by Ace:
Trump has only hit 52% or 53% a few times before on Rasmussen, and has rarely hit 50%.
Meanwhile, he’s taken his very first lead over Biden on Rasmussen, 47-46. That’s within the margin of error and a statistical tie, but hey, it’s something.
The race has narrowed over the past two weeks. Biden had a two-point lead last week, but that survey also marked the first time Trump had edged above 45% over the past two-and-a-half months. Prior to this week, Biden has bested Trump in every weekly survey since White House Watch began at the beginning of July.
A couple of days ago, a NeverTrumper named Danielle Pletka wrote in the Washington Post that the left’s embrace of rioting and revolution had driven her into Trump’s arms.
In 2016, I never considered voting for Donald Trump. The Johnny-come-lately Republican and his nasty schoolyard jibes seemed to me the worst degradation of American politics. But in 2020, I may be forced to vote for the man. Hear me out.
Her bona-fides as a Karen Wine Aunt are omitted. It’s the typical Ritual Malediction these idiots teach each other on Twitter as tribal shibboleths.
…But I fear the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party even more.
What is there to be afraid of? I fear that former vice president Joe Biden would be a figurehead president, incapable of focus or leadership, who would run a teleprompter presidency with the words drafted by his party’a hard-left ideologues. I fear that a Congress with Democrats controlling both houses — almost certainly ensured by a Biden victory in November — would begin an assault on the institutions of government that preserve the nation’s small “d” democracy. That could include the abolition of the filibuster, creating an executive-legislative monolith of unlimited political power; an increase in the number of Supreme Court seats to ensure a liberal supermajority; passage of devastating economic measures such as the Green New Deal; nationalized health care; the dismantling of U.S. borders and the introduction of socialist-inspired measures that will wreck an economy still recovering from the pandemic shutdown.
…I fear the grip of Manhattan-San Francisco progressive mores that increasingly permeate my daily newspapers, my children’s curriculums and my local government. I fear the virtue-signaling bullies who increasingly try to dominate or silence public discourse — and encourage my children to think that their being White is intrinsically evil, that America’s founding is akin to original sin. I fear the growing self-censorship that guides many people’s every utterance, and the leftist vigilantes who view every personal choice — from recipes to hairdos — through their twisted prisms of politics and culture. An entirely Democratic-run Washington, urged on by progressives’ media allies, would no doubt only accelerate these trends.
Are there problems on the right — horrible nasties on a par with the violent protesters who have lately inflicted untold damage on many U.S. cities, businesses and lives? You bet.
Really?
Where?
On Twitter?
Did a Big Trumpian Meanie call you Karen on Twitter, Karen?
The left are burning cities down and murdering people, Karen.
What are the “gun toting racists” actually doing, besides making you feel vaguely icky, Karen?
Anyway:
Nobody likes Biden. Nobody is voting for Biden beyond just party loyalty.
The real battle is for the Senate.
The Dems are all but conceding the Presidential election, as they hope to win the Senate, keep the House, and re-impeach Trump.
That’s the play, you watch.
@Nathan Blue: If I’m not mistaken, in 2016 the party whose presidential candidate won the state also won the Senate seat. If Trump holds onto all the states he won in ’16 and picks up Minnesota and New Hampshire (both very doable) the Republicans will pick up seats in Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire.
No, I think using the DOJ, FBI and IC to try and wreck the opposition candidate and, when that failed, to wreck Trump’s presidency is absolutely as low as US politics can possibly go… I hope.
ANYONE, right or left, that cares about the ongoing existence of this country could not possibly vote for Biden. Whatever anyone thought of Trump, whatever kind of disaster he was going to be, how he would fail or destroy the economy, it has all been totally dispelled and proved nothing but fear mongering. He might not promote the policies you want, but he will NOT be a puppet for the far, far left and utterly destroy our economy, borders and national defense as POLICY.