It’s truly an incredible effort by Perrine here, one that I have to applaud for its sheer audacity.

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Naturally, Perrine felt her words were taken out of context, and she shared the rest of the clip, which honestly didn’t really add anything new! But if you want to watch her recycle some tired Republican talking points about Biden, his son Hunter, and China, here you go:

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Perrine wasn’t the only one on Monday who attempted to paint Trump as a man of (hahaha) empathy and compassion. “I think that he is going to be able to relate to those individuals who’ve been inflicted by coronavirus, who’ve lost a family member to coronavirus,” said campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp on Fox News, of a man who, when asked to talk about the fact that covid-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, said, “It is what it is.”


Instead of reading the millions of stories about the MAGA crowd outside of Walter Reed hospital, why not read instead about the vast majority of Americans who think Donald Trump is supremely dumb for doing everything humanly possible to get covid-19?

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According to a new ABC/Ipsos poll, 72 percent of voters think the man “did not take the ‘risk of contracting the virus seriously enough,’ nor ‘the appropriate precautions when it came to his personal health.’” This includes a not-insignificant percent of Republicans—43 percent, according to the poll—and basically every single Democratic voter.

And in another bit of bad news for Trump, despite his entreaty to not be afraid of covid-19, a growing number of Americans are becoming even more afraid of getting covid-19, including a good chunk of Republican voters. Again, via ABC News:

In the wake of Trump’s diagnosis, the survey also found an increasing number of Americans concerned that they, or someone they know, will be infected with the virus. Eighty-one percent are either very or somewhat concerned about contracting COVID-19, compared to 72% two weeks ago. The percentage of “very concerned” respondents rose 8 percentage points, from 29% to 37%.

The overall jump can be almost entirely attributed to Republicans, whose net concern increased 18 points (52% to 70%), and independents, whose concern increased 13 points (69% to 82%). Democrats held steady at 86%.

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In other polling news, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has Joe Biden up 14 points nationally and Trump is tanking in Arizona.

These terrible numbers might explain why Trump announced today that he’s leaving the hospital, though the optics of him hitting the campaign trail again don’t seem like they’ll hit the way he wants them to.

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And let’s all remember:

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