Friends, I have never written what I’m about to write. I have not written it, thought it, said it, or tweeted it. But here we are. If the election were held today, Donald J. Trump would be re-elected President of the United States. This can change. It can be sabotaged with one tweet by the President. Republicans need to understand this has everything to do with strategic mistakes by the Democrats, not really anything the President himself has done to salvage the situation. However, the President should be thanking the RNC for a very competent and effective convention and thanking the Democrats for a zoom call.
If the election were held today, I have no idea who wins. However, elections tend to track with how the economy performs, and we're in a bona fide recession, in part because of how Trump has failed at taking CV19 seriously.
1) Biden's policies are fixed in stone because that is what the progressive majority of Democrats wants. Trump made that clear in his speech last night. The only way for the Democrats to recover from that is to convince the public that they don't mean what they have repeatedly said about policies. But anybody who pays any attention to issues knows that the Democrats will do everything possible to defund the Police, abolish ICE, offer free health insurance to illegal aliens, and implement The Green New Deal and all the other policies pushed by the progressive left.
2) Trump's tweets only matter within the progressive and Never Trump bubbles. What the Republican convention did was present the alternative of his policies to anybody outside of those bubbles. It also probably touched people who have been in the Democratic bubble for a long time and are now starting to ask themselves why.
In my neighborhood of rural western PA I have seen many Trump signs and flags and only one Biden sign, that said "He won't inject you with bleach." Maybe idiotic Trump hatred like that is enough to fool enough voters for Biden to win as the ultimate Trojan horse candidate. But such tactics didn't work in 2016 and I wouldn't bet on them working in 2020.
Biden's challenge is to wrestle messaging across his coalition. He's not been successful as yet. With that said, I wouldn't be surprised to read 6 months that Trump's surrogates were behind this looting all along.
"Joe, it is your supporters burning down businesses and you think to make it stop that voters have to give in and toss Trump?"... but even then what guarantee is there now that if Biden is elected they will stop? And by the same token it would set a terrible precedent... want something? Burn a city down.
I've Never Written This Before
If the election were held today, I have no idea who wins. However, elections tend to track with how the economy performs, and we're in a bona fide recession, in part because of how Trump has failed at taking CV19 seriously.
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1) Biden's policies are fixed in stone because that is what the progressive majority of Democrats wants. Trump made that clear in his speech last night. The only way for the Democrats to recover from that is to convince the public that they don't mean what they have repeatedly said about policies. But anybody who pays any attention to issues knows that the Democrats will do everything possible to defund the Police, abolish ICE, offer free health insurance to illegal aliens, and implement The Green New Deal and all the other policies pushed by the progressive left.
2) Trump's tweets only matter within the progressive and Never Trump bubbles. What the Republican convention did was present the alternative of his policies to anybody outside of those bubbles. It also probably touched people who have been in the Democratic bubble for a long time and are now starting to ask themselves why.
In my neighborhood of rural western PA I have seen many Trump signs and flags and only one Biden sign, that said "He won't inject you with bleach." Maybe idiotic Trump hatred like that is enough to fool enough voters for Biden to win as the ultimate Trojan horse candidate. But such tactics didn't work in 2016 and I wouldn't bet on them working in 2020.
Biden's challenge is to wrestle messaging across his coalition. He's not been successful as yet. With that said, I wouldn't be surprised to read 6 months that Trump's surrogates were behind this looting all along.
"Joe, it is your supporters burning down businesses and you think to make it stop that voters have to give in and toss Trump?"... but even then what guarantee is there now that if Biden is elected they will stop? And by the same token it would set a terrible precedent... want something? Burn a city down.