While Democrats are still waiting for Bernie Sanders to give up and the ones in Congress are doing a stimulus bill?
Donald Trump & Co. ARE working hard on the November election ….
Joe Biden being nearly invisible IS being taken advantage of….
And virus or not?
Donald Trump’s polling numbers have risen in the last week….
The campaign rallies are a distant memory. The final chapter of the primary calendar is awash in uncertainty. The summer political conventions are in doubt.
Yet it would be a mistake to think the 2020 presidential race is on hold. In fact, it’s unfolding right before our eyes.
For President Donald Trump, the power and the perils of incumbency are on full display as he seeks to steer the nation through a never-before-seen moment in modern America. He’s cast himself as a wartime president, even as he sends conflicting signals on whether his bigger priority is ending the pandemic or restarting the US economy, both of which will now undoubtedly influence his re-election.
“It’s hard not to be happy with the job we’re doing, that I can tell you,” Trump said Wednesday in the White House briefing room, where he stands before dinnertime most every night to deliver a rosy assessment of the crisis that seldom mentions the rising US death toll, overwhelmed hospitals and cries for help from doctors, nurses and local leaders.
Seven months before Election Day, the President is working overtime to build a glowing narrative about his administration’s coronavirus response.
His rally-like rhetoric from the White House may be paying dividends — for now, at least — as three polls this week show more Americans view Trump’s handling of the crisis through a positive light than a negative one. His approval rating has ticked up.
It’s an open question whether those early reviews represent more of a rallying effect, which presidents often experience during times of national emergency, or if the support will endure after the true scope of the deadly outbreak is fully known.
Joe Biden and his advisers are racing to compete with Trump’s megaphone and his often self-congratulatory version of events, which routinely clash with the truth. The Biden team is working to adapt to the new realities of a campaign playing out in a nation under quarantine, isolation and fear.
“I don’t care whether the president’s numbers are going up and down,” Biden said Wednesday. “I know, along with anybody else who’s ever dealt with these kinds of things, like we did in our administration, that time is of the essence. Time is of the essence.”….
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