Playbook, Election Day edition: “We’re here.”
DONALD JOHN TRUMP is going into today facing a significant chance of becoming the first one-term president in nearly three decades.
DONALD JOHN TRUMP is going into today facing a significant chance of becoming the first one-term president in nearly three decades.
JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN is pushing into states that supported TRUMP in his quest to become the oldest first-term president, and the 15th former VP to ascend to the Oval Office.
THE THROUGHLINE of this campaign and last several months of our country’s history is the TRUMP administration’s handling of the coronavirus and the economic fallout from the pandemic. Nothing more, nothing less. A quarter-million Americans are dead. Millions have gotten the virus
Businesses have been shut down for months. Americans’ routines have been flipped upside down. And the White House has said it would do nothing different if given the imagined opportunity.
The administration tried to defy science -- and the rest of the developed world -- by suggesting that large gatherings are fine, masks are of questionable efficacy and the virus will disappear on its own in due course. Of course, that won’t happen.
TRUMP had a miraculous recovery from Covid-19. Will his political bounceback be as stunning?
BIRX: “WE ARE ENTERING the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic … leading to increasing mortality This is not about lockdowns -- It hasn’t been about lockdowns since March or April. It’s about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented.’”
EVEN ON ELECTION DAY, you have government experts saying the TRUMP administration screwed up. TRUMP clearly doesn’t like ANTHONY FAUCI, because in his view the doctor spoke out of turn -- “uncalled for” is what we heard earlier this week from White House people.
Now BIRX has taken an even harder line.
THERE ARE NO VACCINES at the ready. No widely available therapeutic. No new Covid relief package. No preparation to combat the expected winter spread of this virus.
THERE ARE NO VACCINES at the ready. No widely available therapeutic. No new Covid relief package. No preparation to combat the expected winter spread of this virus.
THIS PRESIDENT SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN BEEN OVERWHELMED BY EVENTS. Nothing has broken through in the campaign besides his handling of the coronavirus. Not the trade deal he cut, not the regulations he has rolled back and not the tax legislation he squeezed through Congress
THE ULTIMATE QUESTION is: Do voters believe that the situation truly is cosmic and out of his control, or is it at least partially of his making?
We were rapping w @BresPolitico, and he made a good point: 1-term presidents typically get overwhelmed by events. GWHB had a sagging economy. CARTER had hostage crisis in Iran, a lackluster economy and the sense that the U.S. was out of control and on a bad track. LBJ had Vietnam
WILL TRUMP join that group?
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