No ‘silver lining’: Trump faces voter backlash amid crises

[signalmankenneth]

And Trump should face voter backlash too, his lack of leadership, his disastrous handling of the corona virus crisis, and his childish and divisive behavior?!! Let's not forget the great recession too?!!

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — At the end of one of his most turbulent weeks in office, President Donald Trump was eager on Friday to boast of a better than expected jobs report to argue the country is poised for a booming recovery. Benjamin Lund was not moved.

The 45-year-old Milwaukee man is a longtime Republican who was raised in a conservative family in the political battleground of Wisconsin. At the onset of 2020, he had little doubt that he would support Trump’s reelection.

Then the pandemic hit and Lund lost his restaurant job. A processing backlog meant he went two months without unemployment benefits. He later watched with dismay Trump’s hard-line response to the police killing of George Floyd and the civil unrest that followed.

Lund, who is white, now plans to vote a straight Democratic ticket and rejects any effort by Trump to put a “silver lining” on the nation’s pain.

“The people living the economic reality of what’s soon to be a recession, it’s a very different set of numbers,” Lund said. “It’s almost, in a sense, disrespectful to try and put a positive spin on where we are as a nation right now.”

That’s a stinging warning sign for Trump in a state that’s crucial to his bid to keep the White House. Though the president would rather voters focus on an unemployment situation that’s less catastrophic than some economists predicted, Trump’s whipsaw ways are colliding with a pandemic and civil unrest of a scale the country has not seen since the 1960s.

With five months until the election, Trump has time to solidify his standing. But some Republicans fear voters are simply worn out by Trump.

“People are just so disgusted with how things are,” said Republican strategist Terry Sullivan, who managed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign. “Even the most die-hard Trump supporters are exhausted.”

https://apnews.com/b76298ac41ccd8f66f579780bddd8a43

[Trumpet]

‘Awful news for Republican Senate candidates’: Odds of GOP holding Senate collapsing over support for Trump

According to an analysis by Politico’s Jeff Greenfield, recent voting trends combined with Donald Trump’s unpopularity with the electorate will likely see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lose his power following the November election.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/awf...ort-for-trump/

[PoliTalker]

Hello signalmankenneth,

Thanks for this inspiring thread.

And Trump should face voter backlash too, his lack of leadership, his disastrous handling of the corona virus crisis, and his childish and divisive behavior?!! Let's not forget the great recession too?!!

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — At the end of one of his most turbulent weeks in office, President Donald Trump was eager on Friday to boast of a better than expected jobs report to argue the country is poised for a booming recovery. Benjamin Lund was not moved.

The 45-year-old Milwaukee man is a longtime Republican who was raised in a conservative family in the political battleground of Wisconsin. At the onset of 2020, he had little doubt that he would support Trump’s reelection.

Then the pandemic hit and Lund lost his restaurant job. A processing backlog meant he went two months without unemployment benefits. He later watched with dismay Trump’s hard-line response to the police killing of George Floyd and the civil unrest that followed.

Lund, who is white, now plans to vote a straight Democratic ticket and rejects any effort by Trump to put a “silver lining” on the nation’s pain.

“The people living the economic reality of what’s soon to be a recession, it’s a very different set of numbers,” Lund said. “It’s almost, in a sense, disrespectful to try and put a positive spin on where we are as a nation right now.”

That’s a stinging warning sign for Trump in a state that’s crucial to his bid to keep the White House. Though the president would rather voters focus on an unemployment situation that’s less catastrophic than some economists predicted, Trump’s whipsaw ways are colliding with a pandemic and civil unrest of a scale the country has not seen since the 1960s.

With five months until the election, Trump has time to solidify his standing. But some Republicans fear voters are simply worn out by Trump.

“People are just so disgusted with how things are,” said Republican strategist Terry Sullivan, who managed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign. “Even the most die-hard Trump supporters are exhausted.”

https://apnews.com/b76298ac41ccd8f66f579780bddd8a43

Let's hope there are a LOT more like him...

It is just TERRIBLE that the country has to get SO BAD before people are moved to admit how bad this pretender leader-wannabe is.

[T. A. Gardner]

The problem with this sign is obvious. The person is not a Republican and is a fool. The former because when you start editorializing by saying you are in one party or another and then attack the party you are supposedly in, it's almost always a sure sign you are an agent provocateur and lying. With the later, I sum up the upcoming choices for President this way.

Biden is the crazy, senile, uncle you don't invite to the family reunion and never, ever, let near your kids. He's the sort of character Randy Quaid played in National Lampoon's Vacation movie.





On the other hand, Trump is a bloviating braggard, and world-class internet troll. But he's also he's also filthy rich beyond belief so you tolerate him because however he did it it's helping you get a little bit more too. Besides, you don't want to be cut out of his will... Sure, you don't trust him as far as you can throw him, and you find his personality kind of vile, but at least he isn't an unstable, child molester with dementia....



It makes you kind of wonder what the leaders to our political parties are thinking and why we can't do better for candidates... Doesn't it?

[PoliTalker]

Hello Trumpet,

‘Awful news for Republican Senate candidates’: Odds of GOP holding Senate collapsing over support for Trump

According to an analysis by Politico’s Jeff Greenfield, recent voting trends combined with Donald Trump’s unpopularity with the electorate will likely see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lose his power following the November election.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/awf...ort-for-trump/

AWESOME!

[archives]

Should be interesting come August/September if the unemployment numbers are still in or close to double digits.

According to Trump the economy is on the upswing, so unless it keeps adding jobs like it did in this report it will appear it has stalled, and Trump won’t be able to hit the Rose Garden boasting about “best in history, biggest of any President, no one has ever seen anything like it,” and the usual superlatives we are used to him using

Of course it will be someone else’s fault, but he is the incumbent this time, not the outsider, no populism here, it is his policies that will be judged

[Trumpet]

Fox News poll spells doom for GOP in Arizona

A new Fox News poll of registered voters in the Grand Canyon State shows Democrat Mark Kelly miles ahead of Republican Sen. Martha McSally — 50% to 37% — with 8% undecided.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/fox...op-in-arizona/

[John Barron]

All around my little rural area the Trump signs are now mostly gone. Very few remain. People are starting to see what a joke Trump really is.