Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Two related posts about the Presidential election

 

I hope they're right and I hope they stay right.


What do the polls tell us?  by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)

"Most calamitous for Trump, voters by a wide margin (55 to 45 percent) see the election as a referendum on his four years rather than what Trump (21 percent) or Biden (24 percent) propose going forward. On metrics such as cares about people (63 to 44 percent), temperament (59 to 37 percent) and intelligence (56 to 47 percent), Biden clobbers Trump. Far more voters (50 percent) blame Trump than credit him (33 percent) for the covid-19 response."

“WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO?”: TRUMP DESPERATE, DESPONDENT AS NUMBERS CRATER, “LOSER” LABEL LOOMS by Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)

This quote is featured in the Jennifer Rubin column above.  The Sherman column was written in early July.

"A Republican strategist close to Mitch McConnell told me that Republicans have Labor Day penciled in as the deadline for Trump to have turned things around. After that, he’s on his own."

So -- will that happen?  Watch the events of the next days closely. 

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