Chuck Todd: Coronavirus Is a ‘Test’ for Trump the Way Iran Hostage Crisis Was for Carter

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TODD: “Matt, we were talking about it just before the break. What the Iran hostage crisis was to the final year of Carter’s presidency, not his fault, but it's a test in real time. This is what this seems to be for Trump.”
BAI: “Yeah. I mean it's one thing, what you guys were talking about, one thing when all the Republicans in Washington say, 'He says some crazy stuff on tax policy or this or that, but we have got it handled.' It’s a different thing when the President is out there leading publicly in a crisis like this and people are seeing it in real time, taking their cues from it. There is a certain capacity for chaos in American voters. They don’t like chaos. They don’t like uncertainty. The markets don’t like it. The voters don’t like it.  We don't like it in our daily lives. I’m frankly surprised that the exhaustion from that chaos has been as slow incoming as it has in the American public, but this does hold the potential, if it goes badly, to become a kind of Jimmy Carter-like scenario where the public just says, 'Can’t wake up with this anxiety every day. We have to have some kind of leadership.'”

(via RealClearPolitics)