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ANALYSIS | After a wild week, the Trump train seems to be about to completely derail

2020-09-04T17:36:46.778Z


Trump will ignite a new uproar very soon. It is clearer than ever that his platform for this choice is his own savage behavior.


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There have been many weeks when it seemed like the Trump train was going to roll off the tracks.

But in the seven days since the Republican convention, the president has been perhaps closer than ever to a total derailment.

The outrages, conspiracy theories, and drama have come so fast that it's almost impossible to believe Donald Trump can keep this going for another eight weeks until Election Day.

But as Democratic candidate Joe Biden begins to travel and offer an alternative vision of sober presidential-style leadership, the events of the past few days have clarified the clash of personalities and issues that will decide the race.

On Thursday, even the president and the White House seemed to think he might have gone too far with his suggestion that North Carolinians try to vote twice to test electoral security, a potential crime and the president's latest attempt. to consider an illegitimate election that polls suggest you may lose.

At a rally Thursday in Pennsylvania, Trump again called mail ballots a "disgrace", accusing the dogs of having received them in the mail.

He advised his supporters to "follow" their ballots and vote if they are not tabulated.

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In just the latest sign that staggering events are the norm in Trump's presidency, he withdrew the press group from the White House after returning to Andrews Air Force Base from his rally Thursday night to deny who had mocked the sacrifice of America's war dead and once again insulted the late Senator John McCain following an article in The Atlantic magazine Thursday about him disparaging the military.

CNN has not independently verified The Atlantic's reports.

Biden issued a statement saying that if the allegations were true, they would be "yet another indicator of how deeply President Trump and I disagree on the role of the President of the United States."

Trump will ignite a new uproar very soon.

It's clearer than ever that his platform for this election is his own savage demeanor that animates his hyperbolic claim that a Democratic presidency would see the suburbs burned down by rioters, not the statesman script choreographed at the Republican Convention.

No president in modern history has entered a re-election race warning that the process of electing a government that is the foundation of American democracy is illegitimate.

Trump's conduct risks a total post-election constitutional crisis.

In addition to the North Carolina furor, Trump claimed this week that planes full of dark-clad protesters were crossing the country.

He appeared to justify the actions of a teenage "vigilante" who killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He denied having had a series of "mini strokes", which led to speculation about his health.

It emerged that the president and Russia are once again on the same page, as an intelligence report revealed that Moscow also spreads misinformation about voting by mail to damage the integrity of the elections.

And he mocked Biden for wearing a mask as the country continues to lead the world in coronavirus cases, with more than 6 million infections.

Trump also visited Kenosha, the last American city consumed by racial tensions and protests that turned violent after the shooting of a black man by police.

However, Trump did not bring reconciliation and appeared to block black pastors from speaking out about racial injustice.

He compared the brutality of police officers shooting armed black men with golfers in yips choking on a "three foot putt."

And, as always, the president has ignored the worst internal crisis since World War II, a pandemic that has killed 185,000 Americans and continues to rise, as a key model predicts 410,000 deaths from coronavirus in the US by the end of the year. year.

On Thursday, hours after the final day's death figures showed the loss of another 1,000 Americans, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany played a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, without a mask, at the beginning of your briefing.

The Democrat's slippage exposed her to well-deserved charges of hypocrisy and was a bad mistake.

Yet it was not the biggest crisis facing the nation that must be addressed by a White House that has repeatedly demonstrated a profound lack of seriousness during the pandemic.

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Still, while Trump's consistently disruptive behavior and his refusal to play the role of a traditional president horrifies Beltway elites, it is exactly what makes him attractive to supporters who have long been bitter with mainstream politicians.

The more he attacks the media, the more his base and his conservative media cheerleaders love him.

The question is whether a president who looked like he was waging an endless GOP primary campaign every day for four years can secure a path to victory without broadening his base.

Biden behaves like a shadow president

As the storm hit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Biden has done everything he can to offer Americans a more traditional style of presidential leadership.

He delivered a speech in Pittsburgh on Monday condemning violence in all its forms.

"Riots are not protesting, looting is not protesting," declared Biden, while making a strident call for racial justice.

He also offered his condolences for the death of one of the president's supporters in riots in Portland, Oregon.

He held a presidential-style forum on the "national emergency" in schools and universities as a new academic year began, stunted by COVID-19.

Biden followed Trump to Kenosha on Thursday, but actually spoke to Jacob Blake, the man seriously injured by police.

He counseled the family and spoke about the need for reconciliation and police and social reform, taking on the anger and fear in the country as a normal president would be expected to do.

The Democratic candidate spent the week trying to dispel the caricature of a "Trojan horse" for looters, rioters, anarchists and maniacs, with which he was labeled in the NCR and that Trump has since pushed forward.

Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?

Biden asked in Pittsburgh, using one of his possible weaknesses, a nearly 50-year career in politics, during which many Americans have followed his tragedies and rebounds, as a shield.

Biden's performance may have eased the nerves of some Democrats who seemed scared by the discipline of the Republican convention last week.

A good survey also helps.

Various national polls show Trump did not get the rebound he needed from the convention since he is still behind.

The race seems tighter in swing states, but Biden is well positioned everywhere, leaving the president with a growing problem given the fact that many states begin sending out absentee ballots in the days and weeks ahead.

The Trump campaign insists the polls are wrong and boasts of a legion of new Trump voters who had previously been undetected and who were not active in 2016.

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The contrasting styles of Biden and Trump this week point to the election that will be shown in a now crucial first presidential debate in just over three weeks, and which will finally be decided on November 3, or when the deluge of votes for mail are counted.

Does a sufficient portion of the country still want an irresponsible and politically incorrect president who seems willing to bring down the country around him?

Will the cultural connection that Trump has forged with his fervent grassroots voters, especially on racial issues, replace concerns about his mishandling of a pandemic that has shut down normal life?

Or with no end in sight to the crisis, are there 270 electoral votes to elevate an aging, temperate and traditional president in Biden, who, instead of a constant uproar, offers to serve as a counselor in tough times? ?

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Source: cnnespanol

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