Less than five months before voters will decide his fate, U.S. President Donald Trump is confronting a vastly different political reality than he once envisioned. For starters, if the election were held today, he'd likely lose.
The president, West Wing advisers and campaign aides have grown increasingly concerned about his reelection chances as they've watched Trump's standing take a pummeling first on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and now during a nationwide wave of protests against racial injustice. His allies worry that the president has achieved something that his November foe had so far been unable to do: igniting enthusiasm in a Democratic Party base that has been lukewarm to former U.S.
Trump aides have warned the president that the renewed national conversation about racial injustice and the president's big "law and order" push have animated parts of the Democratic base -- black and younger voters -- whose lagging enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton in 2016 cleared the way for Trump's narrow victory.
The White House seized on better-than-expected economic news Friday -- the nation added 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate fell -- with an over-the-top victory lap, selling it as a sign of a post-pandemic economic comeback that the president's advisers believe will be the single most important factor in victory in November.
"A lot of Americans know of Joe Biden, but not too many know Joe Biden. And our job is to educate voters about the real Joe Biden," said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtagh. "He's sided with the rioters. He's barely made a passing reference to all the violence that happened. Black Americans care about safe communities, too."
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