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DIY-HP-LED

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It’s Slowly Dawning on Trump That He’s Losing
The president is raging at his advisers, as they try to explain where he went wrong.
APRIL 30, 2020

It’s far too early to know who will win the 2020 presidential election, but at the moment, President Donald Trump is losing.

There’s ample polling to back that up. RealClearPolitics’s average has the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, up 6.3 percent on Trump. Polling averages in each of the potentially decisive states show Biden up, too, save North Carolina—and even there, the most recent polls show Biden ahead by 5 percent. A survey of Texans released yesterday even has Biden up by a point in the Lone Star State.

But you don’t have to take the public polling at face value. Take the president’s and his campaign’s word for it.

“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump told Reuters yesterday. Claiming the polls are wrong is the last refuge of a struggling candidate. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.” (A bit late for that.)

David A. Graham: Why Trump just can’t quit his daily press conferences

Privately, however, Trump is not so sanguine. Late yesterday, a trio of stories arrived reporting on turmoil inside the president’s reelection campaign. It’s a throwback to the news-dump Fridays of the early Trump administration—or to the fractious leaks that characterized Trump’s 2016 campaign. CNN reported that Trump screamed at his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, last Friday over his sliding poll numbers, even threatening to sue him. (How serious the threat was, CNN notes, is unclear, and Trump issues empty lawsuit threats as reflexively as many people check their phone.)

The New York Times confirms that account, and The Washington Post adds more detail, saying that campaign, White House, and Republican National Committee officials held a de facto intervention, trying to impress upon the president the political peril he faces and to get him to rein in his catastrophic daily briefings.

None of this predetermines a Trump loss in November, of course. At this stage four years ago, the Trump campaign was fractious, dealing with a possibly overmatched novice campaign manager, and trailing in the polls to Hillary Clinton, and he shocked the world by winning the election.

That upset may help to explain Trump’s fury now. The president is still fighting the last war, trying to rerun the 2016 campaign in a new environment. Trump clearly has never really moved on from the previous race, tweeting about it as recently as this morning. No campaign rally is complete without a lengthy soliloquy on the 2016 race, and Trump never stopped holding campaign rallies, even in the first months of his term in office. As recently as this January, a (misleading) map of the 2016 election results has been spotted on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. He also continues to claim that the election was a landslide, rather than a loss in the popular vote—which he sometimes explains away with bogus claims of fraud.

David A. Graham: Why Trump was deaf to all the warnings he received

One can imagine the president’s side of this argument. In 2016, he did everything he was told not to do—by “smart” Republicans, by the media, and by many of his own aides—and still won. The engine of that victory, he believes, was his personal connection with American voters, cemented through the constant rallies he held. He’s feeling cabin fever and eager to get out of the house—you and me both, Mr. President—and back on the campaign trail. He said yesterday at a White House event that he plans to travel to Arizona next week. (One difference between you and me and the president is that while we’re all cooped up, he has hosted an endless procession of visitors from around the country for photo ops at the White House.)

Trump sees his poll numbers sliding and wants to get back on the trail to buck them up, no matter the public-health risks. And if he can’t do that, he wants to hold daily press appearances where he can thrust himself into the spotlight, a proxy for rallies. More than a few pundits have likened the daily briefings to rallies, with the added benefit of Anthony Fauci for a prop.

One can see the traces of this interpretation in the Times report:
Mr. Trump demanded to know how it was possible that a campaign that had been projecting strength and invincibility for two years was polling behind a candidate he viewed as extremely weak and, at the moment, largely invisible from daily news coverage.
There are several problems with this analysis. First, Trump’s projection of strength was always flimsy; although Trump entered the election as a slight favorite, the race was always likely to be tight. Second, Biden was never quite so weak as Trump claims here, and probably stronger than Hillary Clinton (despite manifest flaws). Third, Biden’s invisibility looks like an asset; the Democrat is, by choice or necessity, letting Trump run against himself, to great effect. Finally, this account ignores the central political fact of the moment, which is that tens of thousands of Americans have died in a pandemic that polls show voters believe Trump has botched.
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DIY-HP-LED

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Meanwhile Donald is helping out in any way he can...
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Dow Jones Dives 600 Points As Stock Market Sells Off On Trump's New Threat

Stocks sold off Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 600 points after President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on China over the coronavirus pandemic.

The Nasdaq plunged 3.6%, the S&P 500 dived 2.9% and the Dow Jones industrials shed 2.6% in the stock market today. Small caps tracked by the Russell 2000 fared even worse, down 4.8%. Volume was lighter on both major exchanges, lessening the sting a bit.

