Even more than China, Washington’s “elite” believe that the Trump administration should have “done more” to stop the spread of the coronavirus, according to a new poll of the so-called “swamp.”
Some 84% of 156 Washington influencers dubbed “D.C.’s Elite” in the latest YouGov poll said Team Trump should have done more. Some 81% said China should have done more, and 82% said the federal government should have done more.
Those elites are also down on the president’s effort to reopen the economy and do not believe he will be able to get employment back to pre-virus numbers before Election Day.
Washington’s “elite” have never been fans of the president, who promised in his 2016 campaign to “drain the swamp” if elected. This week, Vice President Mike Pence in a Wisconsin campaign stop said, “It’s going to take at least four more years to drain that swamp.”
The poll suggested that little has changed.
For example, 60% of elites believe there will be a second wave, and it will be worse than the first, countering the administration’s claims.
In a slap at Trump, the poll found that “61% of D.C. elites believe the federal government’s response to the virus has been too focused on the U.S. economy.”
And despite the stimulus packages pushed by the White House, “two-thirds (67%) say too little has been done by the federal government to support small businesses, and a similar number (63%) feel too little has been done to help individual citizens. By contrast, two in five (42%) say too much has been done to help large corporations. 61% think the support given to financial markets was about right,” read the polling analysis.
As for who the “elites” are, YouGov explained:
