Fox News Poll: Majority Prefer Biden on Policing and Criminal Justice
September 14, 2020
Donald Trump (Gage Skidmore)
By News Corpse (from the Daily Kos community)
For the past several months Donald Trump has been trying to portray Joe Biden as mentally unfit to perform the duties of the presidency. Trump acts out his inner infant by referring to Biden with childish nicknames like "Slow" and/or "Sleepy" Joe. It's an embarrassing display of desperation by an emotionally stunted candidate who relies entirely on lies and fear mongering.
However, Trump's frantic campaign of lame insults has not taken hold among America's voters. He is behind in every national poll, as well as in most of the critical battleground states. Think about that. Trump is losing bigly to a candidate that he says is not only mentally deficient, but also a radical socialist bent on destroying America. If you can't beat someone like that, you might as well give up.
In the latest Fox News poll (which Trump has a love/hate relationship with), Biden is beating Trump with a majority of likely voters (51-46%). Biden's favorables are positive (54-45%), while Trump's are underwater (46-53%). Biden is also leading on an array of the issues most important to the electorate. According to Fox News...
"Likely voters trust Trump over Biden on just one issue: the economy, by 5 points. Biden is favored on racial inequality (+12), coronavirus (+8), health care (+8), Supreme Court nominations (+7), and immigration (+7 points). Voters also trust Biden over Trump on 'policing and criminal justice' (+7), while the two are rated about evenly on 'maintaining law and order' (Biden +2)."
Trump has been especially obsessed of late with what he is characterizing as a nation besieged by violent insurrectionists like Black Lives Matter (a peaceful equal justice advocacy movement) and Antifa (a figment of Trump's imagination). So it's particularly notable that Biden is regarded by voters as the better candidate on policing and Trump's adopted catch phrase, "law and order." His hysterical rhetoric is having zero effect on voters, or worse (from his perspective), it's alienating them and driving them in the opposite direction.
Perhaps the most noteworthy finding in this poll is that voters regard Biden as more fit mentally than Trump. The poll shows a majority of 51% attesting to Biden's mental soundness. Conversely, Trump has a majority of 51% worried about his mental infirmity. This poll replicates the results of similar poll by Fox News two months ago. So once again, Trump's barrage of malicious slander has failed to turn voters against Biden. Instead, his prepubescent pettiness appears to have splashed back in his face.
Another poll by ABC/Ipsos has more bad news for Trump. In addition to a broad majority (65%) disapproving of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic (which he was caught lying about), the poll found that "Most Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin (61-37%), think Biden has more respect for those who serve in uniform than Trump does." So Trump has utterly failed to convince anyone of his phony devotion to the military. That isn't surprising considering he's a five-time draft dodger who insults POWS, steals from veterans' charities, and thinks fallen soldiers are losers and suckers.
Trump's tantrums are having the opposite effect of what they intended. Everything that he has embraced as the core issues of his propaganda output is turning out to be more advantageous for Biden. This should be a slap upside the head to those who believed that Trump was a marketing genius. The truth is that he's a bumbling failure who can be expected to ruin any project that he so incompetently mishandles. It should be abundantly clear now that everything he touches turns to ...let's just say... bull manure.
Posted with permission