Donald J. Trump appears to be a stronger candidate than he was four years ago, polling suggests, and not just because a notable number of voters look back on his presidency as a time of relative peace and prosperity.
It’s also because his political liabilities, like his penchant to offend and his legal woes, don’t dominate the news the way they once did.
In the last New York Times/Siena College poll, only 38 percent of voters said they’d been offended by Mr. Trump “recently,” even as more than 70 percent said they had been offended by him at some point.
We didn’t ask a question like this back in 2016 or 2020 for comparison (unfortunately), but my subjective thumb-in-the-wind gauge says that, if we had, more voters would have said yes to the “recently offended” question.
Mr. Trump’s most outrageous comments just don’t dominate the news cycle the way they did four to eight years ago.
Persons:
Donald J, Trump, It’s, they’d
Organizations:
New York Times, Siena College