Trump burns the Trump Presidency to the ground

[KeithD]

‘Expect Trump to go ballistic’: Biden opens massive lead in new poll


Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 14 points in a New York Times/Siena poll released Wednesday as the president’s approval rating continues to plummet.
Biden tops Trump 50-36 with 14% of voters undecided, according to the poll, which surveyed more than 1,300 registered voters.

While Trump leads among white voters with no college degree, Biden leads almost every other demographic group. Biden leads slightly among male voters and has a 22-point lead among women voters. He leads by 34 points among voters under 34 and by 23 points among voters between 35 and 49. He leads by 28 points among white voters with a college degree, 39 points among Hispanic voters and 74 points among Black voters.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/ex...ad-in-new-poll/?utm_source=push_notifications

So, Trump's base is the uneducated. Who could have guessed that?

 

[jp55665566]

‘Expect Trump to go ballistic’: Biden opens massive lead in new poll

hahahaha... an even NEWER POLL suggests that only 1% of likely voters, in ANY PARTY would cast their ballot for Joe Biden << haha. Joe is a laughing stock, and perhaps the WEAKEST Presidential candidate in history!

 

[domroger]

^^^^^
On cue .

 

[KeithD]

hahahaha... an even NEWER POLL suggests that only 1% of likely voters, in ANY PARTY would cast their ballot for Joe Biden << haha. Joe is a laughing stock, and perhaps the WEAKEST Presidential candidate in history!

Cite the poll. You aren't trustworthy.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Cite the poll. You aren't trustworthy.

Trustworthy? Him, you can't be serious, isn't he the one who had the avatar with a c@@k the size of 18 pound cannon for a while...I have him safely stored in the iggy bin, except when he get quoted. Which to be honest, is very infrequent.

 

[KeithD]

Trustworthy? Him, you can't be serious, isn't he the one who had the avatar with a c@@k the size of 18 pound cannon for a while...I have him safely stored in the iggy bin, except when he get quoted. Which to be honest, is very infrequent.

I don't bother to try to keep track of the ban-avoiding spinning alts here.

 

[Schlank]

Trump: "Biden's 'going to be your president because some people don't love me"


Mr Trump, who appeared to defend his administration’s actions on Covid-19, had seen Mr Biden attack him some 24 hours earlier as the American death toll passed 125,000.

The Democrat told supporters in Pennsylvania that Mr Trump has behaved “like a child” throughout the crisis.

“[Trump’s] like a child who can’t believe this has happened to him — all his whining and self-pity,” said Mr Biden. “Well, this pandemic didn’t happen to him. It happened to all of us.”

He added: “And his job isn’t to whine about it. His job is to do something about it, to lead.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...2020-election-love-twitter-poll-a9587501.html

 

[Schlank]

THE BUCK STOPS NOWHERE NEAR TRUMP

Trump said he takes no responsibility for a spike in cases of people misusing disinfectants, even though he pushed the idea of injecting them as a treatment for coronavirus just last week.

When asked Monday about the increase of people in some states ingesting disinfectants Trump answered: "I can't imagine why."

When pressed about whether he takes any responsibility, Trump said, "No, I don't."

When President Truman was in the White House, his motto was "the buck stops here", basically meaning he took all responsibility for any actions taken by the White House, the armed forces or the federal government. He took responsibility for everything.

With Trump in the White House, the motto is much more like, "The buck stops nowhere near me. I'm gonna pass the buck to Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton, or Joseph Biden, or the Kurds, or the Mexicans, or the Canadians, or CNN, or anybody else I can think of, but I will never take responsibility for any of my own actions!|

Trump’s poll numbers are in free fall because his base no longer sees him as competent:

Sitting down with CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Saturday morning, Axios White House editor Margaret Talev stated that Donald Trump’s declining poll numbers can be attributed to – among other things — a large part of his voting base beginning to question whether he is up to the task of managing the COVID-19 crisis.

“The president’s re-election bid appears to be in trouble,” host Blackwell began. “A poll has President Trump 14 points behind the former Vice President Joe Biden nationally and new data from the New York Times shows the president losing by double digits in Michigan and Wisconsin. and states that helped him win in 2016.”


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/tr...nn-contributor/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Trump: "Biden's 'going to be your president because some people don't love me"


Mr Trump, who appeared to defend his administration’s actions on Covid-19, had seen Mr Biden attack him some 24 hours earlier as the American death toll passed 125,000.

