Trump Vs Biden: The Race Tightens, "Suddenly Looks Like 2016"
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Well, let's take a look...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...den-6247.html#!
In the average of polls, Trump's still way down from where he was a month ago. Which wasn't good then. In the last two weeks, Trump has lost his lead in Georgia and Iowa, while not gaining the lead in any swing state. Biden now leads in both states.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...iden-6974.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...iden-6787.html
More worrisome for Trump, the last poll by Rasmussen taken 10/18 and 10/19, has Biden pulling ahead in Ohio, which should be a reliably red state. Rasmussen normally polls higher for republicans than most other polls, so that's particularly a bad sign for Trump.
Zerohedge predicted the republicans would hold on to the House in 2018, too...
How did that turn out?
Normally, you'd expect the race to tighten a bit this late, but so far, it hasn't.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...den-6247.html#!
In the average of polls, Trump's still way down from where he was a month ago. Which wasn't good then. In the last two weeks, Trump has lost his lead in Georgia and Iowa, while not gaining the lead in any swing state. Biden now leads in both states.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...iden-6974.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ep...iden-6787.html
More worrisome for Trump, the last poll by Rasmussen taken 10/18 and 10/19, has Biden pulling ahead in Ohio, which should be a reliably red state. Rasmussen normally polls higher for republicans than most other polls, so that's particularly a bad sign for Trump.
Zerohedge predicted the republicans would hold on to the House in 2018, too...
How did that turn out?
Normally, you'd expect the race to tighten a bit this late, but so far, it hasn't.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
This election is nothing like 2016.
WonderfulLordJesus
New member
Biden's confident he can win, and that four more years of Nixon would be a disaster. Then he started to say something else.
"Suddenly, the race looks like 2018."
Yep.
Except this time the republicans are running for cover early. And more bad news for them keeps coming in:
HARRISBURG — An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block Delaware County from operating a three-day, pop-up early voting center in a predominantly Black area.
Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson, in a decision Friday night, wrote that a county judge had reasonable grounds to reject the emergency petition.
With barely two weeks left before Election Day, Pennsylvania is shaping up as a key battleground state in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
The voting center began operating Friday in Subaru Park in Chester. The county was scheduled to continue operating it Saturday and Sunday, allowing people to register to vote, apply for a mail-in ballot, fill it out and turn it in.
https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylv...0201017-ayhkeifbnncdvdff4x6jpx5nh4-story.html
And voters have gotten more street-wise about republicans trying to suppress votes:
This week, he got contacted by a campaign seeking votes, which urged him to check his registration again. Johnson says he checked the Secretary of State’s website again this week – and he says his registration was gone.
"They had me as being dead," he said, despite evidence to the contrary. "(I'm) alive and well."
Johnson had gone to the Georgia Secretary of State's website, and clicked on “Elections.” Then he selected the link marked "Where Do I Vote? (MVP)" which takes a voter to the office's My Voter Page.
https://www.11alive.com/article/new...rrors/85-43a90b86-894a-4853-a255-2c4211b9dcca
Republican officials were "cleansing" voter rolls, but this guy outwitted them.
Meantime, the rats are leaving the ship:
WASHINGTON – With just over two weeks left until Election Day, President Donald Trump rallied supporters at a Nevada campaign stop by warning of what he called a "socialist" Democratic agenda, but he also had a message for Republicans: Stick together.
At a Carson City, Nevada, airport rally, Trump mocked Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., one of several Republicans who have criticized the president publicly in recent days.
Trump was responding to a barrage of criticisms unleashed by Sasse last week during a conference call with constituents.
Under Trump's leadership, Sasse said, the "United States now regularly sells out our allies."
"The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. ... His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with white supremacists," he added.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...tacks-biden-nevada-campaign-stops/3702205001/
"It's a Republican Party unraveling," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. "They're seeking to rid themselves of Trump at this juncture but realize they can't quite yet. But they know his name is no longer kinetic on the campaign trail."
