it’s objectively factually wrong. More people voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. More people voted for Al Gore than George W. Bush. Republicans win elections but they don’t do it by having popular support.
If the people got to choose who was President, we wouldn’t have had a Republican in the White House since Reagan was in office.
But we have, haven’t we? Which makes YOU the one who are “factually wrong.”
I would argue that with the kinds of people the Republicans have put up for Prez since 1968 that Democrats should be on a 50+ year “winning streak” in that regard. But they’re not. If you have good reasons for that, please submit them for further scrutiny instead of merely “standing on the sidelines” and criticizing. Until then I hold to my position on this whether YOU like it or not.
You are not addressing the fact that IIAD it matters but IIAR it doesn’t. There are structural and educational problems to address.
My guess is that it will depend on the death toll, The USA has the largest number of cases of any country, but fewer deaths so far - Spain and Italy are the worst hit and still going. However, if the death toll climbs dramatically then Trump will be seen as having mismanaged the crisis and will lose support in the election.
But 2016 came down to one thing; Clinton was actively disliked by many, including Democrats, so they either refrained from voting or voted for Trump, not expecting him to get in. A bland Democratic candidate does not have that disadvantage. That said, why is Biden the best that they can do?
Saw a news report today saying that Andrew Cuomo of NY would be a great candidate if only he was willing to run.
Now we can only wait and see whether this ends up as a repeat of the “Spanish 'flu” with a massive death toll, or a big scare like the swine fever. I just wonder how long it will last, how many it will kill, and how long it will take to get back to normal afterwards. Lots of businesses will not survive this.
Any other president would probably be at much higher approval ratings right now. His bump is extremely modest for a crisis situation. Not that I don’t think he will beat Biden, I do.
He’s already mismanaged it by turfing your government’s pandemic response time and allocating medical resources to various states based on how much he thinks they like him. Arguing that this isn’t gross mismanagement is a tough row to hoe.
Is FOX covering this “mismanagement,” or are they painting him as a brilliant savior? Let me guess…
Yes, he’s very popular now. But if you live in New York you probably would rather see Chris Cuomo as the candidate even if you’re a life-long Democrat. Andrew is a bully, almost as much as Trump. He doesn’t work well with others and his basic morality is similarly questionable. He shut down an ethics commission while it was investigating people close to him. His record of accomplishment is spotty.
He’s great in an emergency where all he does is bark orders. As a day-to-day leader he’s iffy at best.
It goes without saying that he’s miles better than any possible Republican but that’s a ridiculously low bar.
Remember that Giuliani was pretty popular right after 9/11, too. :rolleyes:
I’ll never understand why. He didn’t do anything that anybody else wouldn’t have done.
Yes, Republicans have won elections. But they did it by manipulating the system not by “resonating with the voters”.
We need to see this truth so we can focus on the real problem and apply the right solution. We need to fix the election system to restore democracy to it. We don’t need to fix the Democratic party.
The parents that will be lost by what their babies brought back don’t live in Florida, nor do their babies. They won’t give a rat’s ass about the Governor Florida and even if they do, they can’t vote in Florida. If you’re implying that they will hold entire Republican party and Trump, specifically, responsible for what happened in Florida, I disagree.
I think it was Biden who said all Giuliani said was a noun, a verb and 9/11. Great comment. I think that was when Rudy ran for president.
Trump said he could kill one person in the middle of New York City and nobody would care. But we’ll see if he can kill ten thousand people in New York City and get away with it.
Yeah, but it’s the right answer.
Well said… sadly i think i know the answer. 
For many Republicans, and most Trumpists, killing a New Yorker or a few thousand is a feature, not a bug. Not real Americans, you know. :rolleyes:
I’m going to trump Georgia House Speaker David Ralston with Trump.
On Fox and Friends he said, out loud, about the funding package “that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options”:
Game’s over, right-wingers. You can never hoist the flag of voting security again. There’s only one reason for their efforts and it’s voter suppression.
Will that be sufficient to get Trump re-elected? Right now all bets are off. Anything is possible in a world turned upside-down. I’m done speculating.