That's obvious given a campaign strategy still mirroring a 2016 campaign playbook that played to White grievances with promises to stop migrants ("Build a wall"), bigotry (calls for a Muslim travel ban) and empty promises of making America great again. Unsurprisingly, a Fox News poll released Sunday found that the top issue of concern to Americans -- by far -- was Covid-19. (Trump's top 2016 issue of immigration came in at ninth, with only 2% saying it was "the most important issue" in 2020.) Same goes for Trump's defending Confederate monuments and Confederate flags as being about "heritage" and "free speech." Trump's bigoted campaign may have worked in 2016, but today people want a leader who will address the life and death issues of Covid-19 and the economic calamity the US is suffering.

Source: CNN July 19, 2020 21:33 UTC