'Nightmare scenario': Trump staffers panicked because president can't 'dig himself out of the hole h [View all]

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/nightmare-scenario-trump-staffers-panicked-because-president-cant-dig-himself-out-of-the-hole-hes-made-for-himself/

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According to a report from the Daily Beast, advisors closer to Donald Trump are in a full panic because the president’s poll numbers have fallen into what they earlier described as “nightmare scenario” territory where his re-election may be out of reach.

With Republicans looking at an electoral “wipeout” in November with Trump at the top of the ticket, campaign advisers had long dreaded the president’s approval numbers falling to record lows as the election approaches.

According to the Beast, “Over the past two weeks, several of the president’s campaign lieutenants, as well as individuals in his administration, have reacted with mounting alarm as multiple polls have shown Trump dipping into the 30s against former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee,” with the report noting some in the White House are surprised they haven’t fallen even more.

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“Some advisers lay the blame for recent poll numbers squarely at the weeks-long news coverage of the mass protests against institutional racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, and how Trump has responded to it,” the report notes adding that, ironically, some Trump aides “hoped coverage of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s tell-all book about Trump would actually lead to a poll bump for the president, if for no other reason than it would mean less talk of racism, COVID, and social unrest.”