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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP senators worry Trump, COVID-19 could cost them their majority
The HillSenate Republicans looking at polls showing GOP incumbents losing ground are concerned that President Trump's handling of the pandemic has put their majority in danger.
The two biggest criticisms of Trump that GOP lawmakers express privately are that his administration took too long to deploy coronavirus tests and that the presidents statements and demeanor have been too cavalier or flippant.
The biggest headwind Republicans face this fall is the faltering national economy, which now has a 14.7 unemployment rate, according to a Friday report by the Labor Department.
While Republican senators acknowledge that Trumps popular support is tough to poll, some are concerned about surveys showing his approval rating below that of all 50 governors and other world leaders.
Compounding their anxiety are recent polls showing Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), a once-safe incumbent, now trailing his Democratic opponent, Gov. Steve Bullock, and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who was also seen as cruising to reelection, in a dead heat with Democrat Theresa Greenfield.
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GOP senators worry Trump, COVID-19 could cost them their majority (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2020
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tanyev
(42,516 posts)1. No, it's your blind support of Trump that is endangering your majority.
gordianot
(15,233 posts)2. They all had a chance to rid themselves of Trump.
It was inevitable Trump would get a major disaster to screw up. The actual Capital building and White House are due for a really good fumigation of not only a killer virus.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)3. Maybe because they are sniveling cowards?