there is a growing sense that there is no one in charge that normally in a crisis there is someone who steps forward, usually the President who steps forward and you have a sense of somebody's got their hands on the wheel, knows where we're going, can help guide the ship.
Gergen discusses the lack of leadership during the current economic crisis.
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We need leadership now, at the Presidential level, that it matches the leadership we're seeing at the gubernatorial level.
If it is true, it's a dishonorable act and voters have to this November decide whether they want to discharge him or not.
the way that Donald Trump is responding to the pandemic is, I think is, they are giving him a lot of rope on the Democratic side and he is increasingly hanging himself.
Fifty million Americans or more out there believe that he is coming to office by fraud. It seems to me the Democratic Party has a strong interest in pushing back on that theory.
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