Thin marginsAt rallies and on Twitter, Trump has accused the "fake news lamestream media" of focusing on "Covid, Covid, Covid" to hurt his reelection chances. The virus has hindered his efforts since the start of the campaign. Surveys for several months now have shown that Americans are judging their leader poorly when it comes to the virus. These types of polls are too general to detect if there will be a so-called "Covid-19 effect" on the election. They drew on more 300,000 survey responses from the summers of 2019 and 2020, then tied that to local Covid-19 death rates, concluding the pandemic may have significantly damaged public support for Trump.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 01, 2020 08:48 UTC