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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 03:54 PM Oct 2020

Election tide turns strongly against Trump in new poll

https://www.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-the-tide-turns-against-trump-as-biden-surges-to-his-largestever-lead-among-likely-voters-175644323.html

With only two weeks left until Election Day, Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump has widened to 11 percentage points — Biden’s biggest margin among likely voters in any Yahoo News/YouGov poll to date.

The survey, which was conducted from Oct. 16 to 18, shows that a majority of likely voters (51 percent) now say they are voting for the Democratic nominee, while just 40 percent say they are voting for Trump. Biden’s lead, which is identical among registered voters, has grown by 3 points since last week’s Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The president has struggled to rebound over the past three weeks from a widely panned first debate performance and a COVID-19 outbreak that sent him to the hospital and sickened others in and around the White House. Yet the main reason Trump appears to have fallen even further behind Biden in recent days is that coronavirus cases are peaking just as the campaign is coming to a close. On Friday, new daily cases cleared 70,000 nationwide for the first time since July; hospitalizations are increasing in 39 states, and are at or near their all-time peak in 16 states.

Trump vented his frustration with the coronavirus on a campaign call Monday, saying, “People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies. People are saying, ‘Whatever. Just leave us alone.’ They’re tired of it. People are tired of hearing [Anthony] Fauci and all these idiots.”
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Election tide turns strongly against Trump in new poll (Original Post) Binkie The Clown Oct 2020 OP
Trump's wrong. WE'RE TIRED OF HEARING HIM BABBLE ON AND ON. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2020 #1
We're Tired Of His Cult, Too ProfessorGAC Oct 2020 #4
How much I hope you're right, my dear ProfessorGAC! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2020 #7
I think basically his cult are cowards. LakeArenal Oct 2020 #10
I don't doubt that people ARE tired of CoViD - soldierant Oct 2020 #19
The lead is growing Johnny2X2X Oct 2020 #2
Really. I heard this chorus too, 'oh, the race is tightening, etc.!' and it's turned out to be BS. SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #13
Trump ought to see a doctor about his jaw hitting the floor from seeing all the bad news! dubyadiprecession Oct 2020 #3
His staff doesn't tell him bad news gratuitous Oct 2020 #20
I pray this is true.....I JUST WANT HIM GONE. a kennedy Oct 2020 #5
I remember how much we all hated George Bush and think back on those as... Binkie The Clown Oct 2020 #9
Most of us a tired of hearing something and it is HIM. Newest Reality Oct 2020 #6
K & R IllinoisBirdWatcher Oct 2020 #8
Scientists are idiots, according to Trump. When will he ask if it is possible that he is the idiot? Doodley Oct 2020 #11
The last block of voters, the so-called "undecideds" are beginning to fall away. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2020 #12
Or not vote at all zipplewrath Oct 2020 #16
"People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies." lagomorph777 Oct 2020 #14
A blue riptide is gonna suck him out to sea Blue Owl Oct 2020 #15
If this election is fair and Trump does not cheat and wins, Mr.Bill Oct 2020 #17
Not to mention the end of civilization as we know it. nt Binkie The Clown Oct 2020 #18

ProfessorGAC

(64,951 posts)
4. We're Tired Of His Cult, Too
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 03:59 PM
Oct 2020

A beat down in the election will get vast majority to slither back under their rocks.

soldierant

(6,836 posts)
19. I don't doubt that people ARE tired of CoViD -
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 06:47 PM
Oct 2020

and I am BEYOND TIRED of Trump*

But, you know, no matter how tired one gets of something or someone, that alone doesn't make it go away.

Johnny2X2X

(19,001 posts)
2. The lead is growing
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 03:58 PM
Oct 2020

So great not to hear a chorus of "the race is tightening" from the nightly news.

The race is not tightening, the lead has been over 10 for a week and half and is pushing 11 now.

SWBTATTReg

(22,093 posts)
13. Really. I heard this chorus too, 'oh, the race is tightening, etc.!' and it's turned out to be BS.
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:27 PM
Oct 2020

If anything, the race is widening (Biden's lead). Our moronic PINO is truly effective, isn't he?!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
20. His staff doesn't tell him bad news
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 06:51 PM
Oct 2020

They treat him like a particularly spoiled toddler, keeping all the bad news away from him.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
9. I remember how much we all hated George Bush and think back on those as...
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:03 PM
Oct 2020

...the good old days.

We had no idea how much worse a president could be. To call him the worst president in history is putting it mildly.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
6. Most of us a tired of hearing something and it is HIM.
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:00 PM
Oct 2020

I mean, enough! It is really getting exhausting. He is a pox on our nation.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,393 posts)
12. The last block of voters, the so-called "undecideds" are beginning to fall away.
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:22 PM
Oct 2020

These people are mainly interested in being aligned with the "winner". So, as election day approaches, they will break for Biden. IMHO.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
16. Or not vote at all
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:45 PM
Oct 2020

Which may be just as useful. Once you've hit 51 percent, nonvoters mostly hurt the other guy.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
14. "People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies."
Mon Oct 19, 2020, 04:29 PM
Oct 2020

Do ya think there might be a correlation, asshole? This will be remembered as the Plague of Trump. Forever and ever.

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