“If the president can redraw the contrasts between him and Joe Biden, it becomes a race between Trump and Biden, I think the president is doing incredibly well,” Mulvaney told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business. “And control people.” Listen, if you rent me out, here’s what you get. If you rent it, your best friend will end up out of work. “But if his best friend ends up being a popularity check or, worse, a referendum on President Trump, I think he has real headwinds,” said Mulvaney, who now serves as Special Envoy for Northern Ireland.
Much of these studies are seriously flawed. On the one hand, there is no explanation why to believe that a “race between Trump and Biden” favors the Republican. Most polls show that the Delaware Democrat is more popular and consistent with likes than the incumbent.
On the other hand, the assumption that Trump has a majestic record of tasks makes no sense. Even before the pandemic led unemployment to heartbreaking levels, the GOP chairman’s record of job creation was dazzling: despite boasting about candidate Trump, the expansion of tasks in the United States fell in his first three years in the workplace compared to the previous 3 years. .
But even setting aside the important things applicable, it was anything else from Mulvaney’s studies that seemed important: Trump’s former right-wing man in the West Wing hopes the concheck 2020 probably isn’t a referendum on the president.
Mulvaney did not say that explicitly, but the implication of the comments was that if the election comes down to whether Americans like Donald Trump to have given them a saw, the maximum American electorate probably wouldn’t prefer four more years. prestige quo.
That’s never too much to mention that Mulvaney thinks the president is doing a bad job, but it turns out that a gigantic portion of the electorate will come to that conclusion.
No Republican seems so nervous about this cycle.
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