Who benefits from Trump’s Covid infection?

[Horus]

Easily Trump. This will energize his base like never before and with some nasty comments from his detractors all but guaranteed, he'll build up some sympathy.

[Horus]

Easily Trump. This will energize his base like never before and with some nasty comments from his detractors all but guaranteed, he'll build up some sympathy.

As if his base weren't energized.

Not at 2016 levels they weren't. They will be now, mark my words.

[Horus]

Easily Trump. This will energize his base like never before and with some nasty comments from his detractors all but guaranteed, he'll build up some sympathy.

As if his base weren't energized.

Not at 2016 levels they weren't. They will be now, mark my words.

Dude, really?  You actually believe this?

As TSA pointed out above, Johnson's approval shot up almost 30% after his diagnosis. Is this a hail Mary? Perhaps, but if anyone can make a con work it's this monster.

[Horus]

I think it benefits Trump for a few reasons.

First, call it sympathy voting or rally around the flag, most people have empathy (even some republicans) and that could give Trump a bump, just like it did with the similarly idiotic right wing populists Bolsonaro and Johnson. Remember that they also botched the covid response, like Trump.

Second, it will make it harder for democrats to push the case against Trump, which is largely based on how imcompetent and anti-democratic Trump is. Those attacks will seem mean if Trump is hospitalized, essentially handicapping democrats messaging.

Third, Trump is losing this election. He needs a gamechanger. This might not be it, but it COULD be. Worst case for him is that he still loses. Best case is that this turns it around.

Overall, unless he dies, I don't see how this is bad for Trump.

Yes, yes, everything is good for Trump.

Ruining a debate, good for Trump. Catching COVID, good for Trump. Not denouncing White supremacy, good for Trump.

We get it.

I mean you, Alben and Monstro literally think everything is bad for Trump so...

[Horus]

Oh. My. God.

You just know the usual characters in this thread pushing a Trump sympathy vote would be raining doom and gloom about Biden's electoral prospects down on all of us if this had happened to Biden instead.

Well, there are different standards for Democrats. When one party is broadly and subconsciously viewed by many as the "caregiving, maternalistic" party and the other the "entrepreneurial, paternalistic" party, standards will be different.

[Horus]

This is like if a politician who fought tooth and nail against mandatory seatbelts in cars ended up in the hospital with serious injuries because he got in a car accident while not wearing a seatbelt.

There will be no sympathy bump.

Tell that to Johnson and Bolsonaro

Whatever sympathy approval rating they had, went down after recovery.

A temporary bump is all he needs, this is all about timing.

[Horus]

This is like if a politician who fought tooth and nail against mandatory seatbelts in cars ended up in the hospital with serious injuries because he got in a car accident while not wearing a seatbelt.

There will be no sympathy bump.

Tell that to Johnson and Bolsonaro

Whatever sympathy approval rating they had, went down after recovery.

A temporary bump is all he needs, this is all about timing.

Keep in mind a temporary bump is just temporary. It can fizzled out fast.

Trump walking out of the WH in two weeks to cheers with a new plan to take on COVID would create a 2-3 week bump, possibly a big one, at exactly the right time. The man does not want to go to prison and desperately wants to win, far more than any of his supporters even do.