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Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
« on: October 06, 2020, 08:46:23 AM »
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    • Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    October 6, 2020 by Patrick J. Buchanan
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    Trump has four weeks to turn it around. And his task, while easy to describe, is not so easy to accomplish. He needs to persuade undecided and soft Biden voters that Joe is simply not up to the job of president.
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    What a difference a week can make.
    Saturday, Sept. 26, was among the best days of the Trump presidency, or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.
    The academic and professional credentials of Amy Coney Barrett, 48, a U.S. appeals court judge, were superb. Moreover, she was a devout Catholic and mother of seven, two of whom were adoptees from Haiti.
    From every standpoint, a 10-strike for Donald Trump.
    Ahead was the Tuesday debate, the first of three with Joe Biden, and the long-awaited opportunity to expose Sleepy Joe’s visible loss of mental and verbal acuity in the four years since he was vice president.
    Sunday, however, The New York Times detonated a bomb directly beneath the Trump campaign. Declaring that it had Trump’s tax returns, the Times story blared:
    “Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.”
    Far from being a billionaire, the Times said, Trump was mired in debt with hundreds off millions of dollars in loans coming due in 2021.
    Suddenly, Trump was on the defensive. And in the Cleveland debate, he began a series of accusations and insults that lasted 90 minutes. The debate was widely declared the worst in U.S. presidential history.[/font][/size]

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    Moderator Chris Wallace and the media agreed that the descent into chaos was caused by the endless interruptions of Trump.
    Believing he accomplished what he had come to do, Trump headed out for the friendly country of Minnesota’s Iron Range. On the return trip on Air Force One, Hope Hicks, feeling unwell, was quarantined.
    She later tested positive for COVID-19.
    At 1 a.m. Friday, came word came that both the president and first lady had tested positive. By evening, Marine One was transporting Trump from the White House to Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda.
    Saturday came the doctors’ report that the president was doing well, followed by chief of staff Mark Meadows’ backgrounder suggesting that Trump’s situation had been more serious than the country knew.
    Came then news that some of Trump’s guests at the Rose Garden ceremony had tested positive: campaign manager Bill Stepien, Governor Chris Christie of his debate prep team, Kellyanne Conway, and Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, both of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will vote on Judge Barrett.
    Sunday, with a crowd in front of Walter Reed loudly cheering for him, Trump commandeered an SUV and ordered it to drive by his followers so he could wave to them. In the front seat of the SUV, in masks and protective gear, were Trump’s Secret Service agents.[/font][/size]

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    The cuмulative impact of these 10 days has been distracting at best and dreadful at worst. And the pressure from Trump, to get back to the White House and the campaign, suggests this is his take as well.
    The coronavirus and how he has handled it, the contraction of COVID-19 and how Trump got infected, his prior mockery of masks and ridicule of many who wear them, the specter of thousands of maskless Trumpsters at MAGA rallies — all are now the stuff of front-page news and back-page commentary.
    The nation tends to respond sympathetically when the president faces a life-threatening situation. It did so to Ike’s heart attack in 1955, and to Reagan after he was shot at the Washington Hilton by John Hinckley and then had colon cancer surgery early in his second term.
    But Trump may have forfeited some of that sympathy by his mocking the wearing of masks.
    On the weekend after the Trump-Biden debate, a Wall Street Journal poll found that Trump had fallen 14 points behind Biden, and, in an average of national polls, Biden now led him by 8 points.
    Trump has four weeks to turn it around. And his task, while easy to describe, is not so easy to accomplish. He needs to persuade undecided and soft Biden voters that Joe is simply not up to the job of president.
    Assuming he is well enough to campaign as he used to, Trump has to convince the country that Joe Biden is too big a risk to take. He has two more debates to do what he failed to do in the first debate.
    Wednesday will be Mike Pence’s opportunity, in his debate with Kamala hαɾɾιs, to show that Trump made the right call in choosing him.
    He can pay back the favor by exposing the radicalism of the people and policies Joe Biden would bring with him into the White House.[/font][/size]

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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #1 on: October 06, 2020, 08:48:10 AM »
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    He needs to persuade undecided and soft Biden voters that Joe is simply not up to the job of president.

    Biden just very well might do that all by himself.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #2 on: October 06, 2020, 10:49:13 AM »
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    • The very fact that Biden is one of the 2 main candidates running says a LOT about the state of our Country, and none of it good!

    He's even the front-runner, according to the "polls". But then again, the Dems are massively preparing for a Trump landslide, so... I guess even they know how fake the polls are.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #3 on: October 06, 2020, 11:05:44 AM »
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    • I usually agree with Pat’s take on politics, but I find him off the mark with this article. I wish Trump would mock and ridicule the wearing of masks way more than he supposedly does. Does Pat believe this nonsense or does he think that most people do? I find that 75% of the people I encounter see it as overblown. Does Pat actually believe that those polls are accurate? If he does, I’ve got a bridge to sell him. By Trump’s rapid recuperation, he shows that he is strong, has stamina, and he exposes this boogeymen virus for what it really is, a bad flu.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #4 on: October 06, 2020, 11:08:42 AM »
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    • Also, what worries me is the cheating. Trump’s way ahead and will win by a big margin as long as they don’t rig it too much.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #5 on: October 06, 2020, 11:13:47 AM »
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    • Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on October 06, 2020, 11:05:44 AM
    I usually agree with Pat’s take on politics, but I find him off the mark with this article. I wish Trump would mock and ridicule the wearing of masks way more than he supposedly does. Does Pat believe this nonsense or does he think that most people do? I find that 75% of the people I encounter see it as overblown. Does Pat actually believe that those polls are accurate? If he does, I’ve got a bridge to sell him. By Trump’s rapid recuperation, he shows that he is strong, has stamina, and he exposes this boogeymen virus for what it really is, a bad flu.

