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I’m female and live in a blue area in a blue state. I think Trump is doing fine in his attempt to try to pick off a few white women. This is the way to do it—he needs to act respectful of the virus instead of bored by it. They are scared of it and want to talk about it all the time. And they want a “mourner in chief.” And it is a vicious, nasty virus. They want a president who cares. He DOES have the rest of our votes in the bag.

GOP people are FAR BRAVER and more nonchalant about this virus than Dems. It’s a striking difference. And now my kids can’t go to even private school because of all the Karens.

Biden said a few days ago: “This is the school reopening plan.” It was all BS, but Trump needs to present a school reopening plan too. That’s what women want to hear about. He did today, for the first time, a bit—but it will be overshadowed by the convention news in the same presser.

"I’m female and live in a blue area in a blue state. I think Trump is doing fine in his attempt to try to pick off a few white women. This is the way to do it—he needs to act respectful of the virus instead of bored by it. They are scared of it and want to talk about it all the time. And they want a “mourner in chief.” And it is a vicious, nasty virus. They want a president who cares. He DOES have the rest of our votes in the bag."

I see women being scared of the virus in our neck of the woods too. Suburban liberal women. They put their virtue signaling signs out front and then go hide indoors until the bad orange man and scary virus go away. I don't know that many can be influenced to vote R, but maybe a few will be put off by the protests enough to consider it.

Exactly. The virus is “THE” issue to people outside of the cozy confines of Free Republic. It’s pretty much all anyone talks about outside of FR.

Just like the infamous “it’s the economy, stupid”..just substitute virus for economy.

I know we love to bash polls and they have indeed been totally wrong in the past..but outside of polls, what I’m hearing from friends and neighbors - NOT POLLS - is that our side is in huge trouble this time around - in large part because of Trump’s handling of the virus, which something like 68% of people allegedly see as being not good.

And while we’re talking polls, Fox News just had a battleground poll out this afternoon that shows us getting totally whallopped in MI, PA and MN. Yeah, I know..but just about EVERY poll is showing huge margins at this point - and we can’t go all ostrich mode on them and pretend they don’t exist or are just heavily skewed Dem..

Trump’s best chance to turn things around is if we get debates. Short of that..things aren’t looking great, and a big part of why is DJT’s handling of the virus.

About a school reopening plan...that's a no-go with many mothers of schoolchildren. In my family alone, six mothers have decided to homeschool for the next school year! This took me by surprise, because all had previously been adamantly opposed to homeschooling. They live in five different states , all with varying rates of covid. My daughter, on the board of her children's school, announced it to me today. When I asked her first grader what he thought about it, he did the Happy Dance all up and down my livingroom!😻💃🇺🇸 My granddaughter, the School Nurse at her boys' school decided two weeks ago to homeschool. Her in-laws have pitched in to do the job, as she still has to work at the school. . Not to brag, but all my girls are very strong, intelligent, sensible women, and not led by social media. I am fine with their decisions. Relieved, really.