Trump warned by conservative allies he has one month to salvage his re-election

[left-of-center2012]

According to a report from Politico, conservative allies of Donald Trump are advising him to move quickly on pushing the re-opening of the country as soon as possible to satisfy his base and, thereby, salvage his re-election prospects. According to one influential conservative, President Trump has one month to either win or lose the November presidential election.

“Trump aides and allies say they are growing confident that an earlier restart amid the coronavirus pandemic could help the president in his reelection campaign, according to six people close to the White House or Trump campaign. They point to emerging signs around the country. Trump-supported activists are protesting strict stay-at-home orders. Conservative groups’ internal polling in red-leaning and swing states show a significant uptick in Americans who favor reopening the country. A growing chorus of Republican lawmakers across the nation are on board.”

As Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, explained, “If you don’t see something start to happen … you’re going to see a conservative revolt by our base. The worst strategy for him is to keep things shut until August. Trump is basically going to win or lose his election right now, in the next month.”

“A swift economic restart, however, could backfire politically for Trump if it causes a flare up. Public health experts caution that the country currently lacks the robust testing capacity needed to relax social-distancing guidelines, and cases in many states have yet to peak,” Politico’s Anita Kumar wrote ...

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-warned-by-conservative-allies-he-has-one-month-to-salvage-his-re-election-report/

[renate]

1. "if" it causes a flareup?

Literally, how could it not?

His reluctance to pull every possible string to make tests available is inexplicable. That's the only way things reopen without a second spike. Magical thinking didn't work the first time--it's not going to work the second time.

[PCIntern]

3. Don't you understand...

It’s going to magically disappear next week

[sfstaxprep]

10. It's Only A Few Cases

It's going down to Zero.

[PCIntern]

16. Makes me want to vomit, fast as a comet... nt

[Budi]

28. "It'll just wash away.....wash away"

wash awaaaay, he said

39,000 American deaths - 2 months

[Maraya1969]

27. That shows one of the big differences between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives

do not learn from their mistakes.

"If there is a flare up"

OF COURSE THERE WILL BE A FLARE UP! That is how the science of epidemiology works! Do they believe in magical thinking or are they just too damn dumb to know?

And before this....

They nominate one village idiot who nearly destroys the country, causes over 1 million deaths by starting wars with 2 countries that never attacked us and sends us into a recession and then the next time.............They nominate another village idiot who is nearly destroying the country and causes thousands of deaths and probably sends the country into a recession.

[SoonerPride]

2. They conflate an opening up of these retails sites with a speedy economic rebound

and that ain't happening.



Oil is in negative territory.

People don't have excess disposable income.

Many won't go anywhere anyway because they feel unsafe.

And now many more people will die.

Rs up and down tha ballot are going to be wiped the fuck out.

[Midnight Writer]

18. Exactly. I, for one, am not about to let my guard down on Trump's say so.

[smirkymonkey]

29. +1000

Sometimes it just amazes me how stupid and short-sighted they are. They think like little children. If they just wish and hope hard enough, their dreams will come true! It's pretty much how they approach everything.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Yeah, right.

He's been doing his stupid 'press conferences' day in, day out, and they haven't helped one bit, other than to highlight just how grossly incompetent he really is.

Stupid is, as stupid does.

Idiots, all idiots (everyone of them, rump, cronies, allies, etc.) all contributed to the mess we're in now, and are acting like stupid headless chickens, running around aimlessly.

[underpants]

12. He already has the Freedumbers in his pocket

At this point he has no prayer of expanding (the afternoon blunderstorms are a disaster) and his only hope is serious voter suppression

[uponit7771]

5. ... or they're gonna sing his praises a little less louder? lol@BunchaPunkAzzes

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. "A swift economic restart, however, could backfire politically for Trump if it causes a flare up."

Ya think?

Sure as hell it would cause a flare-up.

Might burn up the whole campaign effort.

[Wounded Bear]

7. In a just world, there would be no re-election bid to "salvage"....

Trump should be toast, and I plan to try to make sure he is.

[JHB]

8. "An uptick"? Of course they see that.

Trump, Fox, OAN Rush, etc. constantly push that line. And the Republican base are pros at falling into line.

[elleng]

9. 'him' doesn't get to make that decision; fortunately

it's up to governors.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213319405

[Hekate]

11. Magical thinking. Body bags equal Victory, like the Vietnam War? That went well.

Dear gods I hate these people.

