Biden flips script on Trump in campaign's final week

[Klaralven]

Donald Trump is chasing every possible opening across the electoral map. Joe Biden is sitting on his lead, carefully surveying the landscape for states that might serve as insurance policies.

It’s a jarring flip of the script for an incumbent president and his challenger eight days before Election Day. Trump, in the last gasp of his campaign, is barreling across the country, hoping large rallies and bets placed across the board will pay off for his underdog campaign. Biden is doing fewer and smaller events — and even peering past the election toward governing.

“To say it’s a role reversal is an understatement,” said Kelly Dietrich, a former Democratic fundraiser and founder of the National Democratic Training Committee, which trains candidates across the country.

Trump’s frenetic campaigning is occurring as the fates continue to defy his reelection campaign. Weeks after the president’s own hospitalization for Covid-19, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive on Saturday for the coronavirus amid spiking cases nationwide, even as Trump continued to downplay the pandemic. And what would normally be a signature achievement for an incumbent president, the imminent confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court was largely lost in the noise.

The heightened focus on the coronavirus comes at the worst possible time for Trump, providing a fresh hook for Biden to continue lacerating the Republican president for his handling of the coronavirus and the economy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/biden-and-trump-role-reversal-432347

[uriel1972]

1. "Tiny Violins For Trump"

[captain queeg]

2. I think trump knows he is toast. The campaign rallies are just to fleece as many rubes as possible

Before he’s kicked to the curb. Any money his “campaign” is collecting goes right into his pocket. Probably into secret bank accounts in other countries. I really hope after the election his assets are frozen till they can figure out where he’s stashing it all.

[Silent3]

3. My only problem with Republican donors getting fleeced...

...is that I can't get in on that action. Were there ever any more deserving rubes?

But there are other reasons Trump is out there:

1) He doesn't know what else to do with himself than soak up the adoration while he can.

2) The campaign and the Whitehouse staff want Trump distracted and busy anywhere else but at the Whitehouse.

3) Putin wants Trump to create maximum chaos between now and when Biden takes over. Stirring up the violent rabble who won't accept Trump's defeat is part of that.

[Bettie]

4. "The Fates continue to defy his reelection campaign"?

It isn't fate. It is choices, bad choices.

Choices that kill people.