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Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:44 PM Sep 2020

Trump's mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled GOP senate majority

Virus Pulls Down Trump, Poll Shows, and G.O.P. Senators Suffer With Him
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine’s Senate race.


President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled both his own re-election and his party’s majority in the Senate, and Republican lawmakers in crucial states like Arizona, North Carolina and Maine have fallen behind their Democratic challengers amid broad disapproval of the president, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. led Mr. Trump by wide margins in Arizona, where he was ahead by nine percentage points, and Maine, where he led by 17 points. The race was effectively tied in North Carolina, with Mr. Biden ahead by one point, 45 percent to 44 percent.

In all three states, Democratic Senate candidates were leading Republican incumbents by five percentage points or more. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican seeking a fifth term, is in a difficult battle against Sara Gideon, trailing by five points as voters there delivered a damning verdict on Mr. Trump’s stewardship: By a 25-point margin, 60 percent to 35 percent, they said they trusted Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump on the issue of the pandemic.

The poll, conducted among likely voters, suggests that the most endangered Republican lawmakers have not managed to convince many voters to view them in more favorable terms than the leader of their party, who remains in political peril with less than 50 days remaining in the campaign. Democrats appear well positioned to gain several Senate seats, and most voters say they would prefer to see the White House and Senate controlled by the same party. But it is not yet clear that Democrats are on track to gain a clear majority, and their hopes outside the races tested in the poll largely depend on winning in states Mr. Trump is likely to carry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/latest-polls.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Trump's mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has imperiled GOP senate majority (Original Post) Demovictory9 Sep 2020 OP
👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #1
Not holding Trump accountable Jacoby365 Sep 2020 #2
They had their chance soothsayer Sep 2020 #3
They can all eat shit and die for all I care Blue Owl Sep 2020 #4
I should hope to hell so. trump on his Own Petard.. Again Cha Sep 2020 #5
How can Moscow Mitch be so far ahead though? Are people in Kentucky really that dumb??? Vinca Sep 2020 #6
Has Susan Collins learned her lesson? chriscan64 Sep 2020 #7

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
7. Has Susan Collins learned her lesson?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 05:55 PM
Sep 2020

Trump sure hasn't. Every day he makes that "not guilty" Senate vote look more and more like a mistake.

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