So what happens if we go "substantially above 100,000 deaths"?

[Solomon]

What will his supporters say?

[Funtatlaguy]

1. We won't. They knew that when they set the first 100,000 marker.

They want to say.....look how well we handled this, so much less death than expected.

[DonaldsRump]

3. Totally agree

This number was set as high as possible so that anything below this will be total victory because of Trump.

Anything higher would be blamed on Newsom, Cuomo, Pritzker, Whitmer et al.

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Yep. Spot on.

[coti]

8. I wouldn't be so sure of that. This is going to get dragged out for a long, long time.

Especially with some people so eager to declare it over. That'll start it right back up again.

[Alacritous Crier]

10. Exactly!

We will be well over 100K, maybe over 200K by the time the vaccine is ready and completely distributed. Of course that will be well after November so hopefully someone else will be in charge by then.


This is going to be a long, dismal journey.

[NickB79]

15. We've got another year of this

I'd be shocked if we didn't see a second wave this fall and winter. Possibly a third wave in the spring of 2021 if no vaccine is widely available by then.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. He will come up with another set of lies and bee ess, which they will swallow greedily.

[sop]

5. He'll blame it on the governors, Fauci, Birx, Pence and, yes, Obama and Biden.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

6. "Eh...What's for lunch?"

[bullwinkle428]

7. Remember - he initially claimed that 2.2 million could have died. He set this ridiculously

catastrophic bar, just so that anything significantly below that could be spun as a "victory".

[Andy823]

11. Exactly

he is really good and this kind of BS, set the bar high and declare victory when the final numbers come out.

He has the blood of all who died on his hands, no matter what the numbers are.

[uponit7771]

9. Buttery Males !!!! They did it

[Jim__]

12. Trump says he will do "a very good job" if only 200,000 people die in US from COVID-19

That headline is from Salon.

If we go over 100,000 - no problem.

[CanonRay]

13. They won't. They'll just quit counting

and declare victory

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. What are you going to do?