Americans love the Underdog. The Cinderella story. The “against all odds” or “Bad News Bears” or “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of story.
At what point do the scales tip and the country starts actually rooting for The Donald to beat me?
Is it finding out the next debate moderator completely changed the agreed debate theme from foreign policy to Covid and race relations? The only two areas I consistently lead in the polls.
Robert Gates, who served as the defense secretary in the Obama-Biden administration said I had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. So, foreign policy is not my strong suit.
How about the media not even hiding that they are in my corner. After breathless years of “Russia Russia Russia”, with every moment a bombshell, and Pulitzers handed out like candy …all based on a nothing to the story… then, my own corrupt China dealings or Ukraine issues – nothing. Nothing.
Or more than nothing. Facebook and Twitter has allowed every negative Trump story including leaks and stolen info, but blocked legitimate news stories from the Washington Post and NY Post that were negative to me. Idiot Chuck Schumer is peddling the theory that this is a Russian disinformation hoax. Which it isn’t. Don’t the voters eventually get disappointed or even disgusted with this?
How about the polls themselves? They all say I have no chance of losing. No chance. But self-identified Democrats outnumber Republicans in most polls, sometimes by a wide margin. A Gallop poll that is taken every month since 2004 asking party affiliation of Americans shows that more people are identifying as Republicans right now. That’s only happened 9 times out of the last 100 surveys. The RNC reports that they knock on a million doors a week. The DNC isn’t knocking on any. There is a huge divide in number of new registered voters in favor of the Republicans – especially in the key states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
Are the polls correct? Are they manipulated? Are they trying to dissuade Republican voters by making them feel they have no chance? Could they have the opposite effect and motivate Republican voters to prove them wrong? Like in 2016?
This isn’t a David vs. Goliath story where I am David. I saw a post that described this as a fight between a bloated, corrupt cockroach, a career politician, propped up by a staff of elitists versus an orange evil Godzilla. And, when do the people start rooting for Godzilla to squash the bug?
It’s in our DNA as Americans. We all believe we have it in us, to overcome obstacles. We tend to root for the guy who has everyone against him.
Yikes. Did they really call me bloated? Not fair. I have been working out…
Come on, man.