Posted on 04/01/2020 10:57:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Across the country, the coronavirus has sickened more than 150,000 people, cost millions their jobs and tanked the stock market. Yet the president’s approval ratings are as high as they have ever been, despite what most agree to be his slow performance dealing with the crisis, as well as his record of falsehoods about the virus, his propensity to push ideas and treatments that contradict expert advice, and his habit of lashing out at governors on the front lines.
While public perceptions are fluid in a crisis, a notable twist in polling at this point is that independents are driving Trump’s bump in approval, and some increased Democratic support is a factor as well. Gallup called that “highly unusual for Trump” in reporting its latest survey, which was released last week and showed Trump’s approval rating at 49%, equal to the best of his presidency.
While Republicans’ views of Trump were flat, approval by independents rose by 8 percentage points from early March, while Democratic approval was up by 6 percentage points.
“There are people who haven’t even heard Trump that much, while the rest of us have been obsessed,” said Matt Grossmann, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. “Those people are paying attention and seeing Trump a lot.”
Kathleen Mathien, an independent in Maricopa County, Arizona, said that she did not vote for Trump, but that her opinion of him had risen during his White House appearances to talk about the virus.
“He’s not one to be bullied,” she said, adding that she also saw flashes of empathy, a trait many critics find lacking in Trump.
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short answer: A lot more than there were before he started doing these daily press conferences.
Possibly people such as myself who want answers that hardcore critics have that would actually work.
Someone remind the NYT to stop wasting ink and thought cause they could have summed it all up in one word: “Deplorables.”
GG. /s
People like me who are hated by the elitist know-it-all leftists in the media.
“...despite what most agree to be his slow performance dealing with the crisis”
Or to be more clear - “what most of the pompous liberal a-holes working at the New York Times agree...:
The media is a victim of their own attacks. The media is loathsome. They have set themselves up in a situation of them v. Trump. Even if some are on the fence on Trump they would rather side with him than the media.
“she also saw flashes of empathy, a trait many critics find lacking in Trump.”
Trump is very empathetic except for the leftists, so they project that, as they do everything else.
Basically, independents and definitely the lefties who consume their news through the slanted MSM and left-leaning cable “news” networks were receiving a very filtered view of the President. The press conferences got a lot of coverage without the chance for the punditry and narrative pushing.
This is the reason why Don Lemon was calling them equivalent to a Trump Rally. This guy knows it’s nothing like a political rally, but he views it like one because they both have one factor in common; that is that guys like him can’t pick and chose how to show Trump and how to frame the conversation about him when the whole thing is being aired live and without breaks.
Trump is gracious and magnanimous in that he is working closely with and handing out praise to elected Democrats WHO WERE CALLING HIM HITLER JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO.
Believe me, America is noticing.
“There are people who haven’t even heard Trump that much, while the rest of us have been obsessed,” said Matt Grossmann, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. …Michael Des Barres and Holly Knight – Obsession
Apparently the virus cures TDS in many people.
Imagine obama in the same situation, with identical treatment from the media.
Slow performance?? He had the CDC screening travelers while the WHO was still saying it couldn’t be transmitted person to person!
Higher IQ types
The way CNN's Jim Acosta behaved himself yesterday is living proof Zucker knows the TDS white house press corpse ain't playing well outside the beltway.
They are Deplorable, and damned proud of it
Those who once were blind but now can see.
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