President Trump Hits 51% Approval in Rasmussen Poll – Higher Than Obama at Same Point in Presidency

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In the face of a handful of polls in recent weeks showing President Donald Trump the underdog against Joe Biden, momentum is beginning to turn around.

After having him trailing Biden by double digits in early July, a week ago Rasmussen Reports had the race as basically even, with Biden leading 47%-45%, which is within the poll’s margin of error.

Of note, Rasmussen was among the closest mainstream pollster in approximating the popular vote in the 2016 election. Rasmussen had Hillary Clinton up 1.7 points over Trump on election day 2016, while she ended up winning the popular vote by 2.1 points above him (48.2% vs. 46.1%). The Real Clear Politics average of polls had Hillary up for six points. Unlike the other polls, Rasmussen correctly saw Trump had a path to victory in the electoral college.

Now, after falling to a pandemic low of 42% approval, Trump’s approval has since rebounded to 51%, or seven percentage points above where Barack Obama’s approval stood at the same stages of their presidency.


 
This comes in light of an unprecedented media onslaught since the minute Trump declared his candidacy for President.

During his first hundred days in office, 89% of network coverage of the Trump presidency was negative.

For the entire year of 2018, coverage was 90% negative.

During the recent impeachment hysteria (which already feels like ancient history), media bias maxed out with 100% negative coverage.

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I am sure CNN/TIME did,nt take these polls theira ll too busy pushing for Biden like all leftists liberal journalists are

So, if Trump was running against Barack Obama, and if the current date was August 3, 2012, and if I knew precisely what total approval meant, then… a blind squirrel might have finally found an acorn??

@Greg: It’s merely showing that Trump is more successful and more popular than Obama was, at this point in his Presidency. This poll has “Approve/disapprove, Strongly approve/disapprove” metrics, so “total” is both. Don’t play daft.

And..these polls are still horribly biased to the Left.

So…

Trump wins the Popular Vote and EC in November, handily.

I guess abolishing police and exterminating black children didn’t go so well for the Democrat “platform”.

You and your ilk are a small minority, and shrinking every day.

Apparently no one else wanted to actually check and see what the final weeks poll numbers were for Clinton and Trump
RCP had Clinton ahead by 3.2%
I mean why bother to check numbers that Curt gives if you WANT to believe them ?

The socialist dims are screwed. The only thing biden is “looking forward to” is a nap.

#1 Polls indicate that black support for President Trump is anywhere from 30% to 40%. If that is true, game over.

#2 About 5 million people have bought guns for the first time. But the dims propose that “gun control” is a winner.

#3 80% of the country is “concerned” about the rocketing crime rate. EIGHTY PER CENT. But the dims are promoting “abolish the police, send in the social workers” and encouraging the riots. And they are also so insane they think this is a winning strategy.

And this little tidbit, Trader Joes who had recently said they would review their product “names” in an effort to remove “insensitive” references, has now said they will keep their existing business plan with no changes.

Is there a single 2016 Trump voter who has changed their mind?

Not likely

There are several life long Dems who are NOT voting for biden.

Dan Bongino has a source who said he’s aware of people that are around biden “socks on to socks off” time and he’s not all there much of the time. All in all it’s a very quick decline.

biden is not mentally fit to be POTUS, period full stop.

@Greg: Trump was not polled compared to Obama; this is Trump’s overall approval, compared to Obama’s at the same time. Note that while Obama had 95% positive media support, Trump gets 95% negative media coverage, so just imagine what his support would be if the media was not shilling for Biden and Democrats. Apparently, a lot of people are learning what the media is actually up to and basing their opinions on what they see instead of what some liars tell them.

Oh… and there’s this. It is reported Strzok is flipping on his fellow conspirators. If true (and it probably is, because Strzok is a cowardly worm), the dominoes will begin falling. You think Brennan is going to take the bad gas for Obama?

@Deplorable Me: Haha…cue greg’s usual Rudy “mountain of evidence” stock response.

It’s coming.

