Post Trump infection polls show no "sympathy vote" bump for Trump

[Dr. Jack]

I've been hearing from some Republicans this weekend that Trump becoming severely ill due to his own stupidity and arrogance would somehow help his polling numbers. We've been told tales of a "sympathy vote" or rally around the flag kind of reaction to Trump being in the hospital.

Yeah, no. Some of the first polls out conducted completely after news broke of Trump catching coronavirus and how it has affected the presidential election are here. And they ain't looking good for President Superspreader. It is just two polls so far but any predictions that this would somehow help Trump are of course proving to be total fantasy on the part of the very desperate MAGA crowd.

Here's what the numbers say

ABC News: Has Trump been taking coronavirus seriously/did he do enough to protect himself from infection?

27% yes
72% no

ABC News: Are you concerned about contracting coronavirus?

72% before Trump infection
80% after Trump infection


Reuters/Ipsos: Has Trump taken proper precautions to protect himself?

Yes: 36%
No: 64%

Reuters/Ipsos: Is Trump telling the truth about coronavirus in general?

Yes: 34%
No: 55%

Reuters/Ipsos: General election

Pre-Debate/Trump infection: Biden +8
Post-Debate/Trump infection: Biden +10


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-virus-precautions-poll/story?id=73411221&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_heads_hero_live_hero_hed

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-poll-idUSKBN26P0DT

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/polls-biden-lead-widens-trump-coronavirus-seriously-avoided.html

[Thekaspervote]

1. Good! A lot of posts have pointed to Boris Johnson in the UK..that is completely different

This proves it

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Excellent post, I want to copy

You mind if I copy it and post it elsewhere?

[Dr. Jack]

3. Go for it, spread the news

[beachbumbob]

4. deeper look is the gOP voter has LITTLE sympathy for trumps COVID

[NCDem47]

6. Of course not!

They're cold, callous Death Eaters. Even for one of their own.

Dog-eat-dog.

Every man for himself.

[beachbumbob]

17. 50% of GOP polled places blame on trump

[Beakybird]

8. True. These people have small hearts, limited sympathy, and only for their group.

[gratuitous]

5. The people have applied the Margaritaville test to Trump

In the Jimmy Buffet song "Margaritaville," the singer is famously wasting away again in Margaritaville. At first, he says it's nobody's fault. Then he concedes that it could be his fault, and finally concludes that it's his own damn fault for his condition.

The people have judged that Trump's condition is his own damn fault.

[malaise]

7. Great post

Rec

[central scrutinizer]

9. Any news on Drumpf's fundraising post-infection?

I imagine the cultists are digging deep hoping their god-king will look kindly upon them.

[Claustrum]

10. Nate Cohn has said that their AZ poll interviews show no sympathy votes so far and this confirms it

Though, I would say, he is not severely ill at least according to how they frame their message so far. Moreover, I would be curious if the "sympathy votes" would be more state based, red states will shore up their support while swing/blue states would not. And swing states might even move away from Trump if they are hit hard by COVID.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. It's pretty hard to feel sympathy for someone

who likes to nap on a railroad track and winds up in the hospital after being run over by a train.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Or waves his Uber long tie at a bull.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I am sure that the die-hard Trumpers are even more

behind him now. And there might have been a tiny number of those who somehow were wavering about which man to vote for who are now going with Trump out of a misguided sympathy. But more of those "undecideds" are going to completely abandon any support for him. Whether they vote for Biden instead, or some other candidate, or don't vote at all remains to be seen.

If Trump were to pass away within the next few days, with Pence becoming the nominee instead or if the Republican Party selects someone else to be at the top of the ticket with Pence remaining in the VP slot, if that new nominee is seen as more acceptable, not as extreme as Trump, then things suddenly get more competitive. Even so, already over 3 million people have voted and returned their ballots, and the closer we get to November 3, the greater percentage of people will have voted.

[Arthur_Frain]

14. If anything, once this fully processes,

there will be a loss of support. I don’t care how reptilian your brain is, eventually, on a self preservation level, the medulla oblangata says “Enough!”.

Honestly, I think they were able to dismiss Cains death as an insider because no matter what they say all blacks in the Republican Party are really just tokens anyway. Useful tools to be put away or discarded when their usefulness has run its course.

We’re getting enough white folks in power in this outbreak to make any deaths something they will have to acknowledge, ‘cause it’s been crickets about Cain since square one. Morbid, but true, we’re waiting for a death that counts for them.

[TruckFump]

15. Makes me think of this:

A teenager murders both his parents and seeks the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

Trump got no sympathy because "it is what it is."

[SWBTATTReg]

16. I still think he's lying that he has got the CV, and besides, he's had no empathy for any of the...

numerous CV victims thus far in our Country, going so far to almost demand outright that the governor and mayor of NYC pay homage to him in order to get more ventilators for their sick CV patients. Traitor.

[Blue Owl]

18. Biden deserves the sympathy votes

Trump can burn in hell.

[Illumination]

19. Hope the White House door didn't hit him in the ass when he left!...

[onetexan]

20. ehehe i'm laughing @the "sympathy bump" LOL

if this is true, to think the lengths this Fool would go to get a bump in the polls. It had the adverse effect. Biden got the bump