"Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side": New Poll Shows Trump's Black Lives Matter Protest...

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“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump’s Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/polling-trumps-protest-response-could-cost-him-2020/amp

If Donald Trump loses in the fall, the first week of June might have marked the beginning of the end. On June 1, with the country consumed by historic protests against racism and police brutality, some of them violent, Trump decided to position himself as the “law-and-order” president, made clear by his tweets and his now infamous march that evening across Lafayette Square, outside the White House. His path cleared by the National Guard and D.C. police who used chemical agents on lawfully assembled protesters and roughed up journalists, Trump walked across the street to stand in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church for an inscrutable and buffoonish photo op, in which he held up a Bible and said nothing much at all about the cities on fire and the country’s dismal legacy of racism. “We have a great country,” Trump said. “That’s my thoughts.” The moment was an emblem of Trump’s presidency: attention-seeking, bereft of empathy, gut over strategy. It was so embarrassing and borderline anti-American that one of his generals, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley, apologized for participating in the walk and reportedly considered resigning. Like so many of Trump’s decisions, it was a sugar-high tactic designed to please his base and get TV ratings, with almost no thought about the larger sweep of American history, let alone his reelection campaign.

Politically, it was a disaster. In the days that followed, Trump’s approval ratings tumbled to their lowest point in over a year, and their lowest point of the coronavirus pandemic, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker. The first two weeks of June also saw Trump fall even further behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. Before June, Biden steadily held a four-to-six-point lead over Trump in national polls, fueled in part by massive support among the independent voters whom Trump won in 2016. Shortly after Lafayette Square, though, Biden began to open up an even bigger lead, a nine-point average lead over the president, with a Washington Post–ABC News poll this week showing Biden winning by as many as 15 points.

Trump’s reaction to the protests was not the only reason for his summer collapse. Most pollsters say that Trump’s continuing inability to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, and the economic havoc that’s come with it, has been the dominant factor. And last week, for the first time, polls began to show Biden beating Trump on the question of who would best handle the economy, the only decent card left in Trump’s deck. But if Trump loses in November, the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that erupted in early June have to be seen as a significant breaking point. Not just because they threw an exhausted nation into even more chaos, and not just because they forced Trump into the most astoundingly dumb photo op in presidential history, surpassing George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished!” blunder. In fact, new polling and research provided to Vanity Fair suggests that the protests themselves changed America’s opinions about race so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump unknowingly planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Reality TV star finally meets REALITY.....

For every season under the heavens, there is a time....and it is time for Trump to GO. And take his Republican enablers with him.

[Blue Owl]

2. Another one to file under "Hey Donny How'd That Work Out For Ya?"

Aww, looks llke it backfired in yo' face...


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[Cha]

7. trump begs for BLOWBACK!

[cayugafalls]

3. I have to believe that the protests gave trump the excuse he needed to expose

his ultimate fascist and authoritarian goals prematurely. I was afraid that he would lay low waiting until his next term before showing the world what he was truly capable of against his own people. We all knew he was a wannabe dictator, but he held back from going full blown, out in the streets, jackbooted thugs, until the protests.

I'm not saying I want him to do this, but I am glad he exposed himself for what he truly is, an evil dictator. Every day he sinks lower and exposes himself more and more.

May he continue to decline, at this point, I don't think he can help himself.

[JonLP24]

4. So much for 1968 comparisons

[Cha]

5. Exactly & a whole bunch of other innumerable Shit!

Can't forget trump's a Sociopathic Psychotic LYING PERVERTED BEAN Hawker.

"Bible's" Not a Prop, Assface. Wonder which psychotic "advisor" told trump to march across the square like a GD Gestapo Bully and swing the Bible in the air?

[smirkymonkey]

6. I really hope that this is the beginning of the end for him.

I, and I imagine that millions of others, am completely exhausted from the constant anxiety, drama, cruelty and erosion of our civil rights. I just can't take much more of it. Every fucking day there is a fresh, new hell.

I miss the calm, peaceful days of Obama/Biden where I rarely gave a thought to what was going on in national politics except for when the republicans were actively trying to thwart his efforts every step of the way. But he never burdened us with his problems. He dealt with his trials and difficulties like a hero and a man. He wasn't a whiney little toddler who needed constant attention and incessant reassurance that he was the biggest, the best, the greatest.

I read somewhere recently that malignant narcissists are also referred to as "energy vampires" and that is exactly a perfect description of Trump. I feel like he has just sucked the life out of most of us with his constant drama, neediness, whining, lying, gaslighting, cruelty, hatemongering and general depravity. All I know is that I am tired. I want this to end. I feel like I have been sucked into a relationship that I did not choose to be in because he is everywhere all the time and there is no avoiding him unless you completely blackout the outside world.

[C Moon]

8. I wish COVID-19 would be the beginning of the end for him...a long and sufferable end.

[mr_lebowski]

9. [phone] couldn't have said it better myself SM ... (nt)