Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Sinking in the Polls, Trump Tweets About Lobsters

Giveaways to targeted constituencies simply aren’t effective for a president who can’t tell the truth.

June 25, 2020 at 11:30 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Yesterday began with a New York Times poll that was pretty awful for President Donald Trump, and I was contemplating writing a complicated item about whether we should pay attention to such surveys at this point in the election cycle. But then the lobsters.