He didn’t talk about this at rallies; he didn’t publish tweets about it; he didn’t air ads about it; he didn’t campaign on it. It’s just what he’s apparently planning on doing now that he’s in office — while he talks frequently, and at length, with his friend Putin.
When that NBC News poll came out this week, pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey along with GOP pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies, talked about those Putin and Russia numbers, noting how far apart the American people are from their president on this one, honestly bizarre issue.
“I cannot recall a moment in history when American public opinion and voters’ views of a president, as to which country they are more aligned with, have been more in conflict with each other,” he said.
The American people are against Putin. The American president is very much for him. This, amid everything else, is a test for us — because that should be unsustainable in a democracy.