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Polls: Trump trails in Wisconsin as state's coronavirus cases surge
Two new polls released Wednesday show President Trump continuing to trail in Wisconsin, a state where COVID-19 cases are surging while the president downplays the virus.
A Marquette Law poll found former Vice President Joe Biden with a 5-point lead, 48 to 43 percent, relatively unchanged from the respected survey’s early October results. ABC News/Washington Post also released a poll Wednesday showing the Democrat up 17 points in Wisconsin, an outlier from previous surveys of the state.
Trump’s political struggles in Wisconsin come amid its ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus that is the worst in the nation. On Tuesday, Wisconsin set records for new cases and deaths, with the death toll now standing at 1,852. On Monday, the state passed 200,000 cases, with half of them coming in the past 36 days.
Some hospitals are struggling to keep up with the cases, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just canceled an upcoming football game, the first Big Ten game scrapped due to the virus.
“It’s a nightmare scenario, frankly, that this could get quite a bit worse in the next several weeks or months before it gets better,” said Dr. Ryan Westergaard, a medical officer with the state health department, in a call with reporters.
“It’s the worst it’s ever been. The concerning thing is that this has been going on for several weeks and it doesn’t seem like we’ve peaked,” said Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Health.
In the ABC News/Washington Post poll, Trump’s net approval rating for the handling of the pandemic is at negative-20, double what it was in September. The Marquette Law poll found similar results, with 40 percent approving of Trump’s response to the pandemic versus 58 percent disapproval, a dip from the May numbers.
Despite the state’s ongoing health crisis, Trump has continued to downplay the pandemic amid mass rallies that have experts worried about further spread of the virus. Trump held a rally in West Salem, Wis., on Tuesday, and further criticized local lockdown efforts meant to curb the virus’s spread.
