Predictable Outcome
On KXEL Live & Local last week, former Iowa congressman Rod Blum predicted that no sooner had President Trump held a rally in Oklahoma would come news of a huge spike in COVID-19 cases.
Sure enough, the rally was Saturday and the report of an increase in cases came Monday.
Except, of course, the two are not related. Anyone in the arena Saturday who caught the virus wouldn’t have known by the time of that Monday report. Yet there are plenty of folks who make the connection and that’s the point. No one is saying the results were altered, but it seems far more than a coincidence from a timing standpoint.
Further proof that as in most re-election situations, this campaign is about Donald Trump far more than Joe Biden…all the analysis about Biden staying at home while the President hits the road, and that the best strategy for Biden is to stay where he is. Poll numbers are in his favor, for what limited good that is, and less Biden in the public eye means fewer Biden mistakes.
It’s the president’s election to win or lose, essentially…and anyone who thinks his approach or style will be different now from four years ago is mistaken. Even in the wake of news accounts that blame him for illness and death, and a host of other atrocities.
