Fox News’ Stirewalt: Not Helpful for Trump to Brag About Big Rallies When People Still Really Concerned About Covid

Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt argued that President Donald Trump’s big campaign rallies might be good for Republicans, but it doesn’t help him when so many people are still concerned about the coronavirus.

Dana Perino spoke with her panel Tuesday about the gender divide, given how recent polling has shown men favoring the president and women favoring Joe Biden.

Perino also asked Stirewalt about the differences in campaigning between the two candidates, given how the president is holding massive rallies and Biden has been more “cautious” on the campaign trail.

“Does that have something to do maybe with the gender gap and how he’s approaching this last few days of the campaign in the middle of the pandemic?” she asked.

Stirewalt said that’s a “reasonable assertion” and added that if Trump “could trade places with Joe Biden right now, he would do it 50 times over.”

“He’d be a rally-less basement dweller with parked cars and all that stuff, “he said.

He went on to say Trump’s campaigning doesn’t look good to people who are still very concerned about the virus:

“I don’t know if it’s helpful at a time when people are really concerned about coronavirus to be bragging about packing 10,000 people cheek by jowl into an airport hangar. I don’t know that that helps you. Yeah, I’m sure that it gives Republicans something to think about other than poll numbers and the fact that they’re trailing, but it also tells voters — and yes, women, and yes, seniors… that this is a president who has taken a cavalier approach on this stuff, in their minds, and that he doesn’t say that he’s taking it seriously and he doesn’t say that he’s doing this stuff, but it’s something that just has to be survived.”

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