Media mystified as America rallies behind President Trump during coronavirus crisis

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 Media mystified as America rallies behind President Trump during coronavirus crisis

By Post Editorial Board

April 4, 2020 | 8:43pm

For decades, Americans have rallied behind their president in time of crisis, so it’s no mystery that President Trump’s approval ratings are up. Except, that is, to anti-Trump obsessives — including much of the media.

“Who Are the Voters Behind Trump’s Higher Approval Rating?” a New York Times headline asked last week. That is: Who could possibly think he’s doing a good job — when no one at the Times does?

The paper notes that Trump’s positives, at 49 percent, are “as high as ever,” with independents and even some Democrats driving the numbers up. And that comes “despite what most agree to be his slow response” (“most,” again, meaning most at the Times) as well as his ideas that “contradict” experts and his outright “falsehoods.”

Memo to the Gray Lady: Those polls show that most Americans don’t think the president’s response has been horrific. (Didn’t the Times vow to pay more attention to middle America after the 2016 election?) They know the virus caught the entire world by surprise and is hugely difficult to tame. They appreciate his efforts to deal with it.

And a good chunk of them like his way of talking, even if it drives newspeople up the wall.

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https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/media-mystified-as-us-rallies-behind-trump-amid-coronavirus-crisis/

[goatprairie]

Paging Pauline Kael.
It's a fact that a great many liberals just can't understand why someone would rally around the president. Because they're clueless.
I'm not pretending that the Trump admin hasn't made or won't make mistakes during this crisis.
It's virtually impossible not to make some mistakes.
But Trump made moves to impede the virus in late January while liberals were trying to impeach him and calling him a racist.
The honest thing for lib organs like the Slimes should do is apologize for their mud-slinging.
You know that won't happen.

[PeteS in CA]

Ummmmmmm, maybe many Americans remember Trump was already taking action in January? And February? And the MSM and Dems were hurling flak at him for those actions that the MSM and Dems now pretend didn't happen?