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To: locogringo who wrote (1218905)	4/10/2020 10:05:59 AM
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JUST IN: tRUMP APPROVAL NOSEDIVES AS AMERICANS QUESTION HIS HANDLING OF COVID-19 CRISIS nbcnews.com WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval has taken a negative turn as a growing number of Americans harbor doubts about his handling of the coronavirus crisis. After seeing a late-March spike as the pandemic ravaged the United States, his approval ratings have fallen back to the mid-40 percent range, where they were before the death toll and jobless claims exploded. The figure dovetails surveys showing the president narrowly trailing former Vice President Joe Biden, who this week became the apparent Democratic nominee to face him in November. The latest numbers suggest the surge in job approval ratings that presidents tend to enjoy during a crisis was modest and short-lived for Trump. New polls this week by Quinnipiac, Reuters and CNN all find disapproval of Trump's handling of the coronavirus rising to a majority of Americans. It's a reversal of fortune for a president who benefits from a committed minority of supporters but has never quite managed to win over a majority of the country. And it comes after his spike in approval had significantly lagged U.S. governors and world leaders, as well as previous American presidents during a crisis or a war. After rising to his highest-ever 47.4 percent rating on April 1, Trump's approval began to fall and stood at 45.2 percent as of Thursday — the same level as early February — in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Trump's messaging strategy has been to portray himself as a wartime president leading the country to victory. The president has led televised briefings on the pandemic almost every day, flanked by medical specialists and top officials at the White House podium. But he has tended to veer off-topic into a rally-like atmosphere with a mixture of self-congratulation, derisive nicknames to mock political rivals, blaming his predecessor for recent failures in COVID-19 testing, picking fights with reporters, and issuing a stream of dubious or false assertions. Democrats have run TV ads pummeling Trump for ignoring the early warnings and downplaying the outbreak until mid-March after he initially compared it to the flu and assured the country the virus would "disappear." Biden has faulted his rival's handling of the pandemic, saying Wednesday: "The coronavirus is not Donald Trump's fault, but the slow and chaotic response to it is." A Monmouth University poll out Thursday said Trump's favorable rating had dipped by 4 points to 42 percent since March. His unfavorable rating was 50 percent, with 43 percent of those surveyed registering a "very unfavorable" view of the president. Biden's rating was 41 percent favorable to 42 percent unfavorable, with 17 percent registering no opinion. Trump trails Biden 44 percent to 48 percent in a trial heat, a margin statistically unchanged from last month's Monmouth poll. Other surveys have shown Trump trailing his Democratic rival by wider margins. But with the election still seven months away in a deeply divided country that sent Trump to the White House even as he lost the popular vote in 2016, the outcome is far from certain. "The static nature of these results suggests the president's response to the pandemic is certainly not helping his re-election prospects," Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said.

To: locogringo who wrote (1218905)	4/10/2020 10:17:31 AM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1580566

BOMBSHELL: TRUMP SAYS WIDESPREAD CORONAVIRUS TESTING 'WOULD NEVER HAPPEN' AND ISN'T NEEDED TO REOPEN COUNTRY BY ANDREW FEINBERG ON 4/9/20 AT 8:26 PM EDT newsweek.com President Donald Trump on Thursday said a widespread COVID-19 testing program to assess whether workers can safely return to their workplaces is "never going to happen" in the United States. As he addressed reporters during the daily White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Trump touted the fact that 2 million Americans had been tested for the virus as a "milestone" in the U.S. fight against the global pandemic caused by SARS-Cov-2. The 2 million tests that have been administered so far represents a high water mark after weeks of problems in obtaining and administering tests caused by the Trump administration's rejection of a test developed by the World Health Organization. However, that number means only .61 percent of the 330 million U.S. population has been tested for COVID-19. That's a paltry number compared to many other countries which have implemented testing programs. Italy, for example, has administered tests to approximately 1.4 percent of its population, and South Korea, which flattened its infection curve with widespread testing, has reached .9 percent of its population. Most public health experts have stressed the need for the U.S. to significantly expand its testing program, both with currently available tests to determine whether a given person is infected with SARS-Cov-2, and with so-called "antibody tests" to determine whether a person has successfully fought off the virus and is therefore immune to it. U.S. unemployment claims have approached 17 million over the past three weeks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.ALEX WONG/GETTY Both varieties of test, experts say, must be administered in far greater quantities than currently being done in order to allow Americans to return to work without fear of infection, though Trump has repeatedly suggested that the U.S. could begin to emerge from social distancing measures within a few weeks. But when asked how his administration could discuss "reopening" the U.S. economy without an adequate testing program in place, Trump claimed that such a program was not just unnecessary, but was something that was simply not in the cards.

To: locogringo who wrote (1218905)	4/10/2020 10:18:34 AM
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Golf Kept Trump From Focusing On COVID-19, Not Impeachment, Zings GOP Group In New Ad He was also tied up at campaign rallies, jamming people together, says Lincoln Project attack video. huffpost.com

To: locogringo who wrote (1218905)	4/10/2020 10:20:24 AM
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DISTRACTED-THE BLOOD OF 17,000 DEAD AMERICANS IS ON POS tRUMP's HANDS

To: locogringo who wrote (1218905)	4/10/2020 10:31:45 AM
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Fox News Host Diagnosed With COVID-19 After Colleagues Blow Off Pandemic huffpost.com