The Bob Woodward book virus revelations combined with the negative military comments by Donald Trump coming off his convention has keep Trump in hole behind Joe Biden….
And Trump IS running out of time with his poll numbers still stuck where they have been for months….
The reports are that there a few undecideds out there and the early voting ballot requests are at record levels…
NOT a good look for Donald who tends dig himself deeper in trouble when he does things….
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump nationally by ten points, 49% to 39%.
The previous poll had Biden ahead by just 6 points.
“The results suggest that a week of unrelenting and unflattering revelations about Trump — from the Atlantic report on his alleged contempt for Americans wounded or killed in war (which appeared on Sept. 3) to Bob Woodward’s recordings of Trump admitting he downplayed the deadliness of COVID-19 — has damaged the president’s standing with voters.”
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From new New York Times/Siena polls:
- Minnesota: Biden 50%, Trump 41%
- Nevada: Biden 46%, Trump 42%
- New Hampshire: Biden 45%, Trump 42%
- Wisconsin: Biden 48%, Trump 43%
“Overtaking Mr. Biden in some of those four states could be a significant boost to Mr. Trump’s re-election chances. He narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016 and barely lost the other three to Hillary Clinton.”
“While Mr. Trump has steadied his candidacy since his political nadir early in the summer, the Times poll suggests that, less than two months before Election Day, he has yet to achieve the kind of major political breakthrough he needs.”
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“The 2020 presidential election features a pared-back pool of undecided voters after four years of a highly controversial and media-saturated presidency.,” Axiosreports.
“Entrenched views mean there’s less reason for campaigns to try to change voters’ minds than to convince those already with them to vote — and help educate them about mail-in and early-vote procedures to make sure their votes count.”
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Even Trump’s campaign admits they can’t win if the election is about Trump.
The Woodward book has ate up several news cycles already and with so many hours of taped interviews it could easily take up a few more. All time that Trump doesn’t have to shift focus.
Again–why did he agree to this?
I asked that question a few days ago.
The best answer I can come up with is that he really believes he is smarter than everybody else and can bs his way through anything and anybody.
Even the well known hatchet man, Bob Woodward.
And then to have it all on tape?
All it proves really is how damn dumb he is!
Trump always thinks the best solution to any problem is more Trump.
Apparently after the last Woodward book He decided that the reason his administration cane off poorly is that he didn’t do enough talking to Woodward first person.
Someone should have told him that wasn’t the case but he has been surrounded by sycophants who are afraid to disagree with him and now that group includes virtually the entire Republican Party.
Actually i’d bet some DO ‘suggest’ he stop freelancing and stick to their script…
Apparently it don’t work to long…
He’s running against HIMSELF…
Ain’t Woodward’s fault….
The ‘Comey’ thing for Trump it seems to becoming….
Or…
Nixon and the tapes….
Or…
The Pentagon Papers….
Republican hoodlum Roger Stone suggested that Trump ought to declare martial Law if he doesn’t like the election results.
In related news regarding deranged Republicans Kanye West will not be appearing on the Wisconsin ballot.
I very much doubt that the President has that power, absent a foreign invasion or a domestic insurrection that shuts down the operation of the civil courts, but Jack can answer this far more learnèdly than I.
See, for example,
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/section-2/clause-1/martial-law-and-constitutional-limitations
Trump would have to get the military and federal law enforcement to obey his take over….
Again?
The Chair of the Joint Chiefs has Said OUT LOUD the military is NOT in this….