The Democrat told supporters in Pennsylvania that Mr Trump has behaved “like a child” throughout the crisis.

“[Trump’s] like a child who can’t believe this has happened to him — all his whining and self-pity,” said Mr Biden. “Well, this pandemic didn’t happen to him. It happened to all of us.”

He added: “And his job isn’t to whine about it. His job is to do something about it, to lead.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...2020-election-love-twitter-poll-a9587501.html

According to White House staffers, when Trump found out that Biden had a 14 point lead over Trump, Trump threw a childish temper tantrum, where he threatened to sue the staffers who delivered the bad news to him.

 

[Schlank]

Right-wing churches have become super-spreaders of COVID-19 — but Trump still really needs them to mobilize and vote

President Donald Trump is stuck in a no-win situation.

When Trump ordered all churches reopen because they are “essential,” he made them into super-spreaders of the COVID-19.

As November approaches, he desperately needs evangelical and right-wing churches to mobilize and get him reelected. However, these churches have also become hotbeds for coronavirus outbreaks.


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/ri...ilize-and-vote/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[JackLuis]

‘Bigot. Racist. Swine’: Trump under fire for approvingly sharing video of supporter shouting ‘white power!’

President Donald Trump was excoriated Sunday morning after approvingly retweeting a video of a supporter in Florida’s Villages community shouting the racist hate slogan, “White Power.”

“If it wasn’t already clear, Trump is now openly campaigning as a white supremacist candidate,” tweeted journalist Judd Legum.

Now Donnie is channelling Geo Wallace!

“How many times does Trump have to explicitly say he’s a racist before his supporters believe him?” wondered journalist Jules Suzdaltsev.

Well, I believe!

 

[Schlank]

Trump is resorting to apocalyptic language to salvage his re-election — but it’s not working

According to a report from the New York Times, Donald Trump’s team believes the divisive language used by the president during his two July 4th weekend speeches is the key to his re-election despite polling that shows his harsh rhetoric is likely turning off voters he needs in November.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tr...working-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[Adre]

A real uplifting unifying speech that was. Keep it up BunkerBoy.

 

[KeithD]

Trump is resorting to apocalyptic language to salvage his re-election — but it’s not working

According to a report from the New York Times, Donald Trump’s team believes the divisive language used by the president during his two July 4th weekend speeches is the key to his re-election despite polling that shows his harsh rhetoric is likely turning off voters he needs in November.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tr...working-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

Happily, Trump's "only the best" hiring practices has extended to his speech writers. It's treat that Trump is doing more than anyone else to get himself ditched and off to federal prison where he belongs.

 

[LLCox]

I'm waiting for the Left to come burn my house down...

 

[Secretive_Victoria]

Republicans facing ‘tsunami’ of losses as Trump drags GOP candidates down with him

According to a report from the Washington Post, Republicans are facing massive losses in November because an increasingly unpopular Donald Trump has become an “anchor” that is dragging down fellow GOP lawmakers who will also be on the ballot.

Buffeted by a collapsed economy, due in no small part to the coronavirus pandemic that has been mismanaged by the Trump White House, Republicans are now also saddled with the president’s increasingly inflammatory rhetoric which polls show is not helping his re-election.


The Post reports that Democrats are increasingly “bullish” about not only reclaiming the White House after four years, but also believing that they will take control of the Senate and expand their majority in the House.


“Both Democratic and Republican operatives increasingly view Trump as a drag on GOP candidates in many key Senate and House races — especially in suburban areas, where polling and focus group data suggest he has been bleeding support,”


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/re...ith-him-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[KeithD]

Republicans facing ‘tsunami’ of losses as Trump drags GOP candidates down with him

According to a report from the Washington Post, Republicans are facing massive losses in November because an increasingly unpopular Donald Trump has become an “anchor” that is dragging down fellow GOP lawmakers who will also be on the ballot.

Buffeted by a collapsed economy, due in no small part to the coronavirus pandemic that has been mismanaged by the Trump White House, Republicans are now also saddled with the president’s increasingly inflammatory rhetoric which polls show is not helping his re-election.


The Post reports that Democrats are increasingly “bullish” about not only reclaiming the White House after four years, but also believing that they will take control of the Senate and expand their majority in the House.


“Both Democratic and Republican operatives increasingly view Trump as a drag on GOP candidates in many key Senate and House races — especially in suburban areas, where polling and focus group data suggest he has been bleeding support,”


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/re...ith-him-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

I'm not so sure there will be a dramatic Republican loss in positions below president in 2020. I don't underestimate the American voter's tenaciousness in sticking with party or prejudice. But every Republican loss was deserved (Romney isn't running in 2020).

