Election 2020

Chris Wallace Hints Trump’s in Big Trouble, ‘It’s Been A Very Bad Week for the President’s Reelection Prospects’

It’s not a secret that the past week has been a tough one for President Donald Trump, and he hasn’t weathered it well. That was not lost on Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, who detailed Trump’s “very bad week” in an appearance on The View Tuesday.

Wallace carefully delineated the damage: Dissent within his own Cabinet, mishandling of the protests near the White House, and tanking poll numbers all add up to trouble for Trump. We’ve included the video below.

At one point The View co-host Sunny Hostin asked Wallace how the president’s strategy was going — right or wrong, but Wallace, as Mediaite reports, “reframed his answer in terms of raw politics.”

“Trump is positioning himself as a law and order candidate, but these movements that we are seeing in the streets are protesting law enforcement as we know it,” Hostin noted. “He is also reigniting the fight over taking a knee in silent protest during the national anthem.”

She’s not wrong. He’s throwing gasoline on a fire that’s already raging.

“Is this, in your view, the right tone for the president to be taking in this moment?” Hostin asked.

“Well, I’m not going to talk about, in terms of right or wrong, I mean the President has his base and he has his beliefs, and he’s entitled to them,” Wallace said. He then decided to evaluate Trump’s political situation.

“I would say that the last week was a very bad week for the president in terms of politics, in terms of his potential reelection prospects,” Wallace noted. “I mean, when you’re getting called out by the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, and the archbishop of the Catholic Church, when you’re getting called out by everybody from Jim Mattis to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mike Mullen and even your own current Secretary of Defense Mark Esper breaks with you, that’s not a good week.”

Then Wallace focused on Trump’s falling poll numbers.

“He had some good news on the economy, but clearly, and you see there’s a new poll in The Washington Post today that indicates by an almost two to one margin people don’t think the president has handled the last week properly, and his approval ratings and his standing in the polls has dropped,” he said.

“So you can argue as to whether he’s right or wrong, but politically, I think it’s been a bad week,” Wallace concluded.

 

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