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US President Donald Trump is expected to face a more tough time in the 2020 election. Most Americans have a less favorable view of Donald Trump than before he walked out of the White House gate last week for a photo op. On Monday evening, the president shocked the world when his attorney general, William Barr ordered federal law enforcement officers and National Guard personnel to forcibly remove protesters from the area in front of St John’s Church near the White House. Trump soon strolled over with Cabinet members and West Wing aides. Trump held up a Bible outside the historic church, where he and other US presidents have worshipped at least once.

Point to be noted that just 27% of those surveyed for a new poll showed the president as a religious person. At least 55% of those polled strongly disagreed with the notion the former New York businessman and reality television host is religious. Several other polls released last week showed Trump losing support among deeply religious white voters. The survey was conducted by Politico-Morning Consult survey and it suggested more trouble with a voting bloc that is central to Trump’s base. It says half of Christians 50% don’t see him as religious and only just over one-third do. 54% of those surveyed called the President racist after the death of George Floyd. That’s a 4-point increase from January.

Trump summoned his campaign team to the White House last week for an emergency meeting over declining poll numbers that sometimes put former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of him by double-digits nationally. On Tuesday, Trump drew some GOP pushback but mostly from a small handful of usual lawmakers like Senators Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski. There is growing concern among some Republican political operatives that Trump’s hard-line instincts, including in response to the protests. The recent polls suggest a shift to Biden because he’s in a better position to talk to folks in the middle and calm them down. People are tired because he has got credibility in dealing with civil strife that this president never will have.