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Trump stoking racist fears about suburbs because his campaign is breaking down

MSNBC’s John Heilemann said President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign was already running on fumes, with more than three months to go before the election.

The president delivered a political speech on the White House lawn, flanked by two pickup trucks, where he suggested that Joe Biden’s housing desegregation plan was an attack on white Americans.


“The subtly of the pickup trucks, the staging, subtle messaging going on there,” Heilemann told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

The racial message was hardly subtle, Heilemann said.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tr...oe-contributor/?utm_source=push_notifications

“The campaign’s breaking down,” Heilemann said. “They’re showing him polling that shows he’s bleeding out in the suburbs. Trump looks at that and says, understands how dire his political situation is, sees the suburban loss he’s suffering and says, I have to fix my situations with the suburb, that equals white. I’m going to play the race card — hey, white people, if you vote for Joe Biden you get black people showing up in your neighborhoods. This is standard 1970s, Wallace-Nixon affair — we made those comparisons in the past, but nothing quite this blatant. That’s the card he’s playing.”

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Not good news for the president in these polls. Fox News breaks down how Trump is losing reelection
Not good news for the president in these polls,” he noted.

In Pennslyvania, Trump was only receiving support for 39% of voters, while former Vice President Joe Biden was polling at 50%. Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016.


“The president has lost 3 points since April,” Baier noted.

Biden is up 51% to 39% in Minnesota, a state Hillary Clinton narrowly carried in 2016.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/no...ing-reelection/?utm_source=push_notifications

 

[allison22]

Donald Trump is turning Arizona Blue


“Trump has changed everything,” Grant Woods, the former Arizona attorney general, told me. Woods was a lifelong Republican who once served as McCain’s chief of staff, but after Trump’s election, Woods re-registered as a Democrat. He’s observed a growing gap between Republican voters and their elected officials in the party and believes that gap has been stretched further by people like Ward. If Republicans “want to double and triple down on Trumpism, then she’s perfect,” Woods said. But “she is exactly the wrong person to be the party chairman for the Republicans if they want to have a future in the state of Arizona.” (Ward did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.)

Jeff Flake, the former Arizona senator who retired in 2019, echoed Woods’s concerns. It’s “tremendously damaging,” for moderates and independents to see “virtually every Republican officeholder on stage with the president laughing at his jokes, looking at their shoes while he demeans their colleagues,” he told me. And attracting interest in the local party is difficult when the only issues discussed at precinct meetings are “the deep state or immigration or the latest conspiracy theory.”

The coronavirus pandemic has made a bad situation much worse for Republicans. Voters in poll after poll have been unimpressed by Trump’s handling of the crisis, and Republicans in Arizona have faced similar scrutiny: Cases of the virus surged after Governor Doug Ducey took early action to reopen the state in mid-May. In June, Arizona had the highest infection rate in the country. This spike in cases corresponded with a 13 percent increase in Arizonans reporting that the state was going in the wrong direction, according to OH Predictive Insights. Yet all the while, Ward, like Trump, has been encouraging opposition to stay-at-home orders, and dismissing mask wearing as “virtue signaling” on her daily live-stream. This has been a major turnoff to an important part of the Republican electorate, Flake said. “Suburban women and Millennials have been walking away from the party for a while. In many ways, they’re in a dead sprint now.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/trump-turning-arizona-blue/614572/

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

Trump has done more to damage his own presidency than the Democrats ever could

Trump and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security. What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.

“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration and is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, told The Washington Post. “To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”

Earlier this week, Anthony Fauci, the widely respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases whose reputation for honesty and integrity have been only enhanced during this crisis, admitted in congressional testimony that the United States is still not providing adequate testing for the coronavirus. “It is failing. Let’s admit it.” He added, “The idea of anybody getting [testing] easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that. I think it should be, but we’re not."

We also know the World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused, and researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials. (Doctors at the research project eventually decided to perform coronavirus tests without federal approval.)

But that’s not all. Trump reportedly ignored early warnings of the severity of the virus and grew angry at a CDC official who in February warned that an outbreak was inevitable. The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council’s global-health office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics; we’re now paying the price for that. “We worked very well with that office,” Fauci told Congress. “It would be nice if the office was still there.” We may face a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies, and hospitals may soon be overwhelmed, certainly if the number of coronavirus cases increases at a rate anything like that in countries such as Italy. (This would cause not only needless coronavirus-related deaths, but deaths from those suffering from other ailments who won’t have ready access to hospital care.)