@John: I don’t know who you are talking to. “No one” seems to be almost everyone here at FA who has routinely cited the poll numbers running up to Hillary’s loss.

You get the heart of it, though. “Wanting to believe” is what the polls are for, specifically to manufacture Democrat support that isn’t there. It might intimidate Conservatives to not vote, or get the shrinking Dem base to get excited and get more votes.

“Indoctrination by Polls” failed at the last election, and it’s pathetic to watch the Left still clinging to this broken and disingenuous tactic.

I know Trump has the majority of support because I read, widely, and I talk to people, widely.

It’s going to be an epic win for Trump, and most Republicans.

@Nathan Blue:

“Wanting to believe” is what the polls are for, specifically to manufacture Democrat support that isn’t there. It might intimidate Conservatives to not vote, or get the shrinking Dem base to get excited and get more votes.

They are to encourage more contributions to Democrats. Showing the facts would discourage contributions to a lost or losing cause. Money, money, money, money. Their poor agenda is why it cost Hillary a billion dollars to lose.

It’s still going to come down to how honest the election can remain.

@Nathan Blue: Then along comes AJ to prove your point.

@Deplorable Me: Yup. He didn’t even read my post.

He’s going to be sad in November, for sure.

@Ronald J. Ward: You’d better brace yourself now, little guy. You’re in the minority, and most Americans support Trump over Biden.

The odds of Trump’s indictment for bank fraud and tax evasion might be better than the odds of his reelection.

@Greg: No, you need evidence for your indictments. The evidence that he needs to be reelected is not only far stronger but actually exists.

Communist china owns biden

@Greg: Good one, bro.

I’m glad you finally understand that Trump is going to win.

Trump is trending downward again. Tuesdsy down 2%
Now below Obama’s
Was this “tie” a fluke?

@John: Not a fluke, merely proof that the polls are worthless.

Trump wins the Popular vote and EC in November.

@Nathan Blue:
As always, you make asinine statement not ground in facts or substantiated in any way- simply because you, a regular source of disinformation on a daily Trump worshiping (or Dem hating) blog, wants things to be that way. Polls are irrelevant unless they go your way and the soaring virus and crumbling economy won’t play a roll, if in your mind, they exist at all. The all out panic of Trump and the R senate must be, I assume, a hoax?

Elections to people other than you are hard to predict but if you want to ignore the realities that people don’t hate Biden as they did Hillary, that Rs are more apt to stay at home, the Evangelists and suburbanites have soured on Trump, workers have grown to feel back-stabbed (how bout them postal workers?), and the 20,000 + documented lies to the people from Trump, perhaps you might think that just maybe those Vegas bookies could possibly be on to something.

@Ronald J. Ward: Ah…rabid, and almost unintelligible, as always Ron/AJ. But let’s unpack your dumpster fire:

You hate Trump, irrationally. You are part of a Left-wing Cult. I am not. I voted for Trump because I thought his policies were better and his ability to carry them out would be better than HRC and her policies. I think the same about Biden.

I would, and have, voted for Democrats. I’m voting for some Democrats here in my home state, this November.

You only care about the polls when they confirm your bias. That’s a fact. I don’t put stock in polls, even when they support my cause.

The all out panic of Trump and the R senate must be, I assume, a hoax?

Uh…no, your partisan biased opinion isn’t “fact”. You only get your info from Left-wing propaganda sites. They tell you that it’s really the Trumps supporters who are indoctrinated one-sided information clowns..while they indoctrinated you with the same claimed methods.

Why Trump wins:

The vast majority of voters oppose the following Democrat policies:
1. Defunding police.
2. Supporting Rioters
3. Hoaxes against a lawfully elected President.
4. Re-segregation.

The massacre of blacks in the wake of a Democrat supported wave of crime cost them any hope of the election.

These movements are real:
1. Blexit
2. #walkaway
3. Police and Police Unions Shifting to support Republicans when they once supported Democrats.

I could go on and on. The facts are mounted that Trump has vast support. Biden does not.

Rabid nutbags like you have to cling to “polls” because you know, deep down, you’re going to lose this one.

