Protests in the United States: Donald Trump in bad shape

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As protests continue in the United States to denounce the systemic racism of the American police after the death of George Floyd, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the return to law and order. Five months before the presidential election, the host of the White House is challenged for his management of the crisis.

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With our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet

Donald Trump has repeatedly assured him on Twitter: he has done more for the black community than any president, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery. But the tenant of the White House describes the tens of thousands of Americans who have been marching for more than a week in defense of the rights of blacks in the United States as hordes of delinquents, extremists who seek to sow chaos.

My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. Passed Opportunity Zones with @SenatorTimScott, guaranteed funding for HBCU's, School Choice, passed Criminal Justice Reform, lowest Black unemployment, poverty, and crime rates in history…

If you watch Fake News @CNN or MSDNC, you would think that the killers, terrorists, arsonists, anarchists, thugs, hoodlums, looters, ANTIFA & others, would be the nicest, kindest most wonderful people in the Whole Wide World. No, they are what they are - very bad for our Country!

However 55% of Americans disapprove of his handling of the crisis. Worse, five months before the election, Donald Trump loses his lead in polls in states he took for granted. He is thus neck and neck with Joe Biden in Texas where George Floyd will be buried, and in Ohio, a State which he had won with almost ten points in advance in 2016. The Democratic candidate is by elsewhere in the lead in Wisconsin and Arizona, two states that Donald Trump is counting on to secure a second term.

In this difficult political context, the president must also face the rebuffs of his secretary of defense who declared to be opposed to the deployment of soldiers he envisaged.

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