Trump is losing America and Americans
As protesters gather near the White House daily, and the coronavirus pandemic rages on, President Donald Trump is being soured from the American public. A recent SSRS-led CNN poll shows Trump’s approval rating down 7 points in the past month as the president slides further behind presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden, whose popularity is now at its highest level in CNN polls.
The survey also finds a growing majority of Americans feel that racism is a big problem in today ‘s country and that the American criminal justice system favors whites over blacks. More than 8 in 10 also believe the nonviolent demonstrations that have erupted across the country since George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers are justified.
However, few Trump supporters have been able to accept some of the more controversial views of the president, such as his false claim on the 75-year-old man seen on a last week’s viral video bleeding from the ear after being hit by police in Buffalo was a radical provocateur faking his wound.
Perhaps emboldened by Trump’s reduced status, not to mention his own indignation at his actions, some Republicans have acted openly in opposition to the president, led by a number of prominent former military leaders as well as Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
But there is no sign of a mass exodus from the Trump runaway train yet. If anything, most elected Republicans see themselves onboard as prisoners, calculating that jumping off would lead to almost certain defeat, according to interviews with more than a dozen party strategists, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly.
While Trump has attacked some Democratic governors for their handling of the virus, its recent spread in Republican-led states such as Texas, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina and Oklahoma has complicated the politics around the president’s response.
Officials in some states that have contained much of the virus’s spread have called on Republican leaders in other states to take drastic measures to get control of the disease.
“As painful as it is, you’ve got to overdo it in terms of the aggressiveness in which you shut things down,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said in an interview.
While several Republican governors resisted shutdown efforts during the spring, some have begun to warn their residents that they are hardly immune.
Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi’s top health officer, told residents recently to be prepared for a lack of a hospital bed if they crash their cars or a lack of ventilators if they suffer a heart attack.
“If we’re not careful,” he said, “Mississippi will look like New York.”
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