>> Trump's approval rating has apparently hit a new low, 45%. This is across six battleground
states. Their general polls inaugural from either, but let's see what we can learn from
some of these poll recently. We've got surveys of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin found 45% approval of Trump's overall job performance versus
55% disapproval.
We're gonna delve into some particular areas in just a second. But, my immediate reaction
is that I understand that many people will see that and think, well, that's good. Trump's
bad. And so he's not doing particularly well in these battleground states. That's bad for
him in election, but I also look at that and think he's at 45%.
>> How many ways can one fail? What heights of failure can one ascend to? And still 45%,
you're like no, that's good, let's do more of it.
>> I'm sorry. It really is the extent of hyper partisanship in this country, right? I hate
having to give these intellectual replies to absurd situations, right?
Who the hell are these people like they're effin morons man like but they are so committed
to their partisanship that they will interpret everything that Donald Trump does as something
that is successful. Or if it's unsuccessful, then they create this entire conspiracy theory
around it, enter qanon. So they have their coping mechanisms to make sure that they never
have to come to terms with the reality that they signed up with a sadistic, ego maniacal
narcissist who's potentially gona get this country killed.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah, country killed us enough, that's
funny. >> Exactly, yeah, over under, how many Ebola
deaths could Obama have presided over before those 45% were more mad at him than they are
at Trump for 135,000 or so? >> I mean, that's a tough one, right?
Cuz they already looking at the H1N1, right, and saying that that 12,500 were a complete
failure of the of the Obama administration. So they really do put more emphasis. I mean,
I don't know how you look at death, especially people that are related to you. It's not as
though the only people are dying are liberals, all right?
We got conservatives that are dying, evangelicals that are dying. And yet they're still able
to politicize it to the point where they can keep their blinders on and see it as a partisan
issue. So I don't think that there is a number to be quite honest with you.
>> Yeah, yeah, you're 100% right. Like, what are the hotspots? Florida, Texas, Arizona,
yes. >> Yes, Georgia.
>> Georgia, California. But if you look at what some of these like beach communities
are doing, or in California, even that kind of partisan, it seems like it's probably gonna
be disproportionately Republicans there.
May be their leaders should start to take it more seriously. But a little bit more from
these polls. On the economy, 55% of respondents said former Vice President Joe Biden and the
Democrats would do a better job of making healthcare more affordable, compared to 45%,
who favored Trump and Republicans.
Survey also found 53% of battleground voters believe Biden in the democrats would do a
better job putting the middle class first. I hope, I hope, you got to be difficult not
to, but,- >> You have two kind of weird things going
on with that data, right? It kind of parallels what you just said, like, how many people
have to lose their jobs?
We're really at depression levels of unemployment, we're approaching them. We have 5.4 million
people who lost their healthcare, how can 45% still support Donald Trump but then at
the same time you have the stock market that is booming, right? You have a Chase, JPMorgan
Chase, who posted record profit margins.
And so it really shows that there's a fracture in this solidarity that they have around neoliberal
economic policies that benefit Wall Street versus Main Street. But still, that crack
should be an entire chasm at this point because of how bad it is for most Americans.
>> Yeah, and exactly what you're saying, the crack exists but should be a chasm.
Let's focus on coronavirus in these battleground states. So a little bit of good news for people
who want the citizens around them to have an attachment to reality. The survey also
found a 4% increase in the number of voters who said the coronavirus pandemic is getting
worse. Up to 59% from 55%, and the issue is that it's not like your opinion whether it's
getting worse, more people are getting sick, more people are in the hospital, deaths are
going up.
I guess we could have sort of a philosophical discussion about, I don't know, it is getting
worse. It's not up to us to decide. But the crazy number then is on the topic or the coronavirus
specifically, 54% said Biden and the Democrats would do a better job compared to 46% for
Trump and the Republicans.
>> I don't wanna talk about that, not only because 135,000 Americans killed, right? There's
literally, no, this is when people ask me who I'm gonna vote for. I'm a leftist, I wanted
Bernie Sanders. I wanted somebody for left than Bernie Sanders, and then they talk about
Biden versus Trump.
The fact of the matter is, is with regard to COVID-19, there would have been no comparison.
They will probably be 60 to 70,000 people still alive now, if a Democrat was in charge
of managing this crisis. Or hell, even if George W Bush, as ridiculous as he was with
Katrina, he would not have been so incompetent, so feckless and done and made decisions that
led directly to the debt the people, I'm sorry.
>> Exactly, yeah, not only would that huge chunk of people like if Biden was President,
that huge chunk of people would still be alive. But even with a far lower death count, they
would be running full steam the Republicans to replace him based on his failures. 54%
say Biden would do a better job, 46% say Trump would do a better job.
I don't want Biden in so that Biden can do a better job. I want Biden in so Biden can
do a job because they have been AWOL for months. >> Yeah.
>> And the only thing worse than Trump's indifference to the virus is the occasional bit of time
when he's sort of taken an interest, when he starts talking about UV lights and about
bleach.
And about how testing is bad and all of that. He has 46% basically approval on this, on
a thing that he has apparently been rooting for the virus for months now. We live in Wonderland,
I don't even know what it is. >> We live in the upside down and we are living
in the bad time line.
>> We live in the upside down but hoppers rootin for the demoGorgon.
>> Okay, and again, more evidence of the fact that we live in the upside down is Joe Biden
currently leads Donald Trump by five points in Texas.
>> We could take that one. >> What is going on?
And every time I see something like that, I think it can't actually come true. We can't
actually win Texas, especially considering some of these other numbers we've talked about.
But I don't know, maybe it's possible. If it happens, Ben, there's no election at that
point, right, like it's not a question if Texas goes for the Democrats.
>> Right, right, this is Joe Biden's campaign to lose, right? This is an election to lose.
In fact, this is a landslide for him to lose. There is literally no reason that Joe Biden
should not run up the scoreboard like Ronald Reagan did. It was a 1980. The 1980 election,
there's really no reason except for the fact that he has a couple of trouble spots.
That if he's not careful of, it could end up being a close race and potentially erase
that he can lose. So, I hope that the Democrats don't get too comfortable with these positive
numbers. >> Exactly, and a few of the trouble spots
been obviously, there's significant policy issues with Biden from the past.
The issue is that for the Republicans, they would have to point out those things while
pretending that they didn't support them at the time. The things that we hate about Biden
were things that he was doing that was way to right-wing. But they're gonna attack them
as if they weren't doing that they weren't cheering on the same wars and all of that.
But look, at least that substance you can go after him on that. What do you think about
the debates? I know that Trump and his team are sort of expecting that Trump is gonna
destroy Biden of the debates and that's going to significantly swing this thing. Do you
think that that's likely?
>> No, I don't think that's likely and I hate to be this guy, but I don't know what they
gave Joe Biden before he debated Bernie Sanders heads up. I hate to be that guy but that was
a totally different Joe Biden, right, that was a Joe Biden who brought his very best
A game.
I don't know maybe he just got enough sleep, maybe it was nothing, maybe he just got a
really good Sealy posturepedic and got a good night's rest. If he can manage to do that
then, no, Donald Trump isn't gonna run up the score board, but I don't know if he's
gonna be able to do that.
And can you do that for an entire two hours, but he does have the advantage of not doing
a whole lot of traveling so maybe he's getting plenty of rest. I hope he is