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BGBD

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2. Simple explanation
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:44 PM
Jul 2020

Before, whenever Trump was getting in trouble and his number started to drop, he could say something crazy and get attention off of that thing and onto something else. It was like have some shiny object to distract a baby with.

However, a couple of things happened here. First, his approval wasn't hurt to start with. There was a rally around the flag effect and Trump made the mistake of trying to latch onto it and make himself the face of the coronavirus response. Remember, he was giving those marathon pressers each day. However, as he gave those people began to see that he has way out of his depth and it started dropping. Trump became obsessed with the stock market and reopening, and when he did cases started to skyrocket to where we are now, and he got full credit for it after making himself the face of it all.

Furthermore, there's nothing he can do to get the news cycle to move off of it. He's trying with all he can by saying racist crazy stuff, saying he's going to defund schools, etc. For the first time he is in a severely negative news cycle that he can't get to change and that isn't going to go away anytime soon. The more he digs, the deeper he gets.

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