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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump 'glum and shell-shocked' as coronavirus pandemic cripples his re-election efforts [View all]
Some of Trumps advisers described the president as glum and shell-shocked by his declining popularity. In private conversations, he has struggled to process how his fortunes suddenly changed from believing he was on a glide path to reelection to realizing that he is losing to the likely Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, in virtually every poll, including his own campaigns internal surveys, advisers said, the report states. He also has been fretting about the possibility that a bad outbreak of the virus this fall could damage his standing in the November election, said the advisers, who along with other aides and allies requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
With that in mind, the president is hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base.
The president is also eager to resume political travel in June, including holding his signature rallies by the end of the summer in areas where there are few cases, advisers said. Trumps political team has begun discussions about organizing a high-dollar, in-person fundraiser next month, as well as preliminary planning about staging rallies and what sort of screenings might be necessary, according to Republican National Committee officials and outsider advisers, the report adds. One option being considered is holding rallies outdoors, rather than in enclosed arenas, a senior administration official said.
With that in mind, the president is hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base.
The president is also eager to resume political travel in June, including holding his signature rallies by the end of the summer in areas where there are few cases, advisers said. Trumps political team has begun discussions about organizing a high-dollar, in-person fundraiser next month, as well as preliminary planning about staging rallies and what sort of screenings might be necessary, according to Republican National Committee officials and outsider advisers, the report adds. One option being considered is holding rallies outdoors, rather than in enclosed arenas, a senior administration official said.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-glum-and-shell-shocked-as-coronavirus-pandemic-cripples-his-re-election-efforts-report/|]
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The petulant man baby is planning to risk covid spread at his MAGA rallies, because he craves the attention and of course he thinks this will see him through in November. Heh. I can see how that will back fire. Open up the rallies in places with few cases (if there is any such place any time soon) and that local community will be a hotspot in a hot minute. And the only determining factor for the virus showing up in numbers is that a MAGA rally took place? Trump spreading the virus and killing people, literally, not a good look for re- election prospects me thinks.
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Trump 'glum and shell-shocked' as coronavirus pandemic cripples his re-election efforts [View all]
Soph0571
May 2020
OP
"hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base."
ehrnst
May 2020
#1
"Why didn't those selfish people try harder to stay alive? Now they've hurt my re-election chances!"
struggle4progress
May 2020
#2
We all use news aggregators and I'm not out to "get" Rawstory, but could we also recognize WAPO
hlthe2b
May 2020
#3
Why don't we take the WAPO story and make an unfalsifiable headline out of it!
Shermann
May 2020
#12
I would do both...WP has a paywall sometimes the only place you can read such stories is
Demsrule86
May 2020
#70
And I bet no one (other than the press) will be wearing face masks at his Nuremberg rallies.
sop
May 2020
#6
I was thinking more of Hitler and Eva in the bunker, or Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family.
sop
May 2020
#18
And he's got no one to blame other than himself (but of course he won't). Extremely ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2020
#24
I think he was trying to go there with his wild claims that the virus is a "Democratic hoax."
Jedi Guy
May 2020
#63
Like your thinking here. Yeah, let's show those overhead drone views of just how tiny....
machoneman
May 2020
#59
we are already seeing the Biden attack strategy via Reade in full swing
NRaleighLiberal
May 2020
#44
Yes! Maybe a really long three-day rally in a 70,000 seat packed stadium.
Alex4Martinez
May 2020
#61
He's playing with fire. If there was ever an almost 74-year old who was at risk, this is him.
BComplex
May 2020
#78