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With the coronavirus death toll surpassing 80,000 and the unemployment rate at Great Depression-era levels, there is a growing consensus among senior Republicans that Donald Trump's reelection is slipping away. Recent internal polls show Trump trailing Joe Biden in six swing states, a data point that augurs a landslide loss in November. "The swing state polls are horrific," a prominent Republican briefed on the numbers told me. The White House's COVID-19 outbreak is only the latest headline that reinforces the narrative that Trump can't get control of the pandemic. "This is what should worry the campaign: Biden is in his basement and he's beating Trump," a former West Wing staffer told me. "If I were Biden, the lesson I would learn is: Shut the [***] up and let Trump go out there and destroy himself." [...]

On top of everything, there is also fear in Trumpworld that Senate Republicans might finally break from him if the polls get bad enough. "The numbers are [****]ing terrible," another former West Wing official said. "There's massive anxiety in the GOP that he's gonna take them all down with him."

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