US President Donald Trump has claimed that Joe Biden presidency would result in low ratings for media outlets covering the White House. He also suggested in a tweet that it would cause the end of our great USA. On Monday, President Trump attacked his presumptive Democratic opponent in the 2020 presidential elections. He retweeted a highly-edited video of Biden posted by a White House communications official Dan Scavino. Trump wrote in a caption and said, “Is this what you want for your President??? With no ratings, media will go down along with our great USA”! The recent attack came as Trump has sharpened his frequent criticism of Biden in recent weeks.
President Trump’s re-election campaign released advertisements questioning the 77-year-old former vice president’s mental fitness. Trump is now 74-years-old. Biden’s campaign fired back at what they called desperate and false attacks from Trump in a memo sent to its surrogates. The campaign said in a statement, “Despite the breathless coverage each new Trump attack gets, this endless rotation of the same debunked smears isn’t the product of strategic genius, it’s a sign of myopia and desperation as each successive attempt backfires, re-elevating a massive Trump liability while leaving his campaign scrambling to find something new”. Recent polling has shown Biden pulling above the Republican incumbent with notable increases in support throughout the coronavirus pandemic in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
It is noteworthy that Biden was leading Trump with at least a 10% advantage in all 3 states. A New York Times/Siena College poll said it helped the US President secure his 2016 victory. The president has often celebrated his ratings while in office, boasting inaccurately about everything from the size of his crowds to the viewership of his rallies on television networks. It is important that the UK government is set to ban Huawei from the 5G network following a rebellion by dozens of Tory MPs and intense pressure from the United States. The UK Media secretary Oliver Dowden is expected to announce the U-turn in the House of Commons following a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning.