'Really, the job that we’ve done is incredible,' U.S. President Donald Trump told the convention’s opening day. 'None of us get any credit'
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Wayne Fruchey, a retired welder, said Mr. Trump was not to blame for COVID-19 spiralling out of control. “It wasn’t him. It was the governors of the liberal states,” said Mr. Fruchey, 76. “The best way to deal with the coronavirus is to follow the experts,” said Karl Besteder, an 82-year-old retired airline customer service representative, who wore a bandanna across his nose and mouth as he stood across the street with an anti-Trump sign.Melissa Hady, a school counsellor, said she had extended a visit home to Pennsylvania after South Carolina, the Republican-dominated state where she lives, lifted COVID-19 containment measures swiftly and faced a surge of infections.
But at the convention, the President has been instead portrayed as an active chief executive. “One leader took decisive action to save lives,” a narrator intoned in one segment. In another, Mr. Trump said he had “launched the greatest mobilization of American society since World War Two.” Larry Kudlow, the President’s economic adviser, suggested the pandemic was as good as over with: “Get ready for a big third and fourth quarter, folks,” he said.
A Monmouth University poll this month found that 57 per cent of respondents felt Mr. Trump was doing a bad job with COVID-19, up 12 percentage points since March. But Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth’s polling centre, said Mr. Trump is so polarizing that roughly 90 per cent of voters had their minds made up years ago how they would vote in 2020.
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