Will these riots give Trump a second term?

[Dawson Leery]

Or will the incumbent be faulted for this as it happened on his watch (AND Trump poured gasoline onto the fire)?

[Demsrule86]

1. It is on Trump's watch...he will be blamed as he should be.

[milestogo]

2. No, but they will give us a HUGE second wave of COVID19.

[malaise]

5. THIS

There will be over 200,000 dead by November

[hlthe2b]

13. We are on trajectory of doubling fatalities every two months

and given the lifting of stay-at-home orders, not to mention crowds celebrating, partying, and now, protesting... we will sadly be there as early as August.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html


Beyond tragic...

[malaise]

18. You may well be right

[woodsprite]

7. We can only hope that the ones caught up in the

2nd wave are the Trumphumpers, now-Nazis, and white supremacists so there are less trump voters casting their vote.

[bigtree]

23. did we forget all of the trumpers protesting for months now WITHOUT any protections

...no masks, no distancing?

And folks want to cite these nascent protests? Wtf?

[milestogo]

31. No, they're not forgotten

All of these breaches of the recommended behavior will have consequences for the epidemic. The virus has no politics.

[unblock]

3. Generally, social unrest is a bad thing for the incumbent party

It's one of litchman's keys to the presidency.

Sustained social unrest would turn this key in favor of the challenging party, i.e., Democrats (Biden)

[Dawson Leery]

8. I tend to agree. Also, past Presidents work to calm the storm.

Conman is throwing high octane gasoline on the fire.

[LisaL]

4. I hope not.

I guess we will find out soon enough.

[uponit7771]

6. Trump doesn't look strong with his forces attacking old men, nurses and children.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. No. NOTHING will give him a second term.

Not even if/when he tries to rig the election.

He's a big, fat, drug-addled LOSER, no matter how you slice it.




#newrostrong

[Raven123]

10. We can simply hope not, but better to make sure by not letting him hijack the issue

Trump, Barr and company are trying to make this about “far-left” groups of protesters and not about generations of discrimination by law enforcement and bad laws which enable them. Dem leaders need to step up, speak out and offer solutions

[dustyscamp]

24. Not just Dem Leaders

We normal people need to do the same to counter the loud voices of the facist right

[Edwcraig]

11. Trump net approval up .8 in the last 24 hours.

[linda52]

14. uh oh!

It's over everyone.

[Dawson Leery]

16. Under one point is just statistical noise.

[Maeve]

22. Bull

Even with proper polling, that would be statistically insignificant.

[Edwcraig]

25. Disapproval going up for 11 straight days. Today first day it went down.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[jcgoldie]

28. OMG OMG I cant believe they spent all night polling people to get these up to the minute stats!

Jesus christ...

[stillcool]

12. The people on the tv will say so..

I guess it depends on if 'we the people' have learned anything.

[Lulu KC]

15. Nope--

not unless we get too tired to do our work. We must stay strong. Now is our moment.

[FloridaBlues]

17. No I don't believe this will give trump a win

By November there will more/ different issues to bring him down.

[Penn Voter]

19. NO

He is not the outsider. He is in power, however, he is not a leader. He cannot build upon his base.

[crickets]

20. No, but it will give the doom and gloomers a nice chew toy. nt

[MoonRiver]

21. No. I think it will destroy him.

Add his horrific response to the pandemic, and he is finished, imo.

[imanamerican63]

26. If Putin gets involved?

[BannonsLiver]

27. I wonder how many times this defeatist trope will be posted.

[KentuckyWoman]

29. Thanks for your concern.

[Drunken Irishman]

30. Did it for Bush in 1992?

Plenty of civil unrest then too.

[LiberalBrooke]

32. No

[Cosmocat]

33. Its going to stem and likely chew up

some of the gains Joe and down ballot Ds were building the last month.

The sooner this ends and we move past it, the better