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Donald Trump may abandon the 2020 presidential race if he believes he has no chance of winning, a Republican Party agent was reported. Fox News.
The claim comes in a report in the president’s favorite news outlet that quotes a number of Republican informants who are concerned about Trump’s reelection prospects amid abysmal poll numbers.
Joe Biden, the suspected Democratic candidate, currently has a nine-point average lead over the incumbent, according to a 2020 poll tracker by RealClearPolitics.
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Crucially, Trump has lost the support of older white voters, usually a base of support for the Republican Party and a group that was crucial to his narrow 2016 victory. Trump is also following the former vice president in almost every decisive state. .
“It is too early, but if the polls continue to worsen, you can see a scenario in which it is withdrawn,” said an anonymous Republican Party agent. Fox News.
Charles Gasparino, author of the Fox News report, said in a series of tweets that he had spoken to “the top players” in the Republican party for history. One of them described Trump’s mood as “fragile” as his chances for a second term seemed increasingly tenuous.
Another of the Republican sources cited in the report said of the likelihood that Trump will leave: “I heard the talk but I doubt it is true. My bet is that it falls if you think there is no way to win. “
Trump has repeatedly criticized polls that show him far behind Biden. Last month, he tweeted that Fox News “should fire its fake pollster. I never had a good Fox poll!
On Monday, he tweeted, “Sorry for reporting the Democrats on Do Nothing, but I’m getting VERY GOOD internal poll numbers. Just like in 2016, the @nytimes polls are fake! @FoxNews polls are a Joke Do you think they will apologize? To me and their subscribers AGAIN when I WIN? People want LAW, ORDER AND SAFETY! “
But polls by all electoral organizations show that Trump is consistently behind by similar margins. In particular, they have shown high levels of disapproval for the president’s handling of the coronavirus and the mass protests calling for racial justice after the police murder of George Floyd.
A recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll He found that 36 percent of American adults approve of Trump’s handling of the protests, while 62 percent disapprove. A New York Times poll returned similar numbers.
The same New York Times-Siena College The survey found that 58 percent of Americans disapprove of their management of the coronavirus outbreak, while only 38 percent approve, the worst ratings since the crisis began.
The Trump campaign called for reports that the president would consider leaving “the grandfather of fake news.”
“Everyone knows that media polls have always been wrong about President Trump (they underestimate Republicans and don’t select potential voters) to set up false narratives,” said Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh, to Fox News.
“It will not work. There were similar concerns in 2016 and if it had been accurate, Hillary Clinton would be in the White House right now. “
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