People really did not like Trump’s performance during the debate.
Courtesy of NBC News:
Joe Biden’s national lead over President Donald Trump nearly doubled after Tuesday’s presidential debate, with voters saying by a 2-to-1 margin that Biden has the better temperament to be president, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The poll was conducted in the two days after the unruly and insult-filled Sept. 29 debate, but before Trump tested positive for Covid-19 and was hospitalized Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
The Democratic nominee is now ahead of Trump by 14 points among registered voters, 53 percent to 39 percent — up from his 8-point lead in the previous poll before the debate.
That 14-point advantage represents Biden’s largest lead in the NBC News/WSJ poll during the entirety of the 2020 presidential campaign; his previous high was 11 points in July.
To be honest I am not exactly sure how much polls can tell us in light of Trump’s recent Coronavirus diagnosis.
However, I did want to track where we were before the rug got pulled out from under the whole process.
I talked to both my mother and sister yesterday who had a number of questions about what happens now.
My response to them, as it will be to you, is that nobody knows.
There are a number of possible scenarios that might play out, and all of them will introduce an almost entirely new set of circumstances that we have not really seen before.
If I had to pull out my crystal ball I would suggest that Joe Biden will emerge victorious from all of this, that we are far less likely to see this election decided in the courts than we were even a few days ago, and that the Republicans will lose the Senate.
There are some unpredictable variables in all of this, but those seem to be the likeliest scenarios.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/amy-coney-barrett-buried-by-al-franken-in-brutal-msnbc-interview/
“Not only are the Republican members of the Senate hypocrites, they wouldn’t meet with Merrick Garland. They lied about what the so-called Biden Rule was. there was no Biden Rule.” – “Also she’s a terrible choice in so many ways,” said Franken. “I questioned her, as you may remember, she had taken money from the [Alliance Defending Freedom], a hate group, Southern Poverty Law Center had labeled them as a hate group. They are for the sterilization of transgender people. She took money from them. She’s an extreme choice and believes … that life starts at conception and that it would be a crime to destroy an egg that was fertilized in in vitro fertilization, a frozen egg.”
If she had any valor and/or decency, she’d postpone any proceedings given the state of Trump.
What brain trust would bring her kid to a COVID fest?
Amy Coney Barrett, that’s who.
https://twitter.com/simonhedlin/status/1312807377448693760
We really needed Al Franken in the Senate these last two years. Kirsten Gillibrand and Kamala Harris were instrumental in forcing him to resign before he had his due process. A process that would have exhonorated him. That is why I am less enthusiastic about a Biden/Harris ticket. Basically the last two candidates I wanted to vote for. Oh, sure, I’ll vote for them, even though in my state it wouldn’t matter, they’d win anyway. But I am pissed I have to vote for Harris. Her ambition removed a valuable member of the Democratic Party during a critical time.
My only consolation, small as it is, is that Kirsten Gillibrand flamed out so early. In her hubris, she really thought people would forget and she had a shot. I read that the donors that were leaving her cited her treatment of Al Franken as the reason. Harris didn’t do much better so really hate that Biden chose her.
This has nothing to do with competence. Every candidate was competent. Even the power crystal chick would have made a better president than Trump. This has to do with character. The presidency is all about character. It is one of Biden’s few positives. But I don’t care for Harris’ character and nothing I have heard or seen has changed my mind.
“Trump pulled a mask from his coat pocket and said he wears it “when needed.” But he was critical of Biden, saying “I don’t wear a mask like him. Every time you see him, he has got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet from you and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”
In the interview with Woodward on April 13, Trump left no doubt about the seriousness of the coronavirus. “This rips you apart,” he said. He recalled someone sneezing inside a room at the White House and “the entire room bailed out, including me,” fearing the virus was being spread.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/10/03/president-donald-trump-coronavirus-bob-woodward-audio-recording/3607185001/
Yeah right, COVID boy.
OMG, they are still mocking Biden for “hiding in his basement” and look who is in the hospital.
Biden said he is going to the next debate which is a town hall, let’s hope donnie stays home this time.
Hillary could come back and take the whole thing.
No thanks. She already brought us Trump once.
I have been mailing murder hornets to Walter Reed hospital. Trump will like some visitors.
I can almost guarantee you that any tweet coming from him is NOT him but someone else.
Biden was suppose to have another test this morning, is it 24 hrs for results?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/trump-bypasses-kayleigh-mcenany-dictates-hospital-bed-statement-to-rudy-giuliani-report/
“I feel I could get out of here right now. But they’re telling me there can always be a backstep with this disease. But I feel I could go out and do a rally,”
“I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room. … I had to confront [the virus] so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly,” he argued.
“I’m going to beat this,” Trump predicted. “Then I will be able to show people we can deal with this disease responsibly, but we shouldn’t be afraid of it.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/03/trump-tells-rudy-giuliani-im-going-to-beat-covid-19/
There is a chance that Lindsey Graham could lose his seat.
https://news.yahoo.com/lindsey-graham-hammered-democrat-opponent-061736353.html?guccounter=1
“Senator Graham is tied with Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison at 48 per cent each, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, in a race that has become unexpectedly competitive and could play a role in flipping control of the Senate.
Mr Harrison has seen a surge in donations since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the incumbent Graham’s u-turn on his previous pledge to not fill a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year.
Reportedly $9m was donated to the Democrat in the three days following Justice Ginsburg’s death.”
I hope Harrison is an example of the new Democrats who don’t hold back and state it forcefully. The don’t take shit and give more than you get kind of Democrat.
“Accusing the Senator of going back on his word on the issue to the American people and the people of South Carolina, Mr Harrison called it the “greatest heresy” you can do as a public servant is to betray the trust of the people.
“Just be a man about it,” he said, “and stand up and say, ‘You know what? I changed my mind. I’m going to do something else.’ But don’t go back and blame it on somebody else for a flip-flop that you’re making yourself.””
Just be a man about it. Oooo. That’s gonna leave a mark.
“Mr Harrison retorted at one point: “What we haven’t seen with Senator Graham and Senate Republicans is the same urgency to pass Covid relief like they are trying to ram through a Supreme Court nominee.””
Zing!
Apparently right after the debate Harrison reaped around $350,000 in donations. Graham wasn’t forthcoming about his donations so you know they sucked. Graham is desperate. He even begged for money during the debate.
It will fulfill a fond desire or mine to see Lindsey Graham lose his seat. (Like Jeff Sessions before him.) I will be ecstatic when McConnell is finally gone from the Senate.
oh boo hoo hoo, Miss Lindsey can go down to Mar a Lardass and keep his buddy trump company, hopefully Mitch will join them in their retirement.