The polls are looking good (check these new ratings from Larry Sabato), so everyone who wants Donald Trump out of the White House can spend more time worrying about people being able to vote and the integrity of the election. Some shenanigans turned up on that front today that we're not keen on. Greg Abbott is limiting ballot drop-off locations in Texas to one per county — and the Russians are still at it.
Still, it appears to be another lost week for Benedict Donald. Here are a few thoughts.
Trump must have decided that the Hunter Biden-Burisma thingy wasn't going to fly any more. After all, it's too complicated to hurl across a debate stage in a three-second soundbite. So Tuesday night, as Joe Biden was talking about his late son Beau, Trump yapped: "Hunter got thrown out of the military. He was thrown out, dishonorably discharged for cocaine use." Funny that he picked drug use to go after, seeing as how Kellyanne Conway hasn't solved the opioid epidemic yet.
While we're talking addiction, it was amusing yesterday to see news flashes about Brad "Weird Beard" Parscale deciding to "step away" from the Trump campaign. Gee — in our experience, five weeks out from Election Day, campaign staffers are working their tails off 24/7. So if you're home in Florida, drinking a case of beer every day and beating up your wife, you've kinda "stepped away" already.
Finally, it took a little while for us to realize that it was Joe Biden — not Chris Wallace — who said the name "Proud Boys" on the debate stage the other night. Which means the fallout that's been so damaging for Trump (have you seen the photos of the Proud Boys founder sitting behind Trump at his rallies?) is thanks to Biden. Not bad for a guy who's supposed to be "sleepy."
In fact, if you look back on Joe's national debate performances — 2008, when he had to walk through the minefield that was Sarah Palin; 2012, when he had to right the ship after Obama's bad outing against Willard; and now, 2020 — he's done pretty darn well. We cats PURR.
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