Because of how well Trump is handling it and bringing people together? Have you boys been sniffing again?
At I mentioned earlier if Trump stood up and demonstrated some real leadership beyond tweeting about declaring ANTIFA a terrorist organization -- but actually did it and then sent feds to arrest all the violent leaders and members then he will win in November. What has he done some far -- hid in his bunker tweeting bullshiat. This being said I believe that the polling over the recent couple days will show a narrowing of the gap rather than widening between Biden-Trump. Biden staff members paying the bail of violent rioting thugs is going to be a significant campaign issue that GOP will be glad to harp on.
Wrong.New poll from May 29-30 https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...hink-trump-is-racist-poll-finds/#67fb09fe5c80 A new poll found former Vice President Joe Biden gaining 5 points over President Trump since nationwide protests in response to George Floyd’s death erupted, with most respondents giving the president’s record on race relations low marks and saying he is a racist. The poll of 1,060 U.S. adults conducted from May 29-30 by YouGov and Yahoo News had Biden leading Trump by 8 points, 48% to 40%. That’s up from a 3-point lead in a YouGov poll conducted May 23-26, just as the protests in Minneapolis were beginning. Trump garnered poor marks on racial issues, with 53% saying they disapprove of his handling of race relations and 52% saying they believe Trump himself is a racist. Trump’s recent tweets, in which he has lashed out at protesters and said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” seem to be causing him headaches, with 54% saying Trump should stop tweeting compared to 33% who say he should continue. A plurality, 45%, of respondents said race relations have gotten worse in the last ten years, compared to 40% who said they have stayed the same and just 14% who said they have improved. Key Background Race has long been a potent issue for Trump, but he has been trying to win over some minority voters to boost his reelection bid. He has put out ads targeting black voters and seizing on Biden’s poorly received comment that “if you don’t support me, you ain’t black,” in an effort to appeal to young black men, a group seen as drifting slightly toward the GOP. Trump had also been gaining with Hispanic voters thanks in part to Biden’s poor outreach to that community. However, the combination of the coronavirus pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color and Trump’s handling of the George Floyd aftermath may have hobbled that strategy. Tangent The YouGov poll’s respondents broadly support the goals of protesters, but have mixed views about them. Over 80% said they support measures like training police to de-escalate conflicts and putting more police accountability measures in place, while 67% said they support banning restraint of suspects by the neck. However, just 10% said they see the protests in Minneapolis as mostly peaceful, while 25% said they see them as equally peaceful protests and violent riots, and 51% said they see them as mostly violent riots. Americans were split on the motives of the protesters, with 43% saying they have a genuine desire to hold police accountable while 40% said they have a long-standing bias against the police. There was also little support for a more hardline stance of some protesters: just 16% said they support cutting funding for police departments, while 65% said they oppose such a proposal. News Peg There had been some debate among analysts about whether civil unrest would benefit Trump as it has with previous Republican candidates. It seems, however, that many Americans are holding Trump personally accountable for the unrest, a change from 1968 when Richard Nixon seized on domestic unrest with a law-and-order platform to win the presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/joe-biden-trump-poll-monmouth-298470 By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 06/03/2020 01:05 PM EDT Former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over President Donald Trump has grown despite his absence from the campaign trail, a new poll released Wednesday shows, putting the presumptive Democratic nominee ahead by double-digits. The Monmouth University poll shows Biden with an 11-point nationwide lead over the president, 52 percent to Trump’s 41 percent among registered voters. That gap is wider than it was in May, when Biden had the support of 50 percent of respondents to Trump’s 41 percent. It’s significantly larger than the chasm just before Biden locked up the Democratic nomination in March, when polls showed a much closer, three-point race. Wednesday’s survey indicated that the nationwide unrest over the last week, stemming from the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police, is weighing on the minds of a significant slice of voters, with Trump earning worse marks on race relations amid the upheaval. One-in-three voters said that race relations will play a major role in their vote for president, though nearly half, 49 percent, said