NEW YORK – Presidential politics is fast becoming. What we are in as we move forward in a new week of the 2020 campaign:
Days before the election: 64
Days of the first debate: 29
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THE NARRATOR
With conventions still over, the 2020 election season is now entering its final phase.
Both sides are satisfied with their functionality in Congress, which has radically presented other versions of the truth to the American electorate. President Donald Trump is necessarily asking the electorate to make a judgment on it on the basis of a pre-pandemic America. Joe Biden is asking the electorate to make a judgement on situations as they exist, with the number of pandemic deaths on the rise, the economy in distress, and racial tensions exploding again.
Still, either side expects the elections, which Biden has led during the cycle peak, to harden before the nine-week run through November 3, still organized with smaller, socially remote crowds.
Both applicants are focusing on Wisconsin this week, as a series of violent protests follows police shooting at a black man being filmed. Each aspect believes that the incident gives political merit and that there may no longer be a larger transitional state.
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THE BIG QUESTIONS
Can Trump forget about reality?
If you judge the state of the United States on the basis of last week’s Republican National Convention, you would know that more than 180,000 Americans have died as a result of the pandemic in the past six months and that tens of millions more are out of work. .
With a few flagrant exceptions, the president painted a decidedly positive picture of American life under his leadership. The only genuine risk to America’s prosperity and even security, its allies said, is a Biden victory this fall.
This message essentially ignores six months of death and economic destruction under Trump’s supervision. For any other politician, it would be an incredibly complicated sale. And for Trump too. But Trump has not yet demonstrated anything of his dominance of the public highlights and the undisputed religion of his loyal ones in his word.
Is democratic panic about to begin?
Several members of Biden’s team tell us they expect the polls to harden in the coming days.
They insist that Biden’s leadership is still expected to diminish, given the polarized nature of the electorate. But it is unlikely to calm concerned Democrats who desperately need a crushing victory to undo Trump’s efforts to undermine the integrity of the election. The point of urgency for Democrats has been high, but it is expected to increase exponentially if Biden’s advantage begins to evaporate.
A tighter race will also prove the unity of the Democratic coalition, a set of disparate factions that have been remarkably similar to others, united by a non-unusual cause to defeat Trump. If things start to go south, the signs will almost actually keep him going.
Who wins Kenosha?
White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway told Fox News Week that “the more chaos, anarchy, vandalism and violence, the better” for Trump.
While Biden took advantage of his obvious birthday party of violence, Trump’s crusade believes he is winning the racially charged debate over police brutality as autumn approaches. Democrats believed that the civil unrest that devastated the country for much of the summer would help energize other people of color who oppose Trump this fall.
The political calculus is much more murky. This week may bring some clarity, as any of the applicants deserves to pay specific attention to the scenario in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which has the new epicenter of the debate.
Trump plans to travel to the region on Tuesday, and we wouldn’t be surprised if Biden turned it into a precedent and resumed his cross in person.
Joe Biden back on the court?
After spending nearly six months keeping his head down in Delaware, Biden plans to return to the Crusade Road in the coming days.
While Democrats seemed quite pleased to have their candidate out of public attention, Republicans are stunned. They are delighted that Biden has named Minnesota as one of the states he will visit, proving that the former vice president is protecting in at least one Democratic state four years ago.
It is unclear what the crusade will look like in the user of Biden, who has struggled to attract giant crowds, even in general cases, the primaries. Several states continue to ban giant national meetings. And Biden’s senior adviser, Anita Dunn, tells us not to expect the same kind of giant, unmasked crowds that were presented in the Trump conference speech last week.
Wherever you go and whatever your events, the exhibition offers a significant threat and praise for the 77-year-old politician.
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THE FINAL THOUGHT
Thousands of people crowded onto the National Mall late last week to celebrate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech.
We spoke to Martin Luther King III on the eve of the event, and he told us that he “saddened” that Republicans at his conference last week had discussed his father’s call to help Trump run for re-election.
King Trump’s rhetoric about racial divisions to Richard Nixon’s part a century ago: “It’s just absolute racism,” King said. “The hands of the clock are receding.”
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