According to a bombshell report from Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller with the Associated Press, officials with Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign have all but given up on salvaging the current president’s approval ratings with the American public. Donald’s ratings have significantly tanked over the last handful of weeks and have never been higher than 50 percent since the beginning of his presidency.
According to the report, campaign officials have all but tossed in the towel when it comes to getting those numbers back up and now putting all their chips in on lowering Biden’s approval numbers instead.
Sources close to Trump recently noted that the White House spent the weekend “scrambling” to figure this thing out as internal polls showed Donald taking a huge loss against Biden, which caused quite a bit of grief for Trump.
The AP reporters write, “The president, West Wing advisers, and campaign aides have grown increasingly concerned about his reelection chances as they’ve watched Trump’s standing take a pummeling first on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and now during a nationwide wave of protests against racial injustice. His allies worry the president has achieved something his November foe had been unable to do: igniting enthusiasm in a Democratic Party base that’s been lukewarm to former Vice President Joe Biden.”
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“Internal campaign surveys and public polling showed a steady erosion in support for Trump among older people and in battleground states once believed to be leaning decisively in the president’s direction, according to six current and former campaign officials not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations,” the report continues. “The campaign recently launched a television ad blitz in Ohio, a state the president carried by 8 percentage points four years ago, and it sees trouble in Arizona and warning signs in once-deep-red Georgia.”
As Trump’s approval ratings continue to rapidly swirl down the drain, operatives for his campaign have turned their focus to dragging Biden down rather than the nearly impossible task of lifting Trump up. However, according to one Biden advisor, their plan isn’t working out well.
Biden campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo stated, “The Trump campaign keeps calling the same play, talking a big game and then getting smoked on the field. The Trump Campaign and their Super PAC have spent nearly $20 million attacking Biden since April 1, and they have watched Trump steadily decline in the polls.”
To add to Trump’s sorrows, he’s currently facing the inability to get out there on the campaign trail and fire up his base with his racist, ridiculous rallies in key states, where Trump personally feels he’s most effective — thanks to that whole pandemic and all.
However, aides to the president are concerned that attempting to hold rallies amid such national upset would result in sparsely attended events that would only serve to hurt Donald’s image even further.
“Trump has been hankering for a return to his old mainstay, so much so that he yanked the public-facing parts of the Republican National Convention from North Carolina, casting doubt on millions of dollars of commitments and more than a year of planning. Now the boring business of the convention will remain in Charlotte, but the celebratory aspects will shift to a to-be-determined city that will allow Trump to put on the show he desires,” the AP report reads. “While Trump has demanded that the campaign prepare to schedule rallies as soon as the summer, aides have cautioned that it could be risky to fill an arena — creating the potential for negative news stories if the virus were found to have spread at a campaign event. And that is if they could even persuade the requisite crowds to gather before there is a vaccine.”
When your team has all but given up on you and is now just hoping and praying they can make the other guy look bad — you’re in pretty big trouble, mister.
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