AP’s Jonathan Lemire: People Around Trump Are Concerned He’s Talking to an ‘Increasingly Smaller Portion of the Country’

‘This isn’t three dimensional or fourth dimensional chess, often it’s the President reacting to what he sees on television’

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LEMIRE: “We know yesterday, there was — Media Matters tracked this, during — on 'Fox & Friends,' there were as many if not more mentions of statues than there were of the Coronavirus. So there’s this sort of echo chamber between what the White House and conservative media, not just Fox, and they sort of feed off of each other. But it seems that — and this is the concern that people around the President have had — is that he’s talking to an increasingly smaller portion of the country, a portion of the electorate. It is an election year, we have to think of it that way. And as much as he’s doubling and tripling down on these base plays, on racial grievance, distancing himself from the movement that we’ve seen sweep the nation in the last month or so, stoking white resentment, they feel like this is out of step right now, that some of the moves that worked in 2016, this cultural grievance may not be working now. The polling on Black Lives Matter, for instance, has shifted so dramatically since 2016, far more of the nation supports that movement and what it’s trying to achieve.”

(via The Contemptor

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