Despite everything, Trump' approval rating continues to rise. 45.8% approve of Trump.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
That's nuts.
"Every country has the government it deserves."
Joseph de Maistre
They're lagging due to the model, he already hit a record peak and started dropping on RCP which doesn't do any modeling. I think the daily briefings have hit their high and will start not being a positive anymore, he needs to pair back his appearances to once a week or so. Do weekly sum-up appearances and then appear if there's "big news" of some kind, otherwise turn them over to Pence and crew. Once we've clearly hit the flattening of the curve he definitely shouldn't be doing them every day. From the snippets I've watched I can't tell if he actually likes doing them or just doesn't like the reason he's doing them.
The three months of 2020 have actually been Trump's best approval average of his Presidency, even his first three months in office weren't this good. The end of March, start of April spike put him
two points above his inauguration average which is generally when Presidents, outside of a crisis, have their best approval. Obama never got higher than his inauguration bumps IIRC. He's also improving in the head to heads.
A coronation attempt for Biden followed by a shutting down of the primaries as Trump appears everywhere was definitely not good for the D's even if Trump has bumbled around it still elevates him. The Virtual Biden campaign thing is never going to work. I really don't know what they do at this point, it'll be fun to see a scramble election that's more like everybody else's short-term campaign periods, everything is built around the permanent campaign here. Might as well just McGovern Bernie at this point as much as pin any hopes to Joe.