Better to think ahead to 2024. I’d vote Democrat, if they can rebuild their party, have an actual platform, and field a viable candidate.

@Nathan Blue:
There’s a few things wrong with your assessment.

You speak of huge numbers of people turning from Democrats because of the fabricated conspiracy theories you mentioned. Where did you get these numbers? Poll? Tucker Carson? Your own personal observation from speaking with people all over the country? Saw it on a bathroom stall?

You pretend that I’ve based my assessment conclusively on polls while ignoring the numerous varibles I mentioned, rendering your argument both intellectually dishonest as well as intellectually lazy.

But this is what’s to be expected and has come to be the norm of the few still sniffing Trump butt.

@Ronald J. Ward: Here’s the thing about polls, and I have stated this before. With the media protection and promotion of Obama, I wondered why he didn’t have a 99% approval. Likewise, with the 94% negative coverage of Trump, if he gets 30% approval, that’s like 75% approval; 51% is amazing.

Unless this can be shown to, like most other polls that oversample Democrats, to have weighted their findings towards the right, you had best take notice, Scooter.

Biden refuses to debate. He refuses to be interviewed by Chris Wallace (or anyone else that won’t provide the questions and answers ahead of time). Biden refuses to go out in public. Now he refuses to give his “acceptance” speech at the convention. Is that what you want in a President, a Punxsutawney Joe that stays hidden in his basement and when he comes out and sees his shadow, it means 6 more months of bad decisions? Trump has done a GREAT job. Admit it.

@Nathan Blue:

A couple of other things AJ/Ward is ignoring:

the Trump campaign is registering more voters in states where there is party declaration than the Democrats

and

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/opinions/swing-voters-midwest-trump-support-thau/index.html

I know lots of people who are being surveyed and when asked who they will vote for, the tell the surveyor they are voting for Biden but they are all solid Trump supporters. And Beto Butthead is sending Republicans emails asking people who they will vote for. I got one and responded: BIDEN. Haven’t heard back from them, I guess they consider me a lock solid D vote so why bother.

Runaway Train of Thought (or, When Does a Mannerism Become a Symptom?)

bidens cognitive decline is accelerating on a daily basis. His mental capability is not sufficient to be potus

@Ronald J. Ward:

You speak of huge numbers of people turning from Democrats because of the fabricated conspiracy theories you mentioned.

Please go visit those fabricated graves filled with those fabricated coffins with those fabricated bodies. While you’re at it, scrub off the fabricated graffiti. Find the original video of Nick Cannon’s, since him saying *White People are closer to animals” was obviously fabricated by a Trump supporter. Please show me how the failed Democrat responses to both covid and law enforcement were fabricated.

Gay Hairdressers and other LGBTs – #walkaway.
NYC Bodega owners – oppose the boycott of Goya
Blacks painting over the silly BLM banner in NYC
Highest number of blacks say they approve of Trump
ZERO Energy for Biden. No signs, no endorsements, he can’t even go on TV without showing he’s unfit.
Media ignoring the Latino community, suddenly..I wonder why? Oh, I know.

Conspiracy theories? Or on tape for all to see. Uh oh! You don’t get to “fabricate” your own set of disinformational facts anymore…

You pretend that I’ve based my assessment conclusively on polls

You have. That’s all you ever cite. You want to believe you are part of the majority, but you know now that that “majority” doesn’t exist. It’s fallen into Marxism, and you have zero facts, data, or arguments to make that don’t fall flat immediately.

My argument? Trump will win, in a landslide, in November. We need only wait until then. It’s not about people loving Trump. It’s about them finally rejecting the Left, or whatever you want to call this current China-bought Democrat Party bent on destroying our government and legal system from the inside.

But please, keep yapping. I enjoy verbally pissing in your mouth and watching you choke on your own stupidity.

@Greg:

Runaway Train of Thought (or, When Does a Mannerism Become a Symptom?)

Trump still makes more sense than Biden, and now has a strong track record now. I’d choose Trump over Biden if I wanted a President that has proven they can build an economy. (please shove your standard “debt” Democrat-propaganda line up your ass).