    Well, I wish that Trump would have criticized the numbers when Biden accused him of presiding over 200,000 dead Americans.  That number is garbage, and Trump should have called it out.

    He only briefly suggested that masks were ineffective by citing that old famous interview from Fauci, where Fauci stated that masks are useless.
    But unfortunately most of these disjoined quips were made when both candidates were talking and the point was lost.

    Trump would have been better off making 2-minute articulate statements against the death numbers, against the lockdown, against the mask requirement.

    He did bungle the debate very badly.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #6 on: October 06, 2020, 11:19:31 AM »
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    • Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on October 06, 2020, 11:08:42 AM
    Also, what worries me is the cheating. Trump’s way ahead and will win by a big margin as long as they don’t rig it too much.

    It's hard to say, since a Trump victory depends entirely on some Rustbelt Democratic voters crossing over.  They did so in 2016 because Trump spoke out against the trade imbalances that were crippling manufacturing and hurting blue collar workers.

    But the Dem governors have been deliberately keeping their states in lockdown to keep hurting the economy, while attempting to persuade people that it's Trump's fault.  If they can suppress the economy until the election, they hope to keep those voters from crossing over.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #7 on: October 06, 2020, 11:35:49 AM »
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    • Pat, the President and his administration read all the major newspapers including NY Times.  So why are they conceding that ALL of the positive tests are actual infections?  Most of the positives in his admin are having no symptoms.  So it’s likely that only a few people are actually infected.  And it may not even be a Covid infection.  Getting sick, does NOT get Trump any sympathy.  If Biden got sick we’d see a lot of tears.  But Trump gets nothing but hate from msm.  So this was a good opportunity to attack Covid.  But they aren’t doing it.  Didn’t they read the NYT article that 90% of positives are false positives?  And even when it is a true positive, they can’t be sure it isn’t some other virus like the flu or common cold.  I think he should have gone on the offensive against the Covid hoax.  Also, given that more than 50% of the country is already saying they will refuse the vaccine, he should be backing off that as well.  Why rush it to market when so many people will refuse it?  Even if it doesn’t kill anyone, it will be seen as a failure with so little participation.  The msm will blame him for it.  He should back off and let Fauci take the blame for it.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #8 on: October 06, 2020, 11:42:30 AM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on October 06, 2020, 11:13:47 AM
    Well, I wish that Trump would have criticized the numbers when Biden accused him of presiding over 200,000 dead Americans.  That number is garbage, and Trump should have called it out.

    He only briefly suggested that masks were ineffective by citing that old famous interview from Fauci, where Fauci stated that masks are useless.
    But unfortunately most of these disjoined quips were made when both candidates were talking and the point was lost.

    Trump would have been better off making 2-minute articulate statements against the death numbers, against the lockdown, against the mask requirement.

    He did bungle the debate very badly.
    I mostly agree with you, however I think that even though he bungled it by interrupting and not talking about the real numbers, he still beat Biden. Biden lost in spite of Trump’s poor performance. I also think Trump did an adequate job exposing Hunter. 
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #9 on: October 06, 2020, 11:53:47 AM »
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    • Dan Bongino’s analysis sounded about right to me.  Trump needs his base to come out strong more than he needs to swing the few remaining undecideds his way. I don’t know of anyone who is undecided never mind anyone who swung over to Biden because of the debate.  In fact I heard that Trump’s performance was a hit with Mexicans because they appreciate an in your face approach.
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    Re: Ten Days That Shook the Presidency
    « Reply #10 on: October 06, 2020, 12:16:16 PM »
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    • Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on October 06, 2020, 11:42:30 AM
    I mostly agree with you, however I think that even though he bungled it by interrupting and not talking about the real numbers, he still beat Biden. Biden lost in spite of Trump’s poor performance. I also think Trump did an adequate job exposing Hunter.

    Yes, he did expose Hunter, but I'm thinking that people who weren't aware of the details regarding the Hunter situation might have just not gotten what he was talking about.  Again, he should have taken his time to expose this during one of his allotted 2-minute segments ... and explained it in a way that would make sense to people unacquainted with the situation.
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    « Reply #11 on: October 06, 2020, 12:17:32 PM »
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    • Quote from: Clemens Maria on October 06, 2020, 11:53:47 AM
    Dan Bongino’s analysis sounded about right to me.  Trump needs his base to come out strong more than he needs to swing the few remaining undecideds his way. I don’t know of anyone who is undecided never mind anyone who swung over to Biden because of the debate.  In fact I heard that Trump’s performance was a hit with Mexicans because they appreciate an in your face approach.

    True.  I think that one of the Latino polls (Telemundo or Univision, I forget which one) had about 2/3rds of viewers considering Trump the winner.
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