TRUMP IS REALIZING THAT HE IS LOSING TO BIDEN

 

            ….This was Trump at his freezing Omaha night rally that left many attendees needing hospitalization

 

Trump doesn’t convince his “superspreader” rally goers that he is not going to lose the election

 

As many of us has suspected, when someone like our Mob-Boss president realizes that he my lose the election, he reacts accordingly.  Today he is trailing in the polls and he has little time or money left to change the direction of the presidential race.  Only our president could spend these final days of the campaign complaining that the coronavirus crisis is getting too much media coverage.  He is at least, openly musing about losing the election

Trump has publicly lamented about what an election loss would mean to him.  He has made unsubstantiated claims that it will be “voter fraud” would cost him the election.  He has sarcastically threatened to fire state officials if he doesn’t win and he went after his rival Joe Biden as someone it would be particularly embarrassing to lose to.

“If I lose, I will have lost to the worst candidate, the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics,” Trump said this at an campaign rally in Wisconsin. “If I lose, what do I do? I’d rather run against somebody who’s extraordinarily talented, at least, that way I could go and lead my life.”

Trump has told his “superspreader” rallygoers that he had the presidential race won until the pandemic hit, and he has accused all legitimate media outlets of focusing on the health crisis to hurt him politically.

“Covid, Covid, Covid is the unified chant of the Fake News Lamestream Media,” he tweeted this week. “They will talk about nothing else until November 4th., when the Election will be over. Then the talk will be how low the death rate is, plenty of hospital rooms, & many tests of young people.”

This last part is just part of his delusional level of thinking.  He just keeps having his “superspreader rallies” as his poll ratings continue to drop on a daily basis.

Trump has even previously falsely complained that “Biden could win the race while receiving the benefit of glowing media coverage for overseeing the implementation of Trump administration policies on the coronavirus and other issues…...?”

The president’s comments reflect his long-running failure to shift the nation’s focus from the rapidly worsening pandemic in recent months.  As he has tried to build his campaign on other themes such as cracking down on racial-justice protests, making unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Biden and attacking the former vice president over his energy policy.   But unfortunately, the coronavirus has continued to dominate American lives and news headlines, as it should.  When 100 Americans die every day from a novel virus, that should properly dominate the nation’s headlines.

His critics say that Trump’s own inconsistent handling of the pandemic is the main reasons it has remained a key issue in the campaign for several months.  With the Election Day approaching, the virus is surging across the country, with record cases in recent days and growing hospitalizations and deaths. As of now, more than 227,000 Americans have died.

Trump’s own hospitalization earlier this month, when he was infected, it not only took him off the campaign trail, the polls showed that he was not taking the deadly virus seriously enough.

Despite spending four days at Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump quickly returned to the campaign trail and continued holding his “superspreader” gatherings.   Even his own health officials have described them as “superspreader” events. He has continued to attack Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists and journalists for focusing on the deadly virus.

Trump has falsely called media reporting on the pandemic an effort “to change our great early election numbers” and stupidly said “ it should be an election-law violation.”

The rallies have themselves become a symbol of his “reckless approach to governing”, said Guy Cecil, who leads Priorities USA, a group that has blanketed the airwaves with advertisements against Trump on the pandemic.  “He’s making people less favorable and less open to voting for him,” Cecil said. “He is actually hurting himself by traveling around the country holding these rallies.”

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh has even attacked public polls showing Trump behind Biden, and he has still predicted a Trump victory.  “The mainstream media has spent the last four years trying to destroy and defeat President Trump, so no one should put any stock in polls paid for by these same news organizations,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “We know where he stands in the states that will decide this election and we are confident in his reelection.”

Biden, who has had smaller events and has sought to contrast his approach to the pandemic with Trump’s non-action.

During a speech Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., Biden referenced a Trump rally in Omaha at which thousands of supporters were left stranded waiting for buses that had been sent away during the near freezing weather. He called it “an image of those stranded supporters that captures President Trump’s whole approach to this crisis.  He gets his photo op, and then he gets out,” Biden said. “He leaves everyone else to suffer the consequences of his failure to make a responsible plan. It seems like he just doesn’t care much about it. And the longer he’s in charge, the more reckless he gets.”

(Over 30 people that were left at the Omaha superspreading event required hospitalization after finally being rescued from the freezing weather.)

“You know, until the plague came in from China, I didn’t even have a race,” he said at a rally in Wisconsin, describing the election as a “choice between a Trump boom and a Biden lockdown.”

But parts of Wisconsin are already facing the prospect of shutting down as the virus circulates at record levels. On the day of Trump’s visit, Wisconsin recorded 71, Covid-19 deaths, the most of any day since the beginning of the pandemic. The following day, the University of Wisconsin announced it was canceling football-related activities because of an outbreak among students.

Trump’s approach will end up hurting him politically in such key states, said David Wasserman, the editor for the Cook Political Report.

“The president’s decision to downplay the severity of COVID at multiple October rallies in Wisconsin might be the biggest display of tone-deafness I’ve ever seen, and I cover hundreds of campaigns,” Wasserman wrote on Twitter.

As he has repeatedly brought up losing in recent days, he has said that only external forces could cause such an outcome. With record numbers of Americans voting early and by mail, he has seized on absentee ballots as one explanation for a potential loss.  “Who’s sending them? Who’s receiving them? Who’s bringing them back? Who’s signing them? It’s ridiculous,” Trump said at a rally in Allentown, Pa. “It’s the only way we can lose, in my opinion, is massive fraud. And that’s what’s happening because all over the country you’re seeing it. Thousands and thousands of ballots.”

This is showing just how much he is realizing that he is losing the race.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and several Republicans have openly said Trump could lose fairly, with some almost predicting that he will lose.

During a recent committee hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Democrats “have a good chance of winning the White House.” This was leaked in comments from a phone call with constituents, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) warned of a “Republican bloodbath” in November and specifically attacked Trump on a number of issues.  Speaking to CNBC, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the GOP could be in for “a bloodbath of Watergate proportions” in which they lose the White House and the Senate.

Still, Trump has told reporters that a “red wave” is soon coming that would sweep him into another unexpected victory.  This would be a serious miracle at best.

During his rally in Allentown, PA, Trump looked over at a truck and mused about hopping in and leaving his presidential life behind  “I’d love to do it. Just drive the hell out of here,” he said. “Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great.”

Trump has said his references to losing and leaving the White House are made sarcastically.  But they also reveal his insecurities about going down in history as a one-term president, said Amanda Carpenter, a Trump critic who wrote a book titled “Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies To Us.”    “He always tells you what he’s thinking, right?” she said. “To him, it is embarrassing if you lose this to Biden in particular because Biden stands for things like empathy, experience and patience, which in Trump’s world are considered defects.”

Trump, who has openly mocked Biden’s mental acuity and political skills, has said losing to him would be especially devastating.

“Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I going to do?” the president told supporters in Macon, Ga. “I’m going to say I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country. I don’t know.”

There are many of us that are hoping that Trump will both lose and will be sent to jail for what his presidency has done to this great country.

Copyright G. Ater 2020