Failing Donald Trump campaign makes bizarre desperate last ditch move

| 9:09 am EDT June 19, 2020
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Just how badly is Donald Trump currently losing the 2020 election? Even today’s new Fox News poll says that Joe Biden is ahead of Trump by double digits nationwide. With every poll showing Biden winning nationally, and most polls showing Biden winning most swing states, Trump is in deep trouble. So are the people running his failing campaign.

So now the Trump campaign is trying the bizarre desperate last ditch move of demanding that Joe Biden agree to more than the three customary debates. When you consider Donald Trump’s visibly worsening physical health and collapsing cognitive abilities, sending him out there for any debates at all is a risky move. Sending him out there for additional debates is an extremely low percentage play that’s likely to backfire.

The only hope Trump has of making this work is if Biden refuses additional debates, thus allowing Trump to campaign on the notion that Biden is somehow afraid of it. This is a foolish strategy to say the least. But Trump is losing so badly, and thus has so little to lose, his campaign is trying it anyway.

So what happens when a presidential campaign makes this kind of risky move this early in the general election cycle? All that Joe Biden has to do is say “yes” to this debate demand, and the Trump campaign’s plan falls apart. We’d say that the people running Trump’s campaign are bound to get fired and replaced soon, but it’s not clear that Trump is coherent enough to even make such a decision.

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