NBC: Trump Stokes Fear While 64% of Supporters Are Hopeful

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 11, 2020
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In a Sunday Meet the Press where host Chuck Todd repeatedly suggested Joe Biden was going to get Ronald Reagan-like sweep for his candidate Joe Biden, a couple of the statements that stood out the most came from chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson. Between admitting President Trump’s supporters were hope while he as miserable and it being “technically accurate” that he’s denounced racism multiple times, it was clear she was dealing in Orwellian doublespeak.

During the first panel discussion Todd brought up recent Pew Research poll that most of Biden’s supporters were fearful about the future of the country:

This issue of who's hopeful and who's fearful. This was fascinating in Pew. Your feelings on the state of the country and they asked a general question, are you fearful, or are you hopeful? What was interesting is while the majority of the country said they're fearful, Biden supporters, Hallie Jackson, were more likely for fearful. 79 percent of Biden supporters call themselves fearful, Trump supporter called themselves hopeful 64 percent. I will say this, fear motivates. The Trump supporters were more fearful four years ago and that worked

Acknowledging the poll, Jackson proclaimed that it meant the Democrats would do better in November and decried Republicans for trying “to take that and spin it as Democrats are the ones painting a dark and dystopian message to try to motivate people to come out polls.”

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