Democrats don’t….
A new CBS/YouGov poll asked Democrats who they trust for information on the coronavirus pandemic. Their answers are instructive: the CDC 87%, your governor 75%, the media 72%, friends and family 72%, religious leaders 44%, President Trump 14%.
Compare that to the answers of Republicans: President Trump 90%, the CDC 84%, friends and family 81%, religious leaders 71%, your governor 65%, the media 13%.
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After three-plus years of consistently negative approval ratings, President Donald Trump is getting better marks for his handling of the still-fledgling coronavirus outbreak ravaging the nation.
But Trump’s higher job ratings from Americans are just relative: Voters are still mostly split on how he’s handling the pandemic, and the past two weeks have brought only a modest bump in his overall approval numbers, which still show more Americans disapprove of his performance as president than approve.
In a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, a quarter of voters surveyed said Trump is doing an “excellent” job handling the virus, and another 17 percent said he is doing a “good” job. But almost as many, 39 percent, said he’s doing a “poor” job, and 13 percent rate his handling of the crisis as “just fair.”
Those numbers are statistically unchanged from last week’s survey and match the results of other public polls, which show Americans divided along partisan lines in judging Trump’s handling of the virus.
The latest poll numbers come at a pivot point for Trump, who is considering loosening some of the constraints placed on American’s public and economic lives to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus — even as public-health officials warn that the U.S. is falling behind in its containment efforts despite the actions already taken. Meanwhile, Americans are growing more supportive of aggressive containment measures like quarantines…
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Now Trump is looking at classifying counties as “high risk, medium risk, and low risk” and asking governors to relax social distancing and business closures in the medium and low risk areas.
Which just means people will cross county lines to go to bars, restaurants, etc and bring it back–thus making every county high risk in not time!
More winning!
Will Republicans tell Trump to pound sand on this?
I’ll post that….
Seems to be a concession to the abuse he’s getting on a OVERALL relaxing the CDC virus policies….
I thought that is how they would do it…
Again?
The ball will be the states’s court’s
And Trump ?
As usual want’s no responsibly…
The Governors/Mayors/County Executives are not going to budge. He will try to blame them for an economic downturn.
Exactly
Agreed….
NY numbers ARE gonna peak and the other’s are gonna be climbing just when Trump does his thing…
He can try, But the President gets the credit or blame for the economy being good or bad.
Maybe….
Yes everything in life is
“Maybe”
Since you felt moved to comment on Scott’s recitation of the historical fact, why not “enlighten” us with your knowledge of this matter that elicited your uh “response.”
A FOX News poll shows that by a 53-34% margin Americans think Trump should have acted sooner on Coronavirus.
He SHOULD HAVE….
He isn’t doing as much as he should now…
And won’t in the end and will crow that he DID do the right thing…
THAT IS who he is….
NOT the leader for anyone but Donald Trump and his poll numbers have climbed on this…
Go figure?
His poll numbers have climbed for two reason.
1. There’s always a “rally round the flag” in the first days or weeks of a crisis. GW Bush and Jimmy Carter jumped 30% in the first days after 9-11 and the Iran Hostage crisis respectively. Trump’s 5% or so increase is pretty anemic.
2. Most of the country has not seen anywhere near the worst of this. When they do and all Trump does is try to blame others those who thought he should have acted sooner but “approve” of him because they think it is the right thing to do will melt away.
Simple…
Americans always rally around the President in times of crisis.Theres really no surprise at that.
What is Remarkable really is that his approval isn’t much higher.
In other crisis Presidents approvals have skyrocketed.Trumps has only improved about five points.His disapprovals are still over 50%.
We also in other crisis have seen that approval start to slowly decline the longer that crisis lasts.Americans are impatient.They want instant gratification and they want things resolved quickly.
This isn’t going to resolve quickly and as it continues to play out they will lash out in frustration at the President.It always happens.
Further, it probably wouldn’t matter, even if Trump was doing a good job ,which he isn’t.He would still suffer from people wanting the crisis to pass more quickly.
Very true. And unlike 9-11 there isn’t anyone we can bomb or invade with a pandemic. Maybe Trump is thinking people will grow frustrated with the shut downs and think he is the one fighting to reopen and get back to normal ,
Problem with that is about the time Trump wants everything to reopen we are likely to see the epidemic really hit more widespread. As Bill Gates said the other day–how are we going to expect consumers to just ignore the overflowing hospitals and dead bodies piling up?