White Voters Are Abandoning Trump
And they’re doing so for a surprising reason.
June 30, 2020
David A. Graham
Staff writer at The Atlantic
For most of the past three years, the only thing more futile than looking for Donald Trump to pivot was expecting the American people to do so. No matter how successful the president was, or, more often, how chaotic and disorderly his administration was, nothing seemed to be able to shake up people’s views of Trump.
Popular approval of Trump hovered in the same narrow range, roughly from 39 to 45 percent, through Charlottesville and tax reform, supposed border caravans and mass shootings, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and impeachment.
As the election approaches, the president’s approval rating becomes less important than how he’s polling against his challenger. And in the past few weeks, something has shifted. After months of Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, leading by single digits, a series of polls has recently shown him building a sizable lead. Surveys from The New York Times/Siena College and Harvard/Harris have Trump trailing by 14 and 12 points, respectively. A series of swing-state polls shows Biden tied or leading in states that Trump won comfortably in 2016.
As pollsters are at pains to point out, polls are snapshots and not forecasts; Biden’s lead could dissipate, though this race has been unusually stable so far. Contrary to Trump’s protestations, Biden’s lead as it exists now is real—and given how hard it has been for anything to dent Trump’s carapace, it’s worth examining closely. Stranger still, the impetus appears to be race—something that has been both Trump’s Achilles’ heel and his secret weapon throughout his political career. For some reason, it’s affecting his political standing differently than it has before.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-trump-tanking-polls/613651/Can't say I believe everything in this article. People should be thinking about this if they are concerned about the election. Trump couldn't possibly lose because Chosen Daughter posts on TBR.
The way I see is a mixed message mess. He says he does more for the African American community then he posts video's on his twitter of a man chanting white power. He can't pander to the African Americans like the liberals because, then of course he is just doing the same thing.
He's been courting Democrats and people that never vote at his rallies. We'll see if they even vote, or maybe they go for the entertainment. As for the left. You can't say you are against abortion and promote pro abortionists over other Republicans. You can't say you are anti extreme environmentalism and embrace a Sierra Club endorsed candidate against Republicans.
Wishy washy in every way.
