Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

.@OANN Poll “Gives President Trump a 52% Approval Rating in North Carolina, and a seven point lead over (Sleepy) Joe Biden. The President also helps other Republican Candidates, including @SenThomTillis, who has a 4% lead over his Democrat rival.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2020

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Donald Trump's approval rating is 45%. Barack Obama's approval rating at the same point of his presidency (15 April 2012) was 46%.

Here is Ann Coulter's latest column.

Members of my family have been subscribers to the Chicago Tribune for over 100 years. I found Wednesday’s editorial (“The pandemic few saw coming”) disingenuous at best. The editorial board sought to compare the actions of Gov. J.B. Pritzker and President Donald Trump during this continuing health crisis. As far as I am concerned, the comparison should have been one of action by our governor and one of nonaction by our president.

The editorial also goes back to only mid-February, while it should have gone back to December or even further. When the current administration took office, it dissolved the pandemic preparedness office in the White House, and tossed the pandemic preparedness handbook made by the Obama administration. In December, the administration ignored warnings from its own intelligence people of a disease outbreak in China. In January, it ignored more intelligence warnings of a possible pandemic.

The president also began calling it a “hoax” and “fake news” created by the Democrats and the media. He closed flights from China, effective Feb. 2, true, but over 400,000 people from China still entered the country after the ban went into effect.

In February, he said it was under control and it was just the flu and would soon go away, “like a miracle.” While this was going on, the administration refused proven virus tests from the WHO in favor of ones created by the CDC (which it had cut funding for), which turned out to be useless.

Then, as states began to take action on their own in March, he did nothing to help. He ignored the implicit federal obligation to take care of states’ needs in time of crisis. We have not been governed by the Articles of Confederation since 1789. While the editorial board does criticize him for his inaction and slow response, it basically writes off his failures as “Trump, being Trump." Frankly, that is not good enough.

The board needs to follow the lead of the boards of other major newspapers around the country and condemn the president. Thousands of Americans are dying because of the failures of this government. There is no real comparison between our governor and our president: One acted, and one did nothing and continues to do nothing. It is time for the Tribune board to step up.

— Paul Breit, Tinley Park

Note from KBJ: President Trump is doing a magnificent job, Paul. Where are you getting your information? CNN?

GET RID OF BALLOT HARVESTING, IT IS RAMPANT WITH FRAUD. THE USA MUST HAVE VOTER I.D., THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN HONEST COUNT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 14, 2020

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Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.