Biden Has Opened Up Huge Lead A new Echelon Insights poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race nationally, 53% to 38%.
Trump’s approval rate is 37% to 60%.
Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot, 51% to 37%.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/biden-has-opened-up-huge-lead/Biden barely trails Trump in AlaskaA new PPP Poll shows Joe Biden behind by only 3 points in Alaska 48% to 45%. This poll should give Trump more headaches as another solid red state becomes a battleground.
Wall of Vets’ Joins ProtestersFirst, there was a “wall” of moms protecting Portland protesters — now there’s a wall of vets doing the same, the New York Times reports.
“A group of military veterans joined protesters in the city for the first time Friday night, standing with their hands clasped behind their backs or holding Black Lives Matter signs.”
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/wall-of-vets-joins-protesters/Trump Told to Stop Using Reagan’s Image“The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which runs the 40th president’s library near Los Angeles, has demanded that President Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) quit raising campaign money by using Ronald Reagan’s name and likeness,” the Washington Post reports.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/foundation-tells-trump-to-stop-using-reagan-image/The Trump Death CultTom Nichols: “America has now passed the milestone of 4 million COVID cases, and we’re still arguing with doctors and epidemiologists about masks and school closures. I expected some of this, because I literally wrote the book over three years ago on why so many Americans think they’re smarter than experts. What I did not expect is that this resolute and childish opposition to expertise would be hijacked by the president of the United States and an entire American political party, and then turned into a suicide cult.”
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/the-trump-death-cult/18 States Set Single-Day Records for VirusEighteen states set single-day coronavirus case records over the last week, driving the U.S. toward another national high, the New York Times reports.
Deaths are also rising: Friday was the fourth consecutive day with more than 1,100 reported U.S. deaths, which are trending upward in 30 states.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/18-states-set-single-day-records-for-virus/How to Lose a Swing StateElaine Godfrey: “Donald Trump needs Arizona on his side in November. Losing the state and its 11 Electoral College votes would, at the very least, mean a drastically narrower path back to the White House. Keeping Arizona red shouldn’t be a challenge; the state has long been a Republican stronghold. But Arizona is changing rapidly, and right now, the forecast for the GOP looks grim: In 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in the state since the 1980s, and Joe Biden has been leading in the presidential polls there for weeks. In this year’s Senate race, the astronaut turned Democratic candidate Mark Kelly is ahead of the incumbent Republican Martha McSally by a comfortable margin. And after the state was reopened by its Republican governor, it experienced a massive surge in COVID-19 infections.”
“One might think that, in its moment of peril, the Arizona GOP would attempt to win over moderates. Yet the person charged with shepherding the party to victory in this most crucial moment is the state GOP chairperson Kelli Ward, a pro-Trump zealot with a soft spot for conspiracy theories, a woman who is most famous for her failed primary challenge to Republican Senator John McCain in 2016. Just as polls show Arizonans—especially those in the suburbs—souring on Trump, the state party has veered sharply to the right.”
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/25/how-to-lose-a-swing-state/DeSantis Sidelined Scientists and Followed Trump“As Florida became a global epicenter of the coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis held one meeting this month with his top public health official, Scott Rivkees, according to the governor’s schedule. His health department has sidelined scientists, halting briefings last month with disease specialists and telling the experts there was not sufficient personnel from the state to continue participating,” the Washington Post reports.
“As the virus spread out of control in Florida, decision-making became increasingly shaped by politics and divorced from scientific evidence… The crisis in Florida, these observers say, has revealed the shortcomings of a response built on shifting metrics, influenced by a small group of advisers and tethered at every stage to the Trump administration, which has no unified plan for addressing the national health emergency but has pushed for states to reopen.”
