Trump shocked to learn he might not win reelection
By
Paul Waldman
Washington Post Opinion writer
April 30, 2020 at 10:20 a.m. EDT

Donald Trump does not like to hear bad news. By all accounts, in private
the people who work for him are required to deliver to him a version of
the rhetoric he offers to the public: Everything is great; you’re
setting records; nobody’s ever seen anything so amazing. When they
don’t, he becomes extremely unhappy, as he did recently after aides
presented him with “grim polling data … to encourage him to reduce the
frequency of coronavirus briefings or to stop taking questions, after
seeing his numbers slip for several weeks,” according to reporting by
The Post and other news organizations.

Worst of all, internal polls from the RNC and his reelection campaign
showed him trailing former vice president Joe Biden, the likely
Democratic nominee, in swing states:

Aides described Trump as in a particularly foul mood last week because
of the polling data and news coverage of his administration’s response
to the pandemic, according to two of the people familiar with the
discussions. In one call, he berated [campaign manager Brad] Parscale
over the polling data, the two people said.

Other reports describe Trump “shouting” or “erupt[ing]” at Parscale and
blaming the campaign manager for his poor standing, because it couldn’t
possibly be Trump’s own fault. “I am not f---ing losing to Joe Biden,”
he reportedly said. Yet the reality is that he will probably trail Biden
in polls from here to November, though that doesn’t mean he’s going to lose.


(Just an excerpt.)

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