Name: Will Trump's Covid recovery boost his flagging poll numbers? DC Diary
Uploaded: 2020-10-09T23:44:10.000Z
Duration: 1 min 55 s
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While Donald Trump continues to tweet his way

through his coronavirus recovery his support in the country

he had caught Covid-19 there was a great deal of uncertainty

His advisers hoped he would recover quickly and emerge

to speak with a greater authority about the disease he

Instead the president checked out early from hospital,

took a helicopter ride back to the White House,

a video telling Americans not to be afraid of the virus.

He has since spent much of the last couple of days

tweeting furiously, including launching attacks

people like his Attorney General Bill Barr,

and the head of the Food and Drug Administration, Steven

If the president is hoping that this show of strength

will impress voters, the opposite appears to be true.

We are now seeing the results of the first polls conducted

partly or mostly after Mr Trump's coronavirus diagnosis,

and they don't make great reading for the president.

14 points behind his Democratic challenger Joe Biden,

while a host of polls by Quinnipiac University

shows him behind in key battleground states.

He is apparently now 13 points behind in Pennsylvania,

11 points behind in Florida, and 5 points behind in Iowa.

A lot can happen of course in the remaining four

weeks of the campaign, and these are only single polls.

But if the president is hoping to turn his bout of coronavirus

into an electoral asset he may have to change his tone.

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