New polling underscores the motivations behind Donald Trump’s desperate bid to steal the election by kneecapping vote-by-mail systems at the state level. Trump has 100 percent blown what has become this election’s pivotal issue: the coronavirus.
The new NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Friday showed that fully 71 percent of Americans now consider the coronavirus to be “a real threat.” That’s not only an eye-popping share of the electorate, that’s a major jump from March when 56 percent deemed it a major threat.
The share of Americans who think the pandemic threat is overblown has likewise dropped to just 27 percent from the 38 percent who believed that in March. Continue reading.