Facing non-stop bad news this week, the President dumped a long-time aide as campaign manager and turned White House speeches into rants about Joe Biden
At a Thursday event on the White House lawn celebrating his administration’s efforts to abolish regulations on business, the President promised to take back control of the national agenda.Less than four months from Election Day, U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term is hitting new lows. The coronavirus pandemic, which he is widely accused of mishandling, is out of control and shows no sign of abating. His polling has cratered, including in key swing states.
The move is part of a broader reset. On Wednesday, the President demoted Brad Parscale, who spent more than two years managing the re-election campaign and has worked for Mr. Trump since before he got into politics. Mr. Parscale’s missteps included a disastrous rally in Tulsa, Okla., last month, at which Mr. Trump spoke to just 6,000 supporters in a two-thirds empty arena.
The President has taken fire from across the political spectrum for failing to lead the country’s COVID-19 response. In a Washington Post op-ed Thursday, Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan described buying coronavirus tests from South Korea because the Trump administration would not provide them.
The White House, for instance, has even picked a fight with Anthony Fauci, one of its own public-health officials. Staffers circulated talking points to reporters accusing Dr. Fauci of being wrong on the pandemic, presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro published an anti-Fauci op-ed in USA Today and Dan Scavino, the White House’s communications director, posted a cartoon on Facebook portraying Mr. Fauci as an alarmist. Dr.
Such tactics worked for Mr. Trump the last time he was running for president, when he built his bid on promising to keep Latino immigrants and Muslims out of the country. He even went through a similar purge of top aides, when Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon took over from Paul Manafort.“If you go back to 2016, it’s not as though the Donald Trump campaign was a finely tuned machine,” said David Lublin, an associate professor of government at American University. Still, he contended, Mr.
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