BTRTN: Trump Recognizes Reality - and Promptly Departs From It
Born To Run The Numbers provides its monthly review for July, with all of the latest numbers on Trump's approval ratings and polling, including the new feature, "Monthly Madness," which highlights Trump's craziest behavior of the month. Hint..."Person, Man, Woman..."
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/08/btrtn-trump-recognizes-reality-and.html
Excerpts: "As COVID-19 surged out of control again throughout the month of July, racing through Florida, Georgia, Arizona, California and many other states, the political question of the day was how long could Trump continue to simply ignore it? At what point would it become obvious to Trump himself that obliviousness was not a tenable strategy for the supposed leader of the free world...?"
"...But the unmistakable turn in Trump’s messaging came on July 21 with the reinstatement of the press briefings....At his first renewed press briefing that he stuck to 'Teleprompter Trump,' speaking in subdued tones, plaintively stating something that was undeniably true: that the COVID crisis 'would get worse before it gets better...'
"But clearly he was getting crushed on the virus. Simultaneously, the pandemic was rated as the most important issue in the election and one that he was failing on (as the polls showed). It does not take a genius (or even a particular fluency in data) to compare the containment performance of the U.S. under Trump versus his European counterparts in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The 'Big 5' have a combined population almost identical to the US (330 million), yet they have driven down cases – through national, coordinated plans and action -- to roughly 2,500 per day, a far cry from the U.S.’s 59,000 per day....
"But alas, the Trump conversion was not built to last. Within a week he was done with showing off masks and offering sobering assessments of the current state of the crisis. Instead, he was back to touting hydroxychloroquine as the ultimate cure-all – and on to other topics..."
