Furthermore, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and Mr. Trump’s presumptive 2020 Democratic opponent, was “never the leader” in making the most-favored-nation status permanent for China, said Gary Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. status was not a ‘tremendous advantage’ for China,” Mr. Hufbauer said. Got very poor marks from Gallup on the job they did on swine flu. By April, just 50 percent approved of Mr. Trump’s response. Overall, about 56.7 percent of Americans now disapprove of Mr. Trump’s response, according to polls aggregated by FiveThirtyEight.

Source: International New York Times July 15, 2020 03:11 UTC