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https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/29/sun-belt-time-bomb-threatens-trumps-re-election/Sun Belt Time Bomb Threatens Trumps Re-Election
June 29, 2020 at 6:31 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
The explosion of Covid-19 cases in Sun Belt states is becoming another albatross for President Donald Trumps reelection hopes and creating a new opening for Joe Biden and Democrats in November, Politico reports.
Republican governors in Florida, Arizona and Texas followed Trumps lead by quickly reopening their states while taking a lax approach to social distancing and mask-wearing. Now each of them is seeing skyrocketing coronavirus caseloads and rising hospitalizations, and Republican leaders are in retreat.
Its hard to overstate the gravity of the situation for Trump: Lose any one of the three states, and his reelection is all but doomed. Liberal outside groups and the Biden campaign have launched digital and TV ads in Florida, Arizona and Texas hitting Trump for allowing a second wave of coronavirus. The developments have buttressed Bidens main argument against Trump: that hes incapable of bringing stability or healing in a time of crisis.
Republican governors in Florida, Arizona and Texas followed Trumps lead by quickly reopening their states while taking a lax approach to social distancing and mask-wearing. Now each of them is seeing skyrocketing coronavirus caseloads and rising hospitalizations, and Republican leaders are in retreat.
Its hard to overstate the gravity of the situation for Trump: Lose any one of the three states, and his reelection is all but doomed. Liberal outside groups and the Biden campaign have launched digital and TV ads in Florida, Arizona and Texas hitting Trump for allowing a second wave of coronavirus. The developments have buttressed Bidens main argument against Trump: that hes incapable of bringing stability or healing in a time of crisis.
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Sun Belt Time Bomb Threatens Trump's Re-Election (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2020
OP
Some will get a clue; others will get the virus; too sick to vote. Either way, bad news for Turd.
lagomorph777
Jun 2020
#8
Cha
(297,339 posts)1. KR! Another trump hoisting on his OWN PETARD.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)2. Are they starting to get it?
Cheetox is killing them with bogus information...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. Some will get a clue; others will get the virus; too sick to vote. Either way, bad news for Turd.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)3. I finally heard the L-word on NPR this morning.
Yup. Trump is lying. Lying. Lying. The host said it. Asked guests if Trump wasnt lying. He seemed to finally revel in the word, rolling it off his tongue, finally after four+ years of reporting on the lies, but never before being allowed to call them out.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)4. brings Georgia, North and South Carolina into play as well
as COVID is ripping again and GOP governors/legislatures are stuck on wrong side of it
Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)5. And it should be mentioned that Trump has no plan
Its evident now and is obvious for the future.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)6. tRUMP can't be "re-elected" since he was never "elected" in 2016. Never forget that he was
ratfucked into power...
pnwest
(3,266 posts)7. this. a thousand times, this
^^And Im so afraid its being planned again.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,062 posts)9. Good