Americans now disapprove of Trump's handling of pandemic.

[RandySF]

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, his flag rally numbers were already abysmal now they get worse as recession gets worse

[madaboutharry]

2. Something is seriously wrong with 47% of Americans

if they think Trump was handling this crisis appropriately.

What is wrong with them!

[Thomas Hurt]

3. No one in the family has died and they will need the no. of dead to be in the hundreds of thousands

before they get a clue.

[GulfCoast66]

7. No. Not at all.

It is not just the nature of Americans but all humans to rally together when things get bad.

A normal President could have rode this to easy re-election by providing calm, reassuring and transparent leadership. Look at Bush after 911. I hate the guy. But he handled that well. Even vocally condemned attacks on Muslim Americans.

The fact that is trump can’t even do that because he cares more about settling scores and being praised then anything else. Even when it is not in his self interest.

It is not even bad yet compared to where it is going to be. I have several republican coworkers who have out of nowhere brought up how he has fucked this up. And until they broached the subject I had never talked politics with them and I assume they think I am conservative.

[sop]

4. George H. W. and George W. Bush's approval ratings both rose to around 90%

following the first Gulf War and 9/11. W's approval was 22% when he left office, and his dad's weren't that much better when Clinton defeated him in '92.

All "wartime" presidents' poll numbers go up for several months following the crisis. Trump's hardly went up, and that only lasted a few days. People are onto this POS, they aren't being fooled. It will only get worse for Trump as the virus spreads and the economy remains in the toilet.

[JHB]

6. Yeah, there have been a couple of people who've been "ZOMG! How can this be happening!?"...

...about his mild rise in some poll numbers that I've had to remind:

The only poll that matters is the one in November. Stop tracking the latest polls. Let them go for a month or two. In two months either things will be the same, in which case you've saved yourself from eight weeks of busting a gut, or it will be very different. Since we're facing something that he can't bullshit his way out of, and his bullshitting will actively make worse, odds are it will be the latter.

[gibraltar72]

5. Now a warning!