Most Michiganders unsympathetic to Trump catching COVID-19, poll says

[marmar]

(Detroit Free Press) A new Free Press poll shows that three out of five Michiganders surveyed are unsympathetic to President Donald Trump contracting coronavirus, believing he brought it on himself.

That includes more than a quarter of Trump's own supporters in Michigan.

"When you look at the reaction on his COVID illness ... it's a striking result," said Bernie Porn, pollster for EPIC-MRA of Lansing, which conducted the survey for the Free Press and its outstate partners between last Thursday and this Monday. "It just shows he's going to have a difficult time getting people to like him better."

The overall poll shows Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading Trump, 48%-39%, in Michigan with three weeks to go in the race, 4% supporting a third party candidate and 9% undecided. And though respondents selected from a list of top issues concerning them, the top two selected were reopening schools and the economy, which was picked by 23% of those surveyed, and responding to the public health crisis posed by the virus, picked by 21%. ...........(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/15/free-press-poll-trump-catching-covid/3646165001/

[roamer65]

1. Trump will not win MI.

It’s now only how large the mandate is for Biden.