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Lots of people disagree on politics, COVID-19, etc. But I suspect that most people will agree, fair or not, this is pretty brutal for Trump politically. Recessions and pandemics don't tend to be good for articulate incumbents. They're worse for Trump. ftx.com/president2020

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Mar 23, 2020

Trump refused to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously, now he won’t take responsibility as his administration has been totally unprepared for this crisis.

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Yup agreed--buy the way he talked about it makes for amazing oppo research and attack adds.

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Recessions sure of course. With pandemic he will try to paint himself as wartime President battling external force, it might not be so clear cut I fear. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

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Oh yeah agreed--a better speaker would have done a way better job of spinning that; he wasn't careful enough with his message, and I think that'll make this a lot harder for him.

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Timing is interesting. Election year.

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But it's a war! (at least that's what Trump is calling it)

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If he'd stuck to that message from the beginning this might even be _good_ for him politically. But this original messaging really paints him into a corner here.

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Isn’t there a “commander in chief during battle” narrative that has been used by incumbents past?

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Yup agreed, and he'll try that--but the add I retweeted really catches him trying out a different strategy early, which won't look good in retrospect.

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Agreed, sound bites are effective. That said, wait until the same ads start for B-B-Bid-umm-Obama. I am pretty apathetic w/ politics, but all this is low IQ, as most of politics is. Most of this is out of context, a week or 2 is legit bad, & early comments were when WHO/China

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..were still saying it wasn't even person to person transmission. Same people throwing out the bulk data/country; of course it is going to look horrible when US is land mass of all of EU and HUGE population to EU nations. China #'s also BS, no P2P trans in Jan, but found Nov.

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