The Vid above is clear: Biden is a sputtering old man who can’t think.

President Trump is doing the live china virus press conference today in a blue suit with a lavender tie.
He really looks great in those colors!

Meanwhile Biden got a mere 176 viewers on his “townhall” on the “Latinx” vote.
The word is Latino.
Not Latinx.
Male Hispanics take gender very seriously.
They don’t care to be neutered – even by use of language.
Biden has lost their support.

Now Biden asked a black man, who is successful in media, “are you a junkie?” Then he confused Trump acing the cognitive test with CNN’s Don Lemon failing it, live on TV.

Biden can’t go gaffe free for two minutes.
No way he can debate.
What happens in the polls after that?

@Nathan Blue:

I agree that we have a profound cultural breakdown in our society and I agree there has been violence and death as a result (which seems to be your main premise as to why Trump will win).

What I don’t agree with is the unhinged blame game the rabid right has indoctrinated (or you are abetting) of Democrats. I personally blame Trump as he has not only fanned these racial flames from the beginning but has instigated it to new levels. Another point I disagree with is your perception of the general public’s views on who to blame. Again, I really don’t know where or how you come up with you vague numbers.

You pretend that I’ve based my assessment conclusively on polls

You have. That’s all you ever cite.

Well, no. My words are right here on this page and I mentioned the popularity of Biden vrs Hillary, the disappointment from Evangelists, suburbanites, and workers and the “stay at home” factor. I mentioned Trump’s excess of 20K lies to the voters and I even mentioned Las Vegas odds. Of course the big issue I mentioned is that COVID19 is now exploding out of control and it’s taking the economy with it which is a huge player on an election. He even said today that schools can reopen because the virus is going away which is standard Trump bullshit. These are people who have kids getting on those buses. From what I’ve seen, heard, and read, they aren’t buying it. And I’ve previously mentioned his failures on infrastructure, the huge campaign funding discrepancies which are open to the public and I’ve even mentioned top donors dropping Trump.

Okay so how do I know that these things are dragging Trump and Rs down unless I rely on the polls? How do you know that Trump’s a shoe in? Gut feeling? You wan’t say. You can’t say. Your only function is to be a Trump turd shiner.

@retire05:

the Trump campaign is registering more voters in states where there is party declaration than the Democrats

and

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/opinions/swing-voters-midwest-trump-support-thau/index.html

I generally don’t agree with you on any front but kudos for at least bringing 1 coherent argument. Yes, the Trump campaign is registering more voters in certain areas which is indicative of success. It’s a valid argument. Is it concrete conclusiveness of a Trump landslide? No but it does at least make a case of Trump’s efforts and ultimate victory.

For whatever reason, Nathan comes up short in ever giving any rationale for his claims.

As for your CNN link, I have 2 points. 1 is that it’s rather misleading as the article focused more on Trump’s hardcore supporters-those that haven’t turned on him’ rather than the numbers of his overall support, or even if he’s picked up any new.
The 2nd point is, why does CNN suddenly have credibility when you can twist an article to your liking when all other reports are automatically dismissed as fake news or bias?

@Ronald J. Ward:

I personally blame Trump as he has not only fanned these racial flames from the beginning but has instigated it to new levels.

How?

@Deplorable Me:

I personally blame Trump as he has not only fanned these racial flames from the beginning but has instigated it to new levels.

How?

Wait.

@Ronald J. Ward: No, how about now? You constantly base your lies on this accusation so you must have the evidence very handy. Just reveal it. Or, just admit the obvious; you are a liar. A response without your evidence will say just that.

@Deplorable Me:

“No, how about now? ”

No. You said you’d wait. Do it.

@Ronald J. Ward:

Yes, the Trump campaign is registering more voters in certain areas which is indicative of success. It’s a valid argument. Is it concrete conclusiveness of a Trump landslide? No

I never said it was conclusiveness of a Trump landslide, now did I? I don’t think this election will be a landslide, one way or the other. I am surprised, however, that the Democrat Party would allow Biden, who is clearly diminished mentally, to even take the nomination.

why does CNN suddenly have credibility when you can twist an article to your liking when all other reports are automatically dismissed as fake news or bias?

