* sufficient polling seems to be coming out now to conclude that the GOP convention did not lead to any substantial improvement for Trump;
* Trump's popularity within what you would normally consider the natural ally of any "law and order" President - the military - seems to have taken a substantial hit from which it is unlikely to recover.
Remember I said when the RussianS paying for hits on American troops story came out that I thought it was going to important? Although it did quickly disappear off the news radar, I still reckon it may have been important for hurting the military's regard for him, as was shown by the recent polling indicating that he had lost popularity there. Now that credible reporting is out that he privately has the most ridiculously selfish view of military service [confirmed by a Fox News correspondent, no less!], I can't see his popularity with those who he was probably hoping would back him in a post election crisis over disputed election results will ever be returning.
Truth be told, the upper reaches of the Pentagon would have been privately grinding their teeth from day one about what a complete ignoramus he is, but it has taken some time for the dismissive view of him to filter down to lower ranks.
Even the kerfuffle about whether Stars and Stripes would close looks bad for Trump. He has said it will not close, but the timing of the suggestion it would close within weeks looks very peculiar.
* The Trump open encouragement for his supporters to vote twice smells of desperation.
* Trump's judgement in what to say about real or virtual dictators who kill their political enemies remains as "off" as ever. I know it won't matter to his cult followers, who are blind and dumb, but surely Trump's campaigners don't think this is a useful line to be running in a week when another Russian poisoning of an opposition politician is confirmed:
At a small campaign rally in Latrobe, Pa., President Trump on Thursday praised himself for wanting to “get along” with Russia and said that when he hears people talking about Russia in the news he “turns it off.”
“They always say, ‘Trump is radical, he is off the — he is too radical, he will get us in wars,’” Mr. Trump said. “I kept you out of wars. What happened in North Korea? I got along with Kim Jong-un. They said that’s terrible. It’s good that I get along. If I get along with Russia, is that a good thing or bad thing? I think it’s a good thing.”
* That said, it is a worry that the electoral college seems so skewed now that Biden may have to win the popular view by a really substantial margin to be sure of getting enough electoral college votes.
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Trump merely echoing what he said about McCain and his POW days.
of course that is Trump drawing on his very large military experience.
"Remember I said when the Russian soldiers paying for hits on American troops story came out that I thought it was going to important?"
Thats fake news. The soldiers aren't as gullible as you. Or me for that matter because you had me suckered in for a whole day on this nonsense. Money has changed hands between Russia and the Taliban. Thats to do with having a peaceful border and not anything to do with scalp based finance.
"The Trump open encouragement for his supporters to vote twice smells of desperation. "
The people who start a lot of front-groups have a new one. Its called the "Transitional Integrity Program" which means its opposite. They have a fully spelled out plan to hijack the election using mail in votes as just one of the elements in the plan. Guess who the parent organisation is?
"At a small campaign rally in Latrobe, Pa., President Trump on Thursday praised himself for wanting to “get along” with Russia and said that when he hears people talking about Russia in the news he “turns it off.”
Thats good and he ought to get along with Iran, Venezuela, and Syria also. But there are people out there who always want people fighting each other.
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