Yet in some respects, the avalanche of false information from the president has been most alarming of all. It’s been one rock slide after another, the likes of which we have never seen. Day after day after day he brazenly denied reality, in an effort to blunt the economic and political harm he faced. But Trump is in the process of discovering that he can’t spin or tweet his way out of a pandemic. There is no one who can do to the coronavirus what Attorney General William Barr did to the Mueller report: lie about it and get away with it.

The president’s misinformation and mendacity about the coronavirus are head-snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had “shut it down” when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn’t. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear “like a miracle”; it won’t. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more.

Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. (He said that it was three weeks prior to the point at which he spoke; the actual figure was twice that.) The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting “much better” when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements an American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low.

“I like the numbers,” Trump said. “I would rather have the numbers stay where they are. But if they want to take them off, they’ll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 [cases] is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 [deaths] will be a higher number too.” (Cooler heads prevailed, and over the president’s objections, the Grand Princess was allowed to dock at the Port of Oakland.)

On and on it goes.

To make matters worse, the president delivered an Oval Office address that was meant to reassure the nation and the markets but instead shook both. The president’s delivery was awkward and stilted; worse, at several points, the president, who decided to ad-lib the teleprompter speech, misstated his administration’s own policies, which the administration had to correct. Stock futures plunged even as the president was still delivering his speech. In his address, the president called for Americans to “unify together as one nation and one family,” despite having referred to Washington Governor Jay Inslee as a “snake” days before the speech and attacking Democrats the morning after it. As The Washington Post’s Dan Balz put it, “Almost everything that could have gone wrong with the speech did go wrong.”
Taken together, this is a massive failure in leadership that stems from a massive defect in character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, shortsighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause. And he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president’s disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless; it is downright injurious.

The nation is recognizing this, treating him as a bystander “as school superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners across the country take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the president,” in the words of Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.

Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes.

The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/

Trump has done more than just damage his own administration. He's damaged the whole Republican Party. States like Arizona, Florida and Texas (normally considered Republican strongholds) are now in play. There's a very strong chance that Democrats will be taking over states in 2020 that Republicans considered to be "safe" states, where they couldn't possibly lose.

And this is Trump's fault.

Trump is dragging down the Republican Party. He's ignorant, he's reckless and he's unpopular with young voters, female voters, educated voters, veterans, military families, the intelligence community, Latino voters, public school teachers, medical doctors, nurses, African Americans, suburban voters and just about every other voting bloc you can think of.

Trump is about as popular as syphilis and with an unpopular Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, Republican candidates are at a severe disadvantage in 2020.

 

[IceDemon]

I'm waiting for the Left to come burn my house down...

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Jesus_Ateo]

Trump won’t survive exodus of Republicans fleeing him before the election

"This is a different landscape now because they’ve seen that Donald Trump is a fundamentally amoral, corrupt, indecent and loathsome human being.”

“Is it the majority of Republicans, no,” added Wilson. “But he can’t afford to lose even 3 percent or 4 percent of the Republican base or he’ll go down this fall … there are a lot of Republicans, and it’s a growing number of Republicans and conservatives and independent-leaning conservatives, who are done. They’ve had enough. They are not going to be a party to this man’s absolute failure and his absolute low — the low characters surrounding him. They’re just done.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/tr...-fleeing-him-before-the-election-rick-wilson/

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

Trump is now deathly afraid of losing to Biden and being forced to leave the White House, so now he’s proposing that we postpone the 2020 election.

 

[Schlank]

Trump is now deathly afraid of losing to Biden and being forced to leave the White House, so now he’s proposing that we postpone the 2020 election.

Secret Service director needs to prepare to remove Trump from office by force

Legal analyst and The Nation writer Elie Mystal warned that the Secret Service should prepare for the possibility they will have to remove President Donald Trump unwillingly from the White House if he loses the election.

“James Murray is the head of the United States Department of Secret Service, and at some point, it is going to be on him to save the republic,” said Mystal.


“Wait,” said host Jonathan Capehart. “Talk about that more real quick. Why him?”


“Trump is going to lose,” said Mystal. “He will have to be taken away once he loses, and the first person who can do that is the head of the Secret Service. That’s how Trump forces us to think."

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/se...-legal-analyst/?utm_source=push_notifications