Making History - Who’ll get a Run?
These are certainly tough times for Mr. Trump. With the medical and economic tempest unmatched in lifetimes, and the political landscape unsettled, the US President is confronted with a stark question: Can he save his re-election #campaign while so much is suddenly going so wrong?
Mr. Trump’s chief argument of championing signs of financial prosperity is now an impossible sell as the stock markets plummets and over 3.3mn file for unemployment. Rarely have incumbent presidents seen their re-election arguments evaporate so quickly.
If the President has ever needed a new strategy for the voters (and for that matter, luck too), the time is now.
He has brazenly opted to caricaturing himself as the “Wartime President”.
But in this instance, Trump isn’t facing a problem with politics, which he can easily spin his way out of. It’s a lethal virus.
With USA setting the pace for the world, as its caseload tops 163,539 cases with 2,860 deaths reported with CDC, as of this tuesday evening, the White House is being blamed for early denial of the coronavirus’s gravity.
2.2.mn people would have died if we hadn’t done social distancing and all that.
And so, if we can hold that down to 100 or 200 thousand (deaths), we all together have done a very good job.
~ Donald Trump
He has chosen to imagine that the worst is behind, while its clearly ahead.
Now that Trump can’t alter this epidemiological #reality, he is hoping for the outbreak of the virus to slow and, in the warmer months - dissipate and #FlattenTheCurve; and not to forget, for the enormous ($2.2 trillion) bailout package to work!
But this is too big a story, and the carnage will be a hell lot bigger to be distracted from.
No doubt, America will make it to the other side, as it has done in every crisis. But the struggle will be a good deal harder, and the human cost is a good deal higher.
Now the question remains...
Who’ll get another "Run"?
Will Trump rewrite History or will Corona write one for itself?
References: #CDC, #NYtimes, #TheAtlantic.
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4 年President Trump has always proved himself a big game changer. But the stroke he has so far played is majorly related to Economics and Finance. The way he has compoundedly increased his networh by 5 % each year shows his presence of business mind. It's of no doubt that America will be one of the fastest recovering nation after the end of this Corona pandemic. But the major real question revolves around 'what during this pandemic ?' He will win the elections , that's for sure as of now. But the major question also revolves around whetha he will succeed in gaining more popularity and more Representative seats or not , after eliminating 'Obama Health Care ' policy ?