Trump playing catch-up as campaign reaches traditional Labor Day kickoff

Labor Day weekend is often viewed as the kickoff of the fall presidential campaign, and this year, it finds President Trump with ground to make up.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads nationally and in most of the major battleground states. Whatever bounce Trump received from a successful Republican National Convention was modest and potentially short-lived. The coronavirus and the summer’s racial justice protests have taken a bite out of Trump’s approval rating, which has generally ranged in the low-to-mid 40s and peaked at 49% in March.