Polls show Trump is losing ground where the coronavirus is surging

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Polls show Trump is losing ground where the coronavirus is surging
Will the latest Covid-19 wave seal Trump’s fate in the election?
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftoronto Oct 29, 2020, 2:30pm EDT


The third — and largest — coronavirus wave is hitting the US just in time for the presidential election, with surges in key Midwestern swing states. Numerous polls suggest voters may be taking their pandemic pain and panic with them to the ballot boxes in these places: President Donald Trump isn’t just down in national polls — he’s faring especially poorly in battlegrounds where infection rates are spiking.

Over the last two weeks, the coronavirus case count in Wisconsin — where Trump won by a single percentage point in 2016 — has jumped 36 percent, to an average of 4,200 new infections per day. And that’s just among the people who’ve been diagnosed. The test positivity rate in the state is a staggering 28 percent, according to Covidexitstrategy.org, and health officials have already had to transform the state fair park into a field hospital to manage the crush of new patients.

The situation is nearly as worrisome in Michigan: Cases there have risen 73 percent in the last two weeks, to 2,600 per day, while the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has more than doubled since the end of September. It’s another swing state, which Trump won by an even tinier margin — of 0.3 — in 2016.

In these places, and the states around them, the majority of voters apparently prefer Biden. That has mostly been the state of things for some time, but is perhaps even clearer as Election Day approaches. “Biden is doing well everywhere — but his leads are even more solid in places where the coronavirus is hitting the hardest,” said Mike Greenfield, the chief executive officer of Change Research, who has been tracking the impact of the pandemic on voter decision-making.

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https://www.vox.com/2020/10/29/21539945/coronavirus-trump-biden-polls-swing-states-wisconsin

[panader0]

1. And the virus surges everywhere he has a rally.

CNN just showed a chart that clearly illustrated that fact.

[lagomorph777]

4. Donny COVID-seed

I saw that chart.

[docgee]

2. I hate that the media is giving trump and the GOP an excuse.

I think trump would have lost without the coronavirus happening. Maybe not losing to the degree he is now, but still you will hear gopers say "trump would have won if it weren't for the virus". They will have learned nothing about voting for the next corrupt authoritarian piece of shit that comes along.

[lagomorph777]

3. Silver lining to a very dark cloud.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

5. Trump took many of his supporters out with a CV-19 Automatic

MAGA Rally Express customized rifle.

Trump's Keep America Sick rallies are coronavirus farms.

[dreamland]

6. So it takes an act of God for them to contract Covid

In order to change their minds about voting for dump. Thank God.