How did I twist the article? Is now simply providing a link, without comment, twisting? As to the correctness of the CNN article; even a broken clock is right twice a day.

@Ronald J. Ward: You think Biden is popular, and Trump is fanning racial flames

Based on those two idiotic claims you really aren’t serious about any of this.

You’re indoctrinated by the Left. I am open and free thinking. Your projection is predictable and easy to counter, time and time again.

The thing that shows you to be a weak individual is your need for off-the-shelf certainty. Polls, headlines, etc.

I wonder who you’re going to blame when Trump wins the election, what off the shelf answers your left-wing media is going to give you… About how stupid everyone else is and how you are the only enlightened one and how racist Trump is and how popular Biden SHOULD be…

Pathetic.

The ideologies you support are getting people killed. Again, if you can be swindled into thinking Trump is racist, you really aren’t mature enough to handle the burden of being able to vote. Tyrants rely on the easily influenced and useless members of society like you.

@Ronald J. Ward: No I didn’t. But, thanks for your confirmation that you are a liar. As if anyone doubted.

@retire05:

I am surprised, however, that the Democrat Party would allow Biden, who is clearly diminished mentally, to even take the nomination.

Who do you think appeals most to the majority of their constituents, who are themselves of diminished mental capacity? Why, someone that is themselves mentally deficient. That way the constituents can feel mentally equal to their leader.

@Nathan Blue:

I wonder who you’re going to blame when Trump wins the election, what off the shelf answers your left-wing media is going to give you

Just like last time. Someone stole the election. They can’t accept reality; they need a reason to keep their hatred stoked because the LIVE on hate.

@Ronald J. Ward: Biden is not popular…at all.

From 4th of July American on another post:

Joe Rogan: Biden Mentally Compromised, People Uncomfortable With That…

Joe Rogan on Joe Biden:

“I believe there is also a large group of people that are very uncomfortable with a man who seems to be mentally compromised winning the election and doing so by hiding.” pic.twitter.com/eEyCrZaGD2

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 5, 2020

@Nathan Blue:

I never claimed Biden is popular, just not as unpopular as Hillary, who lost to the most unpopular candidate in presidential history.

Yes, you spin reality which is nothing new.

You again ignore the other varibles including Trump’s profound if not criminal failure on COVID as well as the economy returning to previous Republican controlled scorched earth status.

“It’s the economy stupid” is a powerful reality in elections, something you either don’t want to discuss or are in denial of it.

@Ronald J. Ward:

You again ignore the other varibles including Trump’s profound if not criminal failure on COVID as well as the economy returning to previous Republican controlled scorched earth status.

I keep hearing the left state this so here is my question; what would you have done differently taking into consideration American citizen’s Constitutionally guaranteed rights?

@Ronald J. Ward:

“It’s the economy stupid” is a powerful reality in elections, something you either don’t want to discuss or are in denial of it.

We agree on that, so…

…in the wake of COVID, which destroyed our economy due to shutdown, not Presidential performance, who would you trust to rebuild the economy?

1. Trump – Has just objectively built a strong economy pre-COVD, your pathetic partisan statements to the contrary aside (and ignored).

Or…

2. Biden – Defund police, Green New Deal (with what money?), and losing every labor union over time. Racist in that he’s picking a black woman for Veep, and has opening said what he would have done as President during covid…which pretty much mirrors what Trump ACTUALLY did.

Yeah, it’s no contest. That Trump has flaws is a given. Biden’s flaws and failure to show anything over 40 years is why people won’t vote for him.

You’re being a bit of a vulture, claiming now the Trump “tanked” the economy. Only partisan hacks who were pissed about his roaring economy prior to covid are now pretending Trump did it. It’s disingenuous, and childish.

I think Trump will do better than Biden as President for the next four years.