[Salviati]

13. Here is what will happen:

Sensible (i.e. Democratic) Governors will not allow the states to open prematurely. They will follow the best practices advice given by public health experts, and the example of the 1918 pandemic. There will be some irresponsible red state republican governors that will open up too early and we will inevitably see a spike in infections and deaths. It seems inevitable that this is what is going to play out.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. In other words.....

70% of the populations of AL, MS, AR, ND, SD, WY, MT, ID, NE, IA, and OK and probably FL will very likely be exposed at the very least, and hundreds of thousands will get sick, and thousands more will needlessly die.

That's the way I see it playing out. I said yesterday that I think the total deaths from this will number over a half million in this country.

We have utterly forgotten "United We Stand".

It has morphed into "I'm going to do what I want, and fuck you guys!"

[stopbush]

14. They think this is a PR issue that can be "won" by "framing and messaging."

Idiots.

[sheshe2]

15. Adam?

As Adam Brandon, president of FreedomWorks, explained, “If you don’t see something start to happen … you’re going to see a conservative revolt by our base. The worst strategy for him is to keep things shut until August. Trump is basically going to win or lose his election right now, in the next month.”

Oh, Adam? No problem, we will see something in the next two-three weeks. The virus is going to come roaring back and your base will be dead or dying. Good Job!

[Midnight Writer]

19. "You're going to see a conservative revolt" that FreedomWorks will be sponsoring.

[dalton99a]

17. The governors and mayors don't report to Donald Trump.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Why aren't they worried about lots more people dying and what kind of effect THAT will have?

I think most people would forgive a President for a bad economy due to circumstances like these beyond his/her control. It's weird that they don't think that bodies piling up wouldn't, you know, be bad for his re-election. Or are they thinking that, having done a slapdash and, frankly, pathetic job at responding to just the first wave of the crisis, that, once states "re-open" that that's the end of the story and any further deaths are just on the governors?

[JHB]

30. All they're looking at are the numbers...

...in their stock portfolios.

These are people who believe in Divine Right... the Divine Right of money.

[scarytomcat]

22. so he is dead no matter what

He made a mess of it and soon it will be over
Say byebye

[sheshe2]

25. Actually, I think he knows that.

He will be taking as many of us with him as he can.

[UTUSN]

23. "salvage re-election" - sames as what his FRIEND Piers MORGAN wants.

For some reason much was made here over Piers ranting about how SHITLER (& BoJo) aren't demonstrating admirable traits of leaders in WW II.

Yet Piers addressed "Donald" directly, saying that he could salvage the re-election if he magically starts doing those admirabe trait things.

And Piers ranted that this is not a time to play politics, yet didn't notice he was linking "leadership" to *salvaging the re-election" - which is not only politics, but CYNICAL politics, doing things JUST to win an election.

He and the usually good guy STELTER from Reliable Sources (Piers is a reliable source?!1) completely skipped over that SHITLER's complete unfitness existed *before* the current crisis and will always be there, their committing the same fallacy as many have done from Day 1, which is, hoping he will "grow" and change and BE SOMEBODY ELSE.

[GulfCoast66]

24. He shit the bed in February and now has to sleep in it.

Had he been a real president he would have prepared everyone, including his nuts that this could be a BFD and we may have to take drastic actions.

Instead he created the belief in his shit-for-brains followers this is all a hoax or a conspiracy to bring him down. So he has no good options left.

Keep doing what science calls for and see his base explode or open early and see death sweep over the nation. Or at least the red states that will open up ASAP and let the virus run rampant.

[Midnightwalk]

26. An ugly thought

The impact to urban and rural areas could be different. New York City was likely impacted disproportionately because of population density and mass transit.

Trump is an idiot and evil. Other republicans are just evil. Not saying there is a plan but that type of thinking could be influencing decisions.

As an economic plan it’s stupid. The economy won’t improve without cities. Morally it’s repugnant to weigh lives by rural versus urban.

[sdfernando]

31. For the GOP history is NOT to be learned from.

All they have to do is look back to the 1918 flu pandemic. A spike was reached and then restrictions were relaxed...then a larger spike ensued because people didn't want to go back to the behaviors that were working and saving lives. Countless thousands more died that could have lived because of it.

But no!....we can't learn from history, that is a fool's errand according to the GOP.

[Hugin]

32. You mean after all this time these goons haven't learned there's two rules in Trumpistan?

Rule #1: Nobody tells the Trumpenhuffer what to do.

Rule #2: Everything King Shat Midas touches goes to crap.

So, basically they're screwed.

However, this does explain the wide scale AstroTurf we've been seeing for the past couple of days.