Can Coronavirus hurt Trump in the upcoming US elections?.

[Cnut237]

Coronavirus absolutely will not harm Trump in the elections; on the contrary, it will increase his chances of success.

Trump has positioned himself as an outsider standing up for common people against a corrupt establishment. It is at times of crisis such as that provoked by coronavirus that he can really run with that. Trump governs largely by pithy soundbite. In calmer, more measured times, his remarks can be picked apart to determine their veracity. But  in a crisis such as now, there is a surfeit of news, people are only interested in headlines and in leaders who "get things done". Trump complains about the bureaucracy he inherited all the time. He can very easily set a poor response to coronavirus against this backdrop, and shift any blame.
In fact he's already doing it...

[sujon5]

Trump’s health care blind spot turned to be on of the biggest problems for the country. The pandemic demonstrates why health care plan must exist. So Trump could very plausibly lose in November.

[Artemis3]

Does the Stock market fall in this sitaution, potentially wiping out all of the gains that Trump has taken credit for in the last 3 years? If so, then MAYBE.

S&P 500 is still up but only ~10% since Trump's inauguration and we're officially in a bear market... it's very likely we'll test your "maybe". Although it started going rapidly up in the last few minutes for reasons yet unknown.

Meanwhile, if we take the title of the thread literally: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-brazilian-official-who-met-trump-tests-positive.html

My next portion of that expained that if the administration is able to show that they're doing everything they can do to combat this -- then Americans may not be so quick to blame the administration for inaction and may understand that.

But I don't think thats what happening now. The Media has said that Trumps response to the coronavirus isn't good enough and that they're not doing enough to combat this. This is going to make people VERY VERY angry.

So yes, we're putting my MAYBE to the test. We'll only know in November of 2020

When did that Brazilian met with Trump? On average you would need to wait 11 days afterwards.

Remember 9 - 11?  The US quickly stopped ALL air traffic, the exact same thing should have been done, but they haven't. This is one reason they failed to contain it properly. Trump is only "considering" now to halt "some" traffic, but that is not how this works. To be really sure, you have to stop ALL (yeah, North Korea style), then wait two weeks, isolate & treat any cases and wait two more weeks.

Done properly you could then lift it. But, NONE of the countries did this properly, China kinda did but a month too late and it of course escaped the country. What people have a hard time grasping, is those 11 days on average you get infected but show no symptoms. By the time you recognize the symptoms, you have already spread the virus to many others the previous two weeks.

And with the infections also come the deaths, then come the lamenting why they didn't act. Hey, you had this coming since January and even now, you are still letting air traffic. would have been easier if a terrorist hijacked and crashed another plane, it would probably saved more lives too...

See? Politicians. He had the power to stop all air traffic, but didn't. Its too late now.

[squatz1]

Ah look at that Trump was tested and doesn't have the corona virus,so we're all good on that front. The market is taking a tumble though -- and that is going to be something that Trump is going to have to explain.

Though I do think that the administration took a SHARP turn on how they're handling this. At first Trump was attacking the media, and attacking the Dems, pretty much doing everything that he'd do to deal with a crisis before this. Though thew public doesn't like that when it comes to this, and Trump was able to notice that quickly enough, he's taken a sharp turn and has (in the last few days) showed the public that he's willing to take drastic action to ensure that the people are safe. And even if you don't like it, we all can admit that that is what the majority of Americans want to hear in a period of uncertainy.

So yeah, here we are.