Prove me wrong. Not your silly rabid Trump derangement..but rather tell me how Biden will do better based on facts…not conjecture, not opinions.

Prove me wrong.

Trump’s success record for these first fours years is long, and impressive. I just don’t see what Biden has to bring to the table.

@Nathan Blue:

“1. Trump – Has just objectively built a strong economy pre-COVD, your pathetic partisan statements to the contrary aside (and ignored).”

That’s just pure bullshit and has no relationship with reality. It’s something the Trump campaign says but it’s just another lie.

Your opinion of Trump being a better president is irrelevant to the argument of electability, as is mine. Your defending his handling of the virus and economy is expected but it’s a reality of what’s happened under his leadership.

Polls, by the way are indeed a realistic barometer even as we know, aren’t foolproof. Regardless, for you to continue to insist that Trump and the GOP have the political winds at their backs is just blind ignorance, if not intentionally misleading.

@Ronald J. Ward: So you reject the challenge?

I don’t offer opinions that Trump would be the better president. It’s fact, and the facts are clear.

You still fail to provide us with any reason that Joe Biden would be a better president than Donald Trump.

It’s a simple question, though one you just can’t seem to answer.

All you offer is a pinion and conjecture and emotion. Hating Trump is not a reason not to vote for him I’m afraid.

Please provide me a detailed list of by Joe Biden would be a better president than Donald Trump. Not silly opinions, not rabid derangement, not conjecture.

Why would Biden be the better choice first president during the next four years?

Your inability to answer this disgusts me. Even more disgusting is that you will pretend to be surprised the day after the election when Trump wins both the popular vote and the EC.

@Nathan Blue:

You’re being a bit of a vulture, claiming now the Trump “tanked” the economy.

Kind of lends credence to the accusation that the left does everything it can to keep the economy tanked (riots, left wing protests which spreads the virus, inaccurate reporting which exaggerates the virus, then demanding the economy remain closed for an extended period of time) and blame it all on Trump, doesn’t it? After all, only a total idiot would not see that the “science” called for shutting down a totally healthy and vibrant economy which for that reason and that reason ONLY suffered a downturn.

Prove me wrong. Not your silly rabid Trump derangement..but rather tell me how Biden will do better based on facts…not conjecture, not opinions.

Keep in mind that out measure of success and AJ’s is totally different. We believe keeping citizens safe, good jobs, a growing economy, economic opportunity, a stronger US and a safer world is a measure of success. They believe unlimited illegal immigration (which threatens civic safety and the economy), a flaccid economy based on service industry jobs, making the US weaker (so we no longer oppress people) and making the US subservient to a socialistic world government is “success”. Who do you think is best equipped to deliver their “success”?

@Deplorable Me: The spirit of both Ron/AJ’s posts are prone to violence.

He think Trump sucks. I think Biden sucks. That really should be the end of this discussion.

What he seems to miss is how naked his desire his desire is to exterminate my own preferences and opinions.

If he just keeps talking and keeps telling everyone a wrong they are, they will quit. That’s what Marxism is: Violent domination buy a small group of people using a large mob of have-nots.

I think AJ is inherently dangerous, and one step away from being the idiot people you see on TV destroying statues and standing in front of cars. He is truly rabid while he calls you rabid.

When Trump wins, you’re going to see beta males like Ron/AJ take to the streets for a very brief moment. It’s then that the more mature and responsible parts of our population will be there in the street as well, quietly waiting.

At the end of the day, Ron/AJ doesn’t respect my opinion, my vote, my sovereignty as an individual, or even my humanity.

He wants to “win”, and he will only feel that that has happened once blood has been spilled.

The Trump administration juiced a recovered economy with massive high-end tax cuts, having no workable plan to make up for the resultant revenue loss. Instead of a plan, Republicans once again pitched the crack-brained assertion that “tax cuts pay for themselves”. Successfully selling that fallacy promptly returned us to trillion-dollar-a-year federal deficits, even with a doped economy. Instead of dealing with this, we were told that deficits no longer matter.

