'They are angry': Pandemic and economic collapse slam Trump across Rust Belt

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'They are angry': Pandemic and economic collapse slam Trump across Rust Belt

Coronavirus infections and unemployment filings are spiraling in parts of the industrial Midwest where Donald Trump cleaned up in 2016.
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO, MEGAN CASSELLA and NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
05/14/2020 06:50 PM EDT
Updated: 05/14/2020 08:44 PM EDT


The Industrial Midwest was always going to be a battleground in November.

The region is now becoming a new front line for Americans’ lives and livelihoods as coronavirus hot spots proliferate and jobless rates spiral. The confluence of a ferocious pandemic, deepening economic turmoil and rising political tensions is more pronounced here than anywhere else in the country. And it sets the stage for a combustible campaign season that is testing President Donald Trump’s efforts to move on and insulate himself from the crisis—and Joe Biden’s ability to blame him for the fallout.

On Thursday, Trump ventured to a swing county in Pennsylvania, stopping off at a Lehigh Valley medical equipment distributor where he used an official speech to mock “Sleepy Joe,” chastise governors for moving too slowly to reopen and assail the news media as a “disaster” while touting American workers.

“I say it’s the ‘transition to greatness.’ The transition is the third quarter," Trump said. "The fourth quarter is going to do very well. And next year is going to be through the roof.”

The numbers and interviews, however, paint a much grimmer picture. The virus has moved from urban centers like Detroit and Chicago into suburbs and more sparsely populated counties, a trend seen from western Pennsylvania to Minnesota and Iowa. In Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania—Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall”—19 counties report coronavirus cases doubling in less than 14 days. Trump won all but one of those counties, by an average of 65 percent.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/coronavirus-economic-collapse-rust-belt-trump-259657

[Squinch]

1. NOW they're angry. SMH.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I know, right?

[dalton99a]

2. $1,200 won't last you long.

[empedocles]

3. trump trying to bs his way for 6 months, with 'the virus is winning', and

economy collapsing. trump keeps making things worse.

On a weekly basis things get worse.