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Trumps erratic handling of the coronavirus outbreak, the worsening economy and a cascade of ominous public and private polling have Republicans increasingly nervous that they are at risk of losing the presidency and the Senate if Mr. Trump does not put the nation on a radically improved course.
The scale of the G.O.P.s challenge has crystallized in the last week. With 26 million Americans now having filed for unemployment benefits, Mr. Trumps standing in states that he carried in 2016 looks increasingly wobbly: New surveys show him trailing significantly in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, and he is even narrowly behind in must-win Florida.
Perhaps most significantly, Mr. Trumps single best advantage as an incumbent his access to the bully pulpit has effectively become a platform for self-sabotage.
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wryter2000
(46,099 posts)At this point, no one could pull that off before November.
Faux pas
(14,698 posts)And gigantic shout out to the universe to help make it so.
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)Sick of those two Republican Senators from each red state sucking at the teat and being ungrateful.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)staying in power - senate.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)The hate and willful ignorance in this country is 10x worse than I thought?
The distrust sown for Democrats by Republicans is the overblown insanity if anything is?
The Republicans to Democrats just looks like insanely selfish jackasses?
Grins
(7,239 posts)BComplex
(8,073 posts)This is my wish.
pandr32
(11,631 posts)Blue Owl
(50,531 posts)n/t
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Trump was fine and dandy when they were participating in the "grab and dash". Now that they're likely to be held accountable they're all scared.