The stimulus effect of unsustainable tax cuts alone wasn’t deemed sufficient to produce the sort of economic binge they wanted, so they continued the emergency measure of forcing the Fed’s interest rates down. Instead of slowly and prudently raising rates as would normally be done following a recovery from recession, they pushed rates even lower. This has had the effect of robbing traditional savers of any interest, making the traditional virtue of saving a negative cash flow proposition. It simultaneously redirected money into the stock market to sustain a dangerous bubble. Slashing capital gain tax rates allowed the wealthiest individuals and corporations to profit enormously.

All of the foregoing left us highly vulnerable to any economic downturn that might predictably come along. Instead of the predictable, however, we got COVID-19, which has been handled with no more competence than anything else. This has all the makings of another Republican train wreck.

Now the only guiding principle is doing whatever must be done to increase Trump’s chances of remaining in office. That includes disregarding expert advice and warnings concerning the pandemic, while trying to absolve the administration of any responsibility for the consequences. The lack of a coherent national response is because that’s not really the administration’s responsibility, they’re telling us. That’s a matter for the individual states and state governors to deal with. Simultaneously, they dismiss the opinions of the federal government’s own experts, while pushing for risky reopening decisions by the states.

This is what has happened and what is currently happening. Don’t take anyone else’s word for it. All you have to do to understand is look, listen, and think.

@Nathan Blue:

At the end of the day, Ron/AJ doesn’t respect my opinion, my vote, my sovereignty as an individual, or even my humanity.

AJ doesn’t respect the TRUTH. He has a long history of throwing bombastic accusations around and then scurrying off when asked for substantiation. He also enjoys attributing to people quotes they never made.

@Greg: Obama’s economy sucked and if Hillary had won, it would have continued sucking. Trump brought about the recovery and an economic boom. Biden would simply bring back more sucking.

@Nathan Blue:

You still fail to provide us with any reason that Joe Biden would be a better president than Donald Trump.

It’s a simple question, though one you just can’t seem to answer.

Once again my obviously illiterate friend, I have never argued Biden’s qualifications or his leadership skills, or even his initiatives on policy. Not once. Ever. On the other hand as I’ve mentioned repeatedly, Trump is the most incompetent self serving con-man ever to contaminate the White House so it’s fair to say the I’d think Nixon, George Wallace, or Archie Bunker would be a better president than the serial lying, rabid racist, thieving disgusting son of a bitch that’s presently looting our country and slaughtering people for his own personal benefit.

But getting back to the argument at hand. it really doesn’t matter who I think is best qualified. That has no bearing on the national electoral outcome other than my 1 and only vote that could still render meaningless contingent on the electoral college outcome of my state. You are indeed the slow one aren’t you?

Let me try to help you out with fears coming from Republican leaders.

Just in case you can’t find your way, here:

Republicans are privately fearing the worst possible outcome in November, one that could leave them without the White House or a majority in either chamber of Congress next year.

House Republicans face numerous, almost insurmountable obstacles: a cash shortfall against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 27 retiring lawmakers and a Republican National Committee that is more focused on reelecting President Trump and protecting the Senate GOP majority. They also need to pick up a net 17 seats to win back the House.

While Republicans noted the political landscape appears to change by the day, some are expressing a growing sense of doom.

“If the election were today, we would lose the House, the Senate and the White House,” said one Republican source.

Several GOP lawmakers are warning that the party faces a landslide defeat on Election Day if Trump doesn’t start landing punches on former Vice President Joe Biden, who has a strong lead in the polls both nationally and in key battleground states.

“This is the problem: [Trump] continues to allow it to be a referendum on himself; you can’t do that in a competitive race,” one GOP lawmaker said.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who was less pessimistic, predicted that Trump will gain momentum with more focus on Biden’s policy goals.

“The sooner the campaign is contrasted with what Biden wants to do,” the faster the race “is going to tighten,” McCarthy told The Hill in an interview.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) added: “There’s never been a clearer contrast in terms of a president who has successfully rebuilt the economy. And then COVID happened and now we need to rebuild the economy again — there’s nobody better to do that than Donald Trump.”