Despite the sell-off, the key indexes are on track for minor weekly losses as a volatile week comes to a close. The Dow Jones index is down 0.1%, the S&P 500 0.3% and the Nasdaq 0.5%. So the coronavirus stock market rally remains intact. Read The Big Picture each day for further detailed analysis of what's happening on Wall Street.

Late Thursday at a White House event, Trump said he could use tariffs to punish China over its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 3.35 million with nearly 237,000 deaths, according to Worldometer data tracker. The U.K., Russia and the U.S. each added more than 6,000 cases. Cases in the U.S. rose past 1.1 million with more than 64,000 deaths.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Chris Hayes On Trump Refusing To Release Relief Funding For Burials Amid Pandemic | All In | MSNBC

Chris Hayes on Trump refusing to authorize FEMA to release relief funding: “That small little bit of inaction, of utter cold-heartedness, says everything you need to know about the way that he has navigated this crisis.” Aired on 04/30/2020.
 

schuylaar

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Chris Hayes On Trump Refusing To Release Relief Funding For Burials Amid Pandemic | All In | MSNBC

Chris Hayes on Trump refusing to authorize FEMA to release relief funding: “That small little bit of inaction, of utter cold-heartedness, says everything you need to know about the way that he has navigated this crisis.” Aired on 04/30/2020.
Doral, anyone? Sand traps are pre-dug burial pits.

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schuylaar

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Meanwhile Donald is helping out in any way he can...
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Dow Jones Dives 600 Points As Stock Market Sells Off On Trump's New Threat

Stocks sold off Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 600 points after President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on China over the coronavirus pandemic.

The Nasdaq plunged 3.6%, the S&P 500 dived 2.9% and the Dow Jones industrials shed 2.6% in the stock market today. Small caps tracked by the Russell 2000 fared even worse, down 4.8%. Volume was lighter on both major exchanges, lessening the sting a bit.

Despite the sell-off, the key indexes are on track for minor weekly losses as a volatile week comes to a close. The Dow Jones index is down 0.1%, the S&P 500 0.3% and the Nasdaq 0.5%. So the coronavirus stock market rally remains intact. Read The Big Picture each day for further detailed analysis of what's happening on Wall Street.

Late Thursday at a White House event, Trump said he could use tariffs to punish China over its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 3.35 million with nearly 237,000 deaths, according to Worldometer data tracker. The U.K., Russia and the U.S. each added more than 6,000 cases. Cases in the U.S. rose past 1.1 million with more than 64,000 deaths.
So Trump is driving the US into the ground just like his casinos and other businesses; the fix is bankruptcy for states?
 

schuylaar

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That fucking idiot doesn't even remember what he himself said the day before.


I hope all that money is worth it too look up at that monkey faced sub-human while he's fucking you.
She and Melania are both whores simply put, and everyone knows it.
you know how when he's at the podium and can;t think of what he want's to say? he starts to make this sound uhhhhhhhhhhhhh but with a NY accent..that what he sounds like in bed.
 

schuylaar

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"I didn't say it." This is what happens kids, when you don't attend to the syphilis infection. Use condoms.
I watched him say it live..when he's caught in a lie he didn't see coming, and has no response for, his hands move faster and his eyes/head dart back and forth quickly.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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The White House blocks Fauci from appearing before Congress.
The White House is preventing Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from testifying before the House next week, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee said on Friday.

Top Democrats on the panel had wanted Dr. Fauci to testify as part of an in-person hearing led by Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, who oversees the subcommittee responsible for funding health, labor and education agencies and programs. But when the committee asked for Dr. Fauci to appear, the Trump administration denied the request and the committee was told by an administration official that it was because of the White House, according to Evan Hollander, a spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee.

A White House spokesman defended the decision as aimed at keeping the administration focused on its response to the virus. “It is counterproductive to have the very individuals involved in those efforts appearing at congressional hearings,” said the spokesman, Judd Deere. “We are committed to working with Congress to offer testimony at the appropriate time.”

The Washington Post first reported the White House’s decision.

Dr. Fauci, one of the most visible faces of the administration’s fight against the coronavirus, has often quietly contradicted many of Mr. Trump’s statements on how the administration is handling the outbreak and how quickly the country will be able to recover.

But the White House has directed government health officials and scientists to coordinate all statements and public appearances with Vice President Mike Pence’s office, in an effort to streamline the administration’s messaging. Dr. Fauci told associates in February that he had been instructed not to say anything else without clearance, but has become a media fixture as the toll of the pandemic has grown.
 

schuylaar

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IDEAS
It’s Slowly Dawning on Trump That He’s Losing
The president is raging at his advisers, as they try to explain where he went wrong.
APRIL 30, 2020

It’s far too early to know who will win the 2020 presidential election, but at the moment, President Donald Trump is losing.

