NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Republicans in Wisconsin pushed through state elections recently in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Jessica Jaglowski wore a protective mask and headed for the ballot box, determining her best contended self-preservation was not to stay home but to vote Republicans out of office.
FILE IMAGE: Poll employees stand inside Hamilton High School during the presidential primary election, held in the middle of the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) outbreak, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., April 7,2020 REUTERS/Daniel Acker/File Picture
Come November, when Republican President Donald Trump is up for re-election, Jaglowski, a 47- year-old Democrat in Milwaukee, states she will be a lot more identified to vote, even if the lethal infection continues to ravage her neighborhood.
” He’s half the reason we remain in this mess right now,” she stated, slamming Trump for minimizing the danger of COVID-19 before it struck the country hard. “If I have to wait in line for 12 hours, in a storm, I don’t care. I’m choosing whoever can get Trump out.”
After 3 years in the White Home, this much about Trump is clear: Those who want to deny him the presidency are much more determined to vote now than they were 4 years ago.
Democrats’ intention to vote is also rising more than it is among Republicans, both nationally and in historically competitive battlefield states like Wisconsin that Trump narrowly won in 2016, according to more than 66,000 U.S. grownups who took the Reuters/Ipsos online poll in the very first quarter of 2020 or2016
The highly encouraged opposition is another sign of problem for Trump, who saw his chief argument for re-election – a soaring economy and record-low unemployment – evaporate amid a health crisis that has put millions of Americans out of work.
Even before the pandemic, Trump had a hard time to woo independents and moderates he would require to win November’s election, and current surveys showed Trump trailing presum