60% of Americans fear we will re-open too early.
Trump has held his unwavering base through an impeachment and the pandemic.
But, at a max of 44%, he will have a difficult task of drawing a single voter to his side who is not already entrenched in his camp.
50- 55% of the electorate will come out to vote against him. That is Trump's starting place in November.
Maybe Trump didn't "take the virus seriously enough" to stop it, but if so, then no one did.
The real question: Did he, and all the Dems telling us to live our lives normally during the impeachment trial...did they act reasonably given the circumstances. Maybe they did, by not taking it more seriously. But, if they didn't, then it was an epidemic of unreasonable behavior in D.C., on both sides.
I don't get how people can blame Trump for that, when those same people were saying it was no big deal, and moving forward with impeachment.
If he moved more quickly, and started shutting things down during the impeachment and during the primaries, you would be screaming about an autocrat trying to set aside the Constitution. All this is pure politics.
He wasted the entire month of February and half of March when he should have been gearing up for the outbreak and preparing the country.
He took credit for every feckin piece of good economic news for three years. He gets the blame here as he is the captain of the ship.
His attempts to deflect it are embarrassing.
He did declare a public emergency on January 31 and initiated the China travel ban.
But, Pelosi and other Dems were trying to undermine that. Pelosi was in San Francisco China Town telling people that everything was fine, and tourists should all come to San Francisco at the end of February. Dems were doing the same thing in NY. Biden said the travel ban was xenophobic.
Now, Pelosi says Trump should have locked down the country while the impeachment trial she initiated in January, in the middle of all this, was proceeding? Don't you think that sounds a little disingenuous (and politically motivated) for her to say that?
The impeachment dog doesn’t hunt at all. There was no way he was facing conviction. He was doing rallies and playing golf throughout.
I really don’t care what Pelosi says. The evidence shows he downplayed and politicized this thing for a month and one half. He will pay the political price and should.