Republicans are hoping that when Trump has the opportunity to debate Biden in person, then their fortunes will change.

“President Trump has always done very well in debates,” McCarthy said. “They are underestimating him.”

But Trump’s unarticulated vision for a potential second term has made it difficult for GOP candidates to tell voters what they would be getting if they side with Republicans. And many voters don’t like what they’ve already seen, particularly when it comes to the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus.

Some GOP lawmakers who spoke to The Hill acknowledged that the president has failed to inject much-needed urgency into his pandemic response even as U.S. infection numbers approach 5 million, with nearly 160,000 dead.

“People are looking for reassurance … Chaos worked great in 2016, [but] they don’t want it in 2020,” said one GOP lawmaker. “They want to know that we’re trusting science and doctors on the questions here and they want to know we’re going to get through it. There needs to be more FDR fireside chats and less Jerry Springer knockdowns.”

Trump’s rhetoric has alienated a key voting bloc that Republicans have sought to attract: suburban women. The president’s recent attack on Deborah Birx, a leading member of the White House coronavirus task force, did not help that effort.

“Conservative women want to see empathy and compassion and don’t like meanness. We are doing really poorly with married, white women,” a GOP source said. “I do not at all understand the Deborah Birx attack at all — not politically and not morally.”

Republicans who are trying to court those voters also face a funding challenge. The campaign arm for House Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, held a $33 million advantage over the National Republican Congressional Committee at the end of June, making it harder for GOP candidates to get their message out to voters.

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) argued Biden’s eventual VP pick could prove beneficial for down-ballot Republicans heading into November.

“The pick of vice president is going to be a moment when we are going to be able to make a very strong case, no matter who Biden picks, about the track record of that individual and what they’ll bring in the future, as well as the debates,” she told The Hill on Thursday, expanding on a statement from Tuesday.

“We know absolutely that President Trump can win and is going to win this election by reminding the American people of everything he’s done, first of all to reverse the most dangerous policies of the Obama-Biden administration,” she added.

Some Republicans, however, see Trump pushing away another bloc of voters — seniors — with his persistent attacks on mail-in voting. His supporters say that could hurt him in the long run since seniors, who generally skew Republican, are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 and are more likely to vote by mail.

On Tuesday, the president reversed his stance on mail-in voting, specifically in the battleground state of Florida, where he encouraged voters to cast their ballots by mail.

Still, Republican candidates worry they’ll be weighed down on other issues where Trump is seen as out of step with the general public.

With race relations at the forefront of the national discussion following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis police custody, Trump’s response to the subsequent protests has been an area of concern for Republicans.

Republicans groaned when Trump refused, in an interview with Axios, to acknowledge the legacy of the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). Instead, the president remarked on how the Georgia congressman skipped his inauguration.

“It’s all about COVID and race [relations], and that’s all just personality and managing it. [Trump’s] got to show compassion and he’ll be all right. That’s the challenge — all those are changeable,” said one GOP lawmaker.

Three sources voiced optimism that a coronavirus vaccine could be approved as early as October, which they said could be Trump’s “October surprise” and give him a boost in the polls.

Some Republican lawmakers maintain that Trump is not as far behind as the polls claim, just like in 2016; rather, they feel the headlines over the next few weeks will soon describe the Trump campaign as making a comeback.

Even those who expressed doubt about the president winning in November argue there is a hidden percentage of Trump voters who are not being reflected in the polls.

“I think it’s significant,” said one House GOP lawmaker. “You have 1.8 million Trump voters nationwide who didn’t come out in the midterms who are going to be out this cycle.”

To many, however, one need look no farther than Capitol Hill to see that the election is not looking good for the GOP.

And I’ll agree it isn’t a conclusive argument and other factors can play in. But you give nothing. Nothing. Only your head up Trump’s butt slurping.

@Deplorable Me:

Obama’s economy sucked and if Hillary had won, it would have continued sucking. Trump brought about the recovery and an economic boom. Biden would simply bring back more sucking.

There’s that view, and then there’s reality.