You act like the White House operates in a total vacuum.Trump was pretty close to winning. Honestly, re-election was his to lose. He has an extremely loyal base that has insulated themselves from outside information. His turnout was very good on Election Day. I don’t think it would have taken much to push him over the edge. Maybe the vaccine news would have helped. Maybe landing a large stimulus package would have done it. I don’t know but he was close.
Actually Trump saw the writing on the wall. The economy was struck by the coronavirus, and as James Carville told Clinton in 1992, "It's the economy stupid".
Trump tried to keep the economy up, by playing the virus down. But as Sir Isaac Newton said, whatever goes up, must come down. But Trump took a partisan view, seeing the virus striking chiefly democratic states, he was happy to see the virus rage away, and did little to get it under control.
But when it spread, as it was bound to do, to his "red" states, it was too late to do anything to control it, and it spiraled out of control.
The coronavirus hurt the economy, and the economy hurt Trump.
Before the virus became an excuse to destroy the economy, the Democraps were busy impeaching the president for doing his fucking job.
Trump was the first person in Washington to act when the media started their big lockdown push.
The Democrats immediately called him a Xenophobe and a racist.
Many of them secretly thanked him for his quick actions.....but in public they called him a racist.
The economy was directly effected by draconian lockdowns forced on the public by Democrat mayors and governors. Thousands of small businesses went under. Massive unemployment resulted.
Then the Democrats started their riots using George Floyd as an excuse.
It was all just intended to crash the economy.
Today Biden officials are calling for more lockdowns so they can cause another depression.
None of this shit is Trump's fault, idiot.