Most notably, he has revived the daily late-afternoon briefings in which he reads positive updates about the pandemic, encourages states and schools to reopen and takes questions from reporters.
That step, Stepien said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg, is beginning to turn the president’s campaign around. The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Biden currently leading Trump by 6.4 percentage points, down from a lead of 9 percentage points a few weeks ago.
“He also happens to be the leader of the free world, and anytime he steps behind a podium as he does every night unlike Joe Biden, it gets covered and it matters and it’s noteworthy and it’s a needle mover,” Stepien said.
“His instincts are strong and there’s no one better at the podium than him. That is a net positive every day of the week, polling shows it,” Stepien said.
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