Donald Trump is that rare specimen in US presidential history whose approval ratings have never reached the 50 per cent mark. Any other incumbent would find that fact downright frightening, a prelude to an inevitable defeat in an election year. Trump, however, had something in his back pocket that any politician could only dream of having: a strong and robust economy that added hundreds of thousands of jobs every month.
Unfortunately for the President, the key word here is ‘had’. A thriving record of economic success over the last three years is now at risk of being completely undermined by a national pandemic that Trump himself didn’t take seriously until the stock markets began cratering. Which begs the question: what accomplishments can Trump run on this year as he prepares to campaign against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee?
For Trump, there was a pre-coronavirus world and a post-coronavirus world
For Trump, there was a pre-coronavirus world and a post-coronavirus world.
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