Mod: When it comes to committing the worst malfeasance in United States history, Trump can now claim to "be best."
Historian predicts Trump downplaying pandemic will go down as 'the greatest dereliction of duty' in presidential history (
The Hilllink):
Allan Lichtman, the historian known for accurately predicting presidential elections, said that
President Trump’s downplaying of the coronavirus pandemic will be remembered as “
the greatest dereliction of duty” in presidential history.
“This is the greatest dereliction of duty in the history of the
U.S. presidency,”
Lichtman, a professor of history at
American University, told
CTV News Channel on Thursday.
Lichtman was responding to claims made in veteran journalist
Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book “
Rage.”
Woodward’s book, which is set to publish on Sept. 15, builds upon 18 interviews with the president, including one in which
Trump said
COVID-19 was "deadly" in early February, and later told the author he intentionally minimized its seriousness in public to avoid causing panic.
"I wanted to always play it down,"
Trump reportedly told
Woodward in a subsequent interview in March. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic.”
Lichtman said he doesn’t believe
Trump didn’t want to cause panic.
“What is
Trump’s whole campaign based on? Causing panic,”
Lichtman said. “‘Elect
Joe Biden and your streets are going to burn. The criminals will be attacking your houses. The suburbs will be abolished.’ This is a guy who’s worried about causing panic? Come on. How could you possibly believe that?”
Seniors Flee Trump As He Has Lost 17.5 Points Of Support Since 2016(
PoliticusUSA link): An analysis of recent polling found that
Trump has lost 17.5 points of support with seniors since 2016 as his rhetoric is pushing them away.
Via FiveThirtyEight: The pandemic has killed some
190,000 Americans, and 8 in 10 of the deaths reported have been among those 65 or over.
President Trump’s delayed and fractured response to the outbreak appears to have reshaped the political dynamics for older
Americans. Four years ago, he won voters 65 or over by a margin of 13.3 percentage points. But looking at an average of the nine most recent national polls, voters age 65 or over1 favored
Biden to
Trump by 49.5 percent to 45.7 percent.
The pandemic is part of the problem, but the other issue that his rhetoric on crime and race appear to be pushing away seniors, especially suburban seniors from supporting him.
Trump is hurting himself by adding to the anxiety of a group voters who are already anxious. Instead of reassuring seniors that he can handle the crisis in the nation,
Trump is fanning the flames and pushing older voters who supporterd him in 2016 toward
Joe Biden, because they want the nation’s problems to be solved.
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