There’s ample polling to back that up. RealClearPolitics’s average has the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, up 6.3 percent on Trump. Polling averages in each of the potentially decisive states show Biden up, too, save North Carolina—and even there, the most recent polls show Biden ahead by 5 percent. A survey of Texans released yesterday even has Biden up by a point in the Lone Star State.

But you don’t have to take the public polling at face value. Take the president’s and his campaign’s word for it.

“I don’t believe the polls,” Trump told Reuters yesterday. Claiming the polls are wrong is the last refuge of a struggling candidate. “I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don’t think that they will put a man in who’s incompetent.” (A bit late for that.)

David A. Graham: Why Trump just can’t quit his daily press conferences

Privately, however, Trump is not so sanguine. Late yesterday, a trio of stories arrived reporting on turmoil inside the president’s reelection campaign. It’s a throwback to the news-dump Fridays of the early Trump administration—or to the fractious leaks that characterized Trump’s 2016 campaign. CNN reported that Trump screamed at his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, last Friday over his sliding poll numbers, even threatening to sue him. (How serious the threat was, CNN notes, is unclear, and Trump issues empty lawsuit threats as reflexively as many people check their phone.)

The New York Times confirms that account, and The Washington Post adds more detail, saying that campaign, White House, and Republican National Committee officials held a de facto intervention, trying to impress upon the president the political peril he faces and to get him to rein in his catastrophic daily briefings.

None of this predetermines a Trump loss in November, of course. At this stage four years ago, the Trump campaign was fractious, dealing with a possibly overmatched novice campaign manager, and trailing in the polls to Hillary Clinton, and he shocked the world by winning the election.

That upset may help to explain Trump’s fury now. The president is still fighting the last war, trying to rerun the 2016 campaign in a new environment. Trump clearly has never really moved on from the previous race, tweeting about it as recently as this morning. No campaign rally is complete without a lengthy soliloquy on the 2016 race, and Trump never stopped holding campaign rallies, even in the first months of his term in office. As recently as this January, a (misleading) map of the 2016 election results has been spotted on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. He also continues to claim that the election was a landslide, rather than a loss in the popular vote—which he sometimes explains away with bogus claims of fraud.

David A. Graham: Why Trump was deaf to all the warnings he received

One can imagine the president’s side of this argument. In 2016, he did everything he was told not to do—by “smart” Republicans, by the media, and by many of his own aides—and still won. The engine of that victory, he believes, was his personal connection with American voters, cemented through the constant rallies he held. He’s feeling cabin fever and eager to get out of the house—you and me both, Mr. President—and back on the campaign trail. He said yesterday at a White House event that he plans to travel to Arizona next week. (One difference between you and me and the president is that while we’re all cooped up, he has hosted an endless procession of visitors from around the country for photo ops at the White House.)

Trump sees his poll numbers sliding and wants to get back on the trail to buck them up, no matter the public-health risks. And if he can’t do that, he wants to hold daily press appearances where he can thrust himself into the spotlight, a proxy for rallies. More than a few pundits have likened the daily briefings to rallies, with the added benefit of Anthony Fauci for a prop.

One can see the traces of this interpretation in the Times report:

There are several problems with this analysis. First, Trump’s projection of strength was always flimsy; although Trump entered the election as a slight favorite, the race was always likely to be tight. Second, Biden was never quite so weak as Trump claims here, and probably stronger than Hillary Clinton (despite manifest flaws). Third, Biden’s invisibility looks like an asset; the Democrat is, by choice or necessity, letting Trump run against himself, to great effect. Finally, this account ignores the central political fact of the moment, which is that tens of thousands of Americans have died in a pandemic that polls show voters believe Trump has botched.
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Right. So he yells at his campaign manager and threatens to sue, his campaign manager brings him revised numbers and he's happy.

He's officially a toddler.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Former republicans, actual patriotic conservatives, which is why they are former republicans.
Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, at the historic Cooper Union

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, at the historic Cooper Union in NYC, reminding every American that we must listen to the call of history and put #CountryOverParty
 

Budzbuddha

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>:(“I Will Never Lie To You”: New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Her First Briefing ... :wall:

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday did something her predecessor never did: She held an official press briefing.

“I will never lie to you. You have my word on this,” she said in response to a question from Associated Press correspondent Jill Colvin.

I think I will leave it right there ...... *need a drink .... fucking lyin bitch
 
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