Pragmatic version: “I am certain that your inherent morbidity, bad spirits and pessimism won't help you cope with this dangerous virus that you tell everyone isn't dangerous.”
The trump score has sunk below zero. It's in a negative scale now. He's about as low as one can get. Time to kick him to the curb, get out your vote!
An article a day before Trump tested positive for the coronavirus and was still planning on rallying in Wisconsin. Coronavirus-ravaged Wisconsin sweats Trump rallies excerpt: “My county is a swing county in a swing state and we’re one the hottest spots in the country,” Nelson said. "He ought to cancel his trip. But if he comes, he should visit one of our packed hospitals to see what he has done to our country." To Nelson’s point: hospitals are becoming so overwhelmed, state officials recently warned they might soon need to open a field hospital on the state fairgrounds to take in the overflow."
Parscale has resigned completely from Trump's orbit. He was still handling digital operations for Trump's campaign after being demoted from campaign manager in July. Brad Parscale resigns from Trump campaign after threatening to harm himself over the weekend
It's a dark thought, but some are now surmising that it could even be Trump-less with Pence effectively running for president in 2020.
Not sure if that would be good, or bad. Some might look upon Pence as being less evil. What happens if Pence runs as president, trump recovers, and wants his job back? What happens if Joe has the virus? Let's say it comes down to a Pence vs Harris election? Since people have already started voting. . . . many things to consider. Aw the hell with it. Just put Nancy in as POTUS.
Let's hope Nancy stays healthy or we get 87 year old Chuck Grassley! That's the line of succession if the President should die while in office. If he's just incapacitated, we get the 25th Amendment. But what if something happens to party nominees before they're elected, which would include the President if he's running for re-election? Does Pence become the Republican presidential candidate? Not automatically. And if the VP is also dead or incapacitated, obviously the Republicans don't have to run Nancy or Chuck. The National Committee of the party concerned would have to reconvene and pick a new nominee, who would probably be Pence or Harris, as the case may be, especially this close to the election. But not necessarily. And the problem is that the states have already printed their ballots, and millions of Americans have already voted, including me just yesterday. This in a year when Trump has already been talking up election irregularities! Hoo, boy! Never thought I'd say this, but I wish Trump a speedy recovery.
I have no clue. Could Congress put a stop to the election, and have a do over? People who have already voted probably won't want to vote again.
Trump got a freak October surprise while he was trying desperately to pivot the news cycle away from the coronavirus. He's been a karma lightning rod for calamities in 2020. An October surprise like no other Trump may sail through this without any negative health effects, confirming his robustness and demonstrating to his true believers that virus isn't really that bad. Or he may not. Jacob Greber, United States correspondent Oct 2, 2020 – 6.55pm An October surprise like no other excerpts: "First Boris Johnson, then Jair Bolsonaro and now – with Americans already voting early in record numbers – Donald Trump has been stricken by a virus that all three men pointedly downplayed, dismissed and disparaged. The timing is devastating for Trump on a number of counts. First, the need to remain quarantined inside the White House, presumably for the best part of the next two weeks, robs his campaign of the one thing that sustains it: large, raucous in-person rallies in front of supporters across the country's swing states." "Second, the diagnosis punches a hole in the President's magical thinking about the pandemic, its spread and its impact. Spend any time with his supporters and they'll inevitably tell you the virus is a hoax and cynically insist the pandemic would be lifted on November 4, the day after the election, if Biden were to win."
Two weeks of quarantine for Trump interferes with an in-person appearance at the second planned debate but a 10-day isolation doesn't. Chris Wallace says he plans to have a coronavirus test after being in the same auditorium with Trump's mouth. Trump COVID-19: Future of presidential debates uncertain after positive test