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EarlG

(21,935 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 12:10 AM Oct 2020

Okay, so the final debate is over

the phony Hunter Biden story is dead in the water (if you're not already living in the Fox News bubble), the 60 Minutes "tough questions" interview will be broadcast on Sunday, and then there's just over a week to go.

How do you think Trump is going to spend the remaining time between now and election day?

I assume he'll still be out there getting people infected with COVID at his superspreader rallies -- but anything else? Or are we just going to get another couple weeks of whining and bad vaudeville about flushing the toilet?

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Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
1. I think Trump will be out there campaigning a lot.
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 12:13 AM
Oct 2020

Some on the fence Trumpers ("undecided" voters) are now comfortable to vote for him again (like they weren't going to LOL). The media will run the "race is tightening" narrative for the rest of the weeks.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,010 posts)
2. I think they will keep dredging the swamp to see if there is another 2016 Comey type thing
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 12:15 AM
Oct 2020

(of course so far anything they've tried has been a complete flop).

It is worth remembering the Comey letter dropped last Oct 28, 10 days before the election. Looking at 538 plots, it probably did have some effect.

We are now 11 days from the election (after midnight here) - let's see what bullshit they try to pull in the remaining time.

But...so many have voted. And the only way with a party devoid of ideas, with a buffoon as president, can win at this point will be to cheat.

I will be watching the aggregate and state polls in the next few days to see if there is any debate bump at all for either. But if Joe can keep the current lead.....

As to what trump will be doing - endlessly campaigning and saying stupid shit - being his own worst enemy, probably, if he wants to get anyone that is not his cult to vote for him.

ornotna

(10,796 posts)
3. Hard to predict what this unstable fool is going to do
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 12:20 AM
Oct 2020

More rallies for sure and to be as destructive as possible. He's a mad man.

MissB

(15,804 posts)
5. He's not done trying to squeeze an October surprise out of his ass
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 12:39 AM
Oct 2020

But yeah he’ll keep playing SuperSpreader-in-chief because he needs the adulation fix.

I think we should be running polls on what he does *after* the election.

Goes golfing every day?

Gets tied up in divorce court?

Forgets to deck the halls of the White House for Christmas?

Marries Hope Hicks in a last minute Rose Garden ceremony, despite the freezing temps?

Takes the portrait of Lincoln on the last day in office?

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,271 posts)
6. Many people are saying his investigators found Obama's birth certificate
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 03:07 AM
Oct 2020

Any day now, Fox will announce trumPutin is closing the gap on Obama's poll numbers.

Squinch

(50,924 posts)
7. Not only do I think he will continue the rallies up till the election,
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 03:18 AM
Oct 2020

I would bet my house that he will continue the rallies AFTER he loses. No kidding. I bet he does.

mopinko

(70,025 posts)
8. he'll be back on the balcony.
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 06:20 AM
Oct 2020

throwing small brown children to the crowd.
maybe he'll make mother's boy dangle barron.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,272 posts)
9. He'll be setting the ground for legal challenges galore
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 09:16 AM
Oct 2020

Trying to get ballots rejected now; trying to make absentee ballots seen as 'second class', so that he can demand counts are stopped; pumping up the armed intimidators for election day.

Suing has always been his basic business tactic. It won't matter to him whether the legal challenges have any credibility; the more there are, the more confusion there will be. It's not his money that will be paying for them. If he's lucky, a few will survive. He's stuffed the courts with cronies for 4 years, after all.

ooky

(8,908 posts)
12. Nothing else. Nothing new.
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 09:40 AM
Oct 2020

Doing magat rallies and lying is all he knows how to do.

This has been the longest October, ever.

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