Donald Trump isn’t the first incumbent president to run for reelection facing a deficit in the late summer polls. At this stage of the election cycle in 1948, as he sank in the polls, no one thought Democrat Harry S. Truman had a prayer of winning.
Newsweek magazine likened the Truman campaign in the month before the election to a “ship beating itself to pieces against a rocky shore.”
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