Donald Trump is flailing around like a fish with rabies

| 4:30 pm EST November 13, 2018
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Can a fish actually get rabies? Hey, it’s 2018, so any weird thing is probably possible. Now that he’s lost the House, and Robert Mueller is breathing down his neck, Donald Trump has begun flailing around like a proverbial fish, seemingly aware that he’s swiftly being backed into a corner. He’s also begun acting in more rabid fashion than ever, suggesting that whatever is left of his brain is further cracking.

For instance, even though the Republicans are going to retain the majority in the Senate no matter what, Donald Trump has become bizarrely frazzled over the prospect of losing Senate seats in Arizona and Florida. Over the weekend, as Democratic candidate Kyrsten Sinema pulled further ahead thanks to mail-in votes, Trump tweeted “Just out — in Arizona, SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. Electoral corruption – Call for a new Election? We must protect our Democracy!” Wait, did he seriously just call for a new election?

Of course the “new election” thing was going to go nowhere, and by Monday night, Republican candidate Martha McSally had conceded, after acknowledging that there was no voter fraud in the state. But Trump’s freak-out about Florida, where the races for Senator and Governor are still in play, got even weirder.

Donald Trump posted this tweet, which might be his most deranged yet: “The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!” Did he just say infected? Why would that word even be on his mind? Maybe Trump really does have rabies.