(03-25-2020 08:39 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(03-25-2020 05:16 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-25-2020 04:40 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  grain of salt guys... clearly event driven... all it says is that the establishment left (and supposed independents like Tom who march in lock-step with them against Republicans) are NOT winning the argument that he's failing with actual independents.

I honestly think the difference is the people are at home, watching these press conferences where they get to hear and see EVERYTHING. They hear the questions and Trumps full answer. They hear his full opening statements. Thats a massive difference from the normal situation where the media feeds the public carefully edited snippets to drive a pre-determined divisive narrative. Instead, the people see all his comments and realize that the guy is pretty darn reasonable and its actually the WH press corp who is horribly negative and about half nuts.

Your logic is sound, and I can certainly see how more live TV, vice edited video clips, would make President Trump present better to the general public.

It is funny in our household, though, as we have always been big consumers of news and opinion shows. However, since the kind of, sort of lockdown, the television has very rarely been turned on. I guess people ride such things in their own way.

Apparently, his press conferences are logging ratings that are right up there with The Bachelor and Monday Night Football.