In the political arena, President Donald Trump’s overall job approval rating advanced to his best on record in ABC/Post polls, 48%, even as 58% say he acted too slowly in the early days of the outbreak. This is the first time since he took office that Trump’s approval rating has exceeded disapproval of his work, 46% (though the difference isn’t statistically significant).
Fifty-one percent approve specifically of Trump’s handling of the outbreak; 45% don’t.
That said, there are substantial risks to the president. Trump’s overall approval rating drops among people who are more worried about catching the coronavirus, report severe local economic impacts, say their lives have been especially disrupted or know someone who’s caught the virus. He also has lower approval in states with higher per-capita infection rates.
Well to be clear, this means his approvals have gone down in Washington, New York, and California, and has likely gone way up everywhere else. Much depends on where you get your news. Do you trust the NY Times and WaPo or are you are listening to the Coronavirus task force and actual doctors and scientists (many of whom are now tempering earlier predictions of doom). Are you more apt to believe Andrew Cuomo complaining 24-7 about what everyone else hasn't done for him, or are you more apt to believe the numbers suggesting that he has more and needs less than he claims... and that 99% of whatever shortage there is can be blamed on his own State and his own lack of leadership.
The reality is that it's perfectly reasonable to believe that there are things that could have been done earlier, but understand that much as been done and that much more is being done. I also believe that much of this is tempered by the fact that very few people were calling for "more" and many (Democrats especially) were critical of early action that the President did take, calling things like the travel ban to be knee jerk and racist.
We do not expect perfection. We expect adaptation and ultimately we want long term results. The end of this story has not yet been written. But if it ends with limited casualties, an actual vaccine, and at least the start of an economic recovery, Trump's approvals are not going to be negatively affected by things that were said (or not done) in the first weeks of all of this.
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Otoh, Pelosi deserves this call back to vote after the way she derailed bipartisan negotiations for her petty politics. And dems all went along with her. They actually do deserve this.
TRUMP SOARS IM THE POLL TODAY BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
LIL Schitty cums all over himself!
Not-a-Pastor James calling for Church goers in the US Die.
James also told every Conservative here to go "Royally Go 🖕 themselves".
James is like these sick scum.
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The New York Times published an op-ed Friday that blamed evangelical Christians for the coronavirus pandemic."
The liberal media is in meltdown. Twitter has been garbage this week.
Misinformation Will Kill People In a Pandemic
March 27, 2020 at 11:54 am EDT
Washington Post:
“In recent days, a growing contingent of Trump supporters have pushed the narrative that health experts are part of a deep-state plot to hurt Trump’s reelection efforts by damaging the economy and keeping the United States shut down as long as possible. Trump himself pushed this idea in the early days of the outbreak, calling warnings on coronavirus a kind of ‘hoax’ meant to undermine him.
“The notion is deeply troubling, say leading health experts, because what the country does next and how many people die depend largely on what evidence U.S. leaders and the public use to inform their decisions. Epidemiologists worry their research — intended to avert massive deaths in situations exactly like this pandemic — will be dismissed by federal leaders when it is needed most.”
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