Posted on 04/14/2020 11:45:16 PM PDT by granada
It’s never good for a sitting president heading into reelection to be compared to Jimmy Carter. In 1980, with the country in an economic and diplomatic crisis, the beleaguered former president took on Ronald Reagan, then considered a weak challenger, and won only six states.
Now as 2020 nears, President Trump is finding himself constantly behind Democrats in reelection polls and the latest has compared the Republican to Carter. “Perhaps the closest analogy to Trump in terms of approval ratings is Jimmy Carter, whose average approval rating for his term was 45 percent,” said a survey from the Wason Center for Public Policy at Virginia’s Christopher Newport University.
“Carter, of course, lost his reelection bid. Trump’s average approval rating for his first 27 months in office has ranged between the high 30s and the mid-40s. President Trump will be the least popular president to run for reelection in the history of polling,” said the poll analysis that put Trump at 37% and a generic Democrat at 48%.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Beware of static discharge when she drops her lines for mooring.
I’m just saying...
Heh, heh.
It's aimed at the same type of folks as the Never-Trumpers on the other side of the aisle:
the Never-Bidens.
And; after licking their wounds AFTER Election Day; they'll be right back at it again!
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