Republican consultant and Trump detractor, Rick Tyler, also weighed in with his observation of the Republican Party describing their current problems as "cracks and fissures all over the ice."
"There are cracks and fissures all over the ice," Tyler said. "The president spent months ignoring the virus and talking about the economy coming back. But when the president catches the virus and the economy doesn't come back, what do you do? You try to survive."
The latest remarks come just days after Trump caused the stock market to crash after he abruptly ended stimulus negotiations.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/vu...onse-and-impulsive-stimulus-negotiation-halt/
Yep.
Except this time the republicans are running for cover early. And more bad news for them keeps coming in:
HARRISBURG — An appellate court judge in Pennsylvania turned down an emergency petition from Republicans seeking to block Delaware County from operating a three-day, pop-up early voting center in a predominantly Black area.
Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson, in a decision Friday night, wrote that a county judge had reasonable grounds to reject the emergency petition.
With barely two weeks left before Election Day, Pennsylvania is shaping up as a key battleground state in the contest between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
The voting center began operating Friday in Subaru Park in Chester. The county was scheduled to continue operating it Saturday and Sunday, allowing people to register to vote, apply for a mail-in ballot, fill it out and turn it in.
https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylv...0201017-ayhkeifbnncdvdff4x6jpx5nh4-story.html
And voters have gotten more street-wise about republicans trying to suppress votes:
This week, he got contacted by a campaign seeking votes, which urged him to check his registration again. Johnson says he checked the Secretary of State’s website again this week – and he says his registration was gone.
"They had me as being dead," he said, despite evidence to the contrary. "(I'm) alive and well."
Johnson had gone to the Georgia Secretary of State's website, and clicked on “Elections.” Then he selected the link marked "Where Do I Vote? (MVP)" which takes a voter to the office's My Voter Page.
https://www.11alive.com/article/new...rrors/85-43a90b86-894a-4853-a255-2c4211b9dcca
Republican officials were "cleansing" voter rolls, but this guy outwitted them.
Meantime, the rats are leaving the ship:
WASHINGTON – With just over two weeks left until Election Day, President Donald Trump rallied supporters at a Nevada campaign stop by warning of what he called a "socialist" Democratic agenda, but he also had a message for Republicans: Stick together.
At a Carson City, Nevada, airport rally, Trump mocked Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., one of several Republicans who have criticized the president publicly in recent days.
Trump was responding to a barrage of criticisms unleashed by Sasse last week during a conference call with constituents.
Under Trump's leadership, Sasse said, the "United States now regularly sells out our allies."
"The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. ... His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with white supremacists," he added.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...tacks-biden-nevada-campaign-stops/3702205001/
"It's a Republican Party unraveling," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. "They're seeking to rid themselves of Trump at this juncture but realize they can't quite yet. But they know his name is no longer kinetic on the campaign trail."
Republican consultant and Trump detractor, Rick Tyler, also weighed in with his observation of the Republican Party describing their current problems as "cracks and fissures all over the ice."
"There are cracks and fissures all over the ice," Tyler said. "The president spent months ignoring the virus and talking about the economy coming back. But when the president catches the virus and the economy doesn't come back, what do you do? You try to survive."
The latest remarks come just days after Trump caused the stock market to crash after he abruptly ended stimulus negotiations.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/vu...onse-and-impulsive-stimulus-negotiation-halt/
Arthur Brain
Well-known member
Hmm, this sounds...like the professional and diplomatic commentary that a distinguished holder of presidential office would enunciate during a pandemic, especially after having being a supposed victim of such himself after over two hundred thousand deaths:
Oh: Warning. Some vulgar language employed, but hey, given the source, it's all okay anyway.
MAGA!
Oh: Warning. Some vulgar language employed, but hey, given the source, it's all okay anyway.
MAGA!
Arthur Brain
Well-known member
Hmm, your dipstick of a president acts like a petulant kid who knows he can no longer hide the fact that he stole from the cookie jar.
Because he's got nothing to replace them with.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Arthur Brain
Well-known member
He's such a toddler.
Fake news!!