Trump bets on a 2016 replay, but faces a changed landscape
Trump and his advisers are betting on a high-octane replay of the closing two weeks of his 2016 campaign, with nonstop travel for packed rallies filled with attacks on alleged Democratic corruption in a bid to reignite the outsider spirit that defied the polls once before.
Despite health authorities discouraging his largely maskless outdoor events and an opponent who has maintained strong favorability ratings, Trump is urgently trying to reassemble the core elements of his 2016 upset win: news coverage of red-hatted spectacles, calls for a criminal investigation of his rival and the mischaracterization of allegedly leaked documents in the final stretch of the campaign.
A Trump rally in Ohio on Saturday showed how much he is reaching back to 2016. He told the crowd, apparently referring to wrongdoing by his opponents, “there’s something going on. It happened this time four years ago. This time more.”
The crowd began a “lock him up” chant — an echo of the “lock her up” calls against Hillary Clinton — after Trump described alleged spying on his campaign by Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama. Trump then pretended to tell the crowd to stop, saying mockingly: “It’s much better if I say, ‘No, no, no, please.’?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-biden-campaign-replay-2016/2020/10/24/de322200-1566-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
He's hoping for an October surprise like Comey's about Anthony Weiner's laptop.
They've already tried this with Hunter Biden without success.
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