the issue would not factor into their decision at all. Another 17 percent said race relations would play a minor role in their vote. White voters (27 percent) were less likely than voters of color (44 percent) to call race relations a major factor in their vote, the poll found, and Biden has the advantage when it comes to voters’ confidence in addressing racial inequities. This could pose an issue for the president, whose campaign had sought to make inroads with black voters ahead of November’s election. Biden, meanwhile, has used the events of the last week to ratchet up the contrast between himself and the president, though Wednesday's poll was conducted before Trump threatened to use the military to end raging protests and Biden delivered a speech rebuking Trump's handling of the crisis. The Monmouth poll found that slightly over half of those polled expressed at least some degree of trust in Biden’s ability to handle race relations, compared with only four-in-10 who said the same of Trump. Trump did hold an advantage in the degree to which respondents had confidence in him to address race relations — 22 percent said they had a great deal of confidence in the president on the issue versus 17 percent who said the same of Biden. Still, exactly half of those polled said they had no confidence at all in Trump to handle racial issues. When it comes to the parallel crisis unfolding in America, the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, the Monmouth survey found the vice president with another advantage. Just over half, 54 percent, said they have either a great deal of confidence in Biden to lead the recovery, while just under half, 47 percent, said the same of the president. On the twin issues of the economy and the coronavirus, respondents were more likely to express a great deal of confidence in Trump — 33 percent — than Biden — 18 percent — to lead the nation’s recovery. Nearly three-quarters of respondents who identified as Republicans said they have a great deal of confidence in Trump, compared with a nearly identical percentage who said they have no confidence at all in Biden. Among those polled who identified as Democrats, just 34 percent have a great deal of confidence in Biden, while seven-in-10 have no confidence at all in Trump’s ability to handle the recovery. The Monmouth University Poll was conducted by phone from May 28 to June 1 among 807 adults, including 742 registered voters. Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are running neck-and-neck in Texas, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, suggesting that the longtime Republican stronghold may be in play in 2020. The poll shows Trump with a narrow, 1-point lead over presumptive Democratic nominee Biden — 44 percent to 43 percent, well within the survey’s 2.9 percentage-point margin of error. Among voters from their respective parties, Biden has a slight edge. Ninety percent of Democrats said they would vote for the former vice president in November, while 87 percent of Republicans said they plan to cast their ballots for Trump. In another positive sign for Biden, independents said they favor him over Trump, 45 percent to 36 percent, according to the Quinnipiac poll. Texas voters are largely split on who would do a better job responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Forty-seven percent chose Biden, while 45 percent chose Trump. That’s still within the poll’s margin of error, however. "Too tight to tell in Texas,” said Tim Malloy, a polling analyst at Quinnipiac University. “As the country confronts chaos and COVID-19, perhaps one of the most important states of all is a toss-up.” In terms of overall favorability, Biden and Trump are also just about tied – and neither is above water. Biden netted a -7 percentage-point favorability rating, while Trump netted -8 percentage points, according to the poll. The tight nature of the race in Texas suggests that the traditionally deep-red state may be within reach for Democrats. Republicans have won every presidential election in Texas since 1980, and Trump carried the state by 9 points in 2016. But an influx of new residents and a growing Latino population has buoyed Democrats’ hopes of winning statewide in Texas in 2020. The party is also contesting several GOP-held House seats and a Senate seat this year, and is angling to make gains in the state House. The Texas Democratic Party touted the poll on Wednesday, insisting that it is a sign that Texas may be on the verge of a political sea change. “The polls released the last few weeks continue to reaffirm an unwavering truth this election cycle: Texas is the biggest battleground state in the country," Manny Garcia, the executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said. "Voters are increasingly entrusting Democratic leaders with the future of their communities. Republicans have proven utterly incapable of managing times of crisis, and that has hurt them up and down the ballot." The Quinnipiac University poll is based on interviews with 1,166 self-identified registered voters in Texas. The survey was conducted from May 28-June 1.