On the seventh day of convulsive demonstrations sweeping across the United States in response to the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, George W. Bush issued an emotional statement declaring it was “time for America to examine our tragic failures.”

Before March, the Trump campaign hoped that a strong economy would bolster the President’s reelection prospects.

President Trump is in the midst of a polling swoon largely of his own making.