Why blaming China for the pandemic probably won’t help Pres. Trump win in November, via FiveThirtyEight:
Additionally, given that the U.S. is dealing with a major health crisis, an economic downturn and protests across the country, Beckley and Shirk both told me they were somewhat dubious of the idea that either Republicans or Democrats would be able to rally voters around China. Shirk said that unlike some other topics in the news, U.S. relations with China just aren’t as personal to voters.
“Even though the Trump administration can claim a lot of credit for altering U.S.-China policy and taking a harder-line turn, Trump has said a lot of nice things about Xi Jinping and has been willing to look the other way on China’s human rights violations,” said Beckley. And Republicans will likely paint Biden as belonging to an administration that had a “naive” approach toward China, Beckley said, “basically coddling a rising power.
But China might play an outsized role in the election if Trump successfully uses it as a scapegoat for the pandemic, allowing him tofor his response onto China. Brian Reisinger, a Republican strategist who advised Sen.
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