President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in the past few days has been hit by strikes that exposed the level of tension among its leadership ranks.
Trump announced the change of his campaign manager Brad Parskill and the appointment of his deputy Bill Stephen as new director, in an effort to inject new energy and change the campaign strategy.
Amid great American suffering from the consequences of the Corona virus outbreak on the economic situation, the number of unemployed reached 32 million, and the continuing protests condemning the killing of African Americans at the hands of the police, many blame Trump for his handling of these developments.
Change campaign manager
Changing the campaign manager for Trump came less than 4 months before the election, but the reality the campaign is going through goes beyond changing his campaign manager to another manager, especially since he is from the same team.
News reports revealed that the change of the Trump campaign manager with his deputy will not reflect "any major changes in the campaign strategy."
During a meeting that gathered 200 Trump campaign workers, at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, neighboring Washington, Stephen urged campaign staff to ignore what he described as a media-driven account that Trump was losing to Joe Biden, and called on them to intensify their efforts during the final and decisive phase of the campaign. .
News reports had indicated tension inside the White House, which was reflected in Trump's anger that Biden continued to lead him in various important polls, even those conducted by "Fox News" near him.
Trump showed great anger at the vacancy of most of the attendees during his electoral conference last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma, especially as Trump stated before the event that millions wanted to attend.
David From, a Republican expert and author of former President George W. Bush, considered that the Trump campaign manager is not responsible for the deterioration of Trump figures in various opinion polls, "Trump is responsible, not the director of his campaign," as he mentioned in his tweet.
On the other hand, the continued outbreak of the Corona virus in Florida caused the Republican Party to retreat from holding the party's general conference in the traditional manner between 24 and 28 of next month in Jacksonville, where at least 20,000 people were expected to attend.
Attending the conference will be limited to the official delegates only, and whose number does not exceed 2500 people, provided that each delegate is allowed to invite one person to attend the closing session during which Trump announces accepting the party's nomination.
Recent opinion polls confirm that Trump is behind his opponent Biden in the presidential elections scheduled for November 3.
A Quinnipac University poll conducted on 1,273 voters between 9 and 13 this month indicated that 52% support Biden, while Trump won only 37%.
ABC NEWS and The Wall Street Journal, conducted on July 9-12, have 900 voters, indicating 51% support for the Biden election, while Trump received support 40%.
Biden received 50% of the vote, according to the New York Times poll, in cooperation with Sina College, between 17 and 22 of last month, and 1,337 American voters were surveyed.
Bill Kristol, the famous Republican commentator in a tweet, blamed Trump, and said that some of this decline had come from within his party, especially from the non-Trump faction in the party. "In short, Trump does not have a general problem, but he does have a Republican problem," he said.
He failed to face Corona
The New York Times poll revealed that 60% of Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of the emerging Corona pandemic, especially as infection numbers continue to rise and deaths reach unprecedented rates.
Trump's dissatisfaction with the performance of Trump increased compared to that in the past, as it reached 53% in the previous May, while in March it was only 45%.
The United States recorded 70,000 new cases of the Corona virus on Thursday, marking a new record daily toll, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The total number of deaths due to HIV infection has risen to more than 138,000, and the total number of infections has exceeded 3 and a half million.
With the outbreak of the spread of the virus, especially in the western and southern states, which are red states that traditionally vote for the Republican Party such as Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona, the approval rating of Trump's performance regarding his leadership to combat the spread of the emerging Corona virus has decreased.
Trump's senior adviser, Kyleen Conway, does not agree with the votes he blames, and she said during a television appearance on Friday morning, "Trump's retreat is due to his absence from appearing in daily press statements at the White House, Trump will reappear and will push this to increase his numbers in Polls".