Pandemic comes back to bite Trump with only 3 months until election

05.08.2020, 13:01 ratel.kz

Republican President Donald TRUMP is in deep trouble just three months before the election, as the coronavirus pandemic has shown a resurgence in the United States in what could be the clearest sign yet of his failure in handling the public health crisis, Recent national polls suggest that Trump, who trails his Democratic rival Joe BIDEN, is less trusted on a range of issues he is facing, including the response to the pandemic, racial inequality and even the economy, which was long seen as the incumbent's strong point. "Donald Trump has been pretty much in freefall," Elaine KAMARCK, an expert on U.S. politics at the Brookings Institution, said in a recent webinar, attributing the downward s