CBS News is reporting that Joe Biden is inching up and passing Donald Trump in battle ground states that Trump should have on his side less than 4 months out from Election Day …
Polling is showing Biden neck and neck with Trump in Texas and ahead by more than margin of error in Florida…
Trump has to have seen these polls and it would appear is reacting to them…
He wore a mask yesterday in public…
And he’s talking about a slight about face and loosening his push against his anti- immigration policies…
Hmmmmm?
Biden’s people shouldn’t be too much ahead of themselves…
Even with the nation’s economy moving downward and record jobless numbers?
Trump gets higher marks then Biden on the economy…
Trump voters , even with the virus outbreaks, aren’t much concerned about it as Democrats…
The coronavirus outbreak is reshaping the presidential race in three key Sun Belt states. Joe Biden is now leadingPresident Trump by six points in Florida, and the two are tied in Arizona and competitive in Texas, where Biden is down by just a point to Mr. Trump. Biden has made gains in part because most say their state’s efforts to contain the virus are going badly — and the more concerned voters are about risks from the outbreak, the more likely they are to support Biden.
In all three states, most voters say their state reopened too soon, and those who say this feel their state went too fast under pressure from the Trump administration. Most also say the president is doing a bad job handling the outbreak. He may be paying a price for that, at least in the short term.
This is helping Biden not only to post bigger gains with groups that already trend Democratic — like women and younger voters — but also to cut into Mr. Trump’s margins with seniors. Seniors who are very concerned about coronavirus back Biden in large numbers.
Though embattled in three states he won in 2016, the president remains bolstered by enthusiastic support from his base; by the belief that his policies are a little more likely to help the economy recover than hinder it; and by the fact that the economy still outranks coronavirus as a top issue, in part because Republicans express much less concern about the virus, while both parties agree on the importance of the economy…
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Republicans and Trump voters in these states don’t think the outbreak rises to the level of a crisis — they’re three times less likely than Democrats to call it one — but rather tend to describe it as a serious problem. Most say efforts to contain the outbreak in their state are going at least somewhat well, and most don’t say their state reopened too quickly.
Voters backing Mr. Trump in these states cite the economy as a major factor in their vote, far ahead of the coronavirus.
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Aside from the economy, Trump supporters cite the recent protests as another major factor in their vote — more often than they cite the coronavirus. And unlike voters overall, most Trump voters say they disagree with the ideas expressed by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Across these states, there is a division on what should happen to Confederate statues and symbols in public places. A majority of Republicans and most Trump supporters, along with independents, think they should remain. Most Democrats and Biden backers think the statues and symbols should be removed…
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Trump approval among Republicans in these state’s, in these CBS poll ‘s , is below the general 85-90% we’ve seen in most national polls….