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REPORT: Trump’s Support in Counties Hit Hardest by COVID-19 is Plummeting

Trump loves to talk about statues and crushing the “Marxist leftists,” as he talked about over the weekend in such hateful terms. He is in his comfort zone. To be sure, he’s also in the comfort zone of many of the MAGA heads. Thankfully, the people who want Trump talking about statues and sending troops to peaceful protests aren’t more than 20-25% of the nation. The end result is that Trump’s intense focus on dead traitors has infuriated many of his very much alive former supporters.

Trump’s support is crashing fastest in those counties where COVID is spreading fastest and taking the lives of too many people. According to a new report from Bloomberg, via Rawstory:

“Seniors in [Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania] disapproved of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, 52 percent to 45 percent,” Bloomberg writes. “And by a 26-point margin those voters said the federal government should prioritize containing the pandemic over reopening the economy.”

Although the pandemic was initially concentrated in blue states in the northeast, it has since spread to states such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona, where both cases numbers and hospitalizations have surged dramatically in recent weeks. Florida and Arizona are considered two swing states that Trump desperately needs to win in order to have any chance of being re-elected.

Gee, we wonder how it went straight to the reddest states to really fester? Maybe they were the ones most listening to Trump’s “LIBERATE” calls?

Our sharp readers will of course note that each of the above states is a must-win in a presidential election. Given that Trump has proven that he will never, ever, prioritize COVID over reopening the economy, he has lost those voters for good. They know it, he doesn’t.

It is tragically typical Trump to focus solely upon economics in a time when the nation is focused upon the possibility of dying or having loved ones die. We who are in our 40s and 50s aren’t guaranteed a thing, and it’s obvious why anyone over 60 would be furious with the Trump administration. It feels like we’ve all been cast aside as collateral damage to Trump’s precious economy.

The last horrific irony is that the economy won’t come back until people feel safe from COVID. Trump did COVID just like he did business, half-assed and all full of bluster, thinking he can talk his ass out of it. Trump said that COVID is “harmless 99% of the time.” He is wrong on so many levels. Even someone who recovers can have lung damage and will be suffering alone for 2-3 weeks. That’s not “harmless.” Who wouldn’t be offended by his attitude? Only those too stupid to understand, sad but true.

But no one should be surprised, least of all Trump’s campaign advisers. He has never been able to feel empathy and has always been about money. Now the country is dying and Trump is still in pursuit of money. The money won’t come back until safety comes back. It is why Trump won’t get off his slide to oblivion and why we believe he might not even make it to November.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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