So much for Donald Trump’s “enthusiasm” advantage
Now that Donald Trump’s poll numbers are worse than ever, his campaign advisers are trying to convince him that he’s actually somehow magically winning, because some polls suggest that his voters are more “enthusiastic” than Joe Biden’s voters.
This is irrelevant, of course, because it’s not as if the more “enthusiastic” voters get to vote twice or something. This is just a talking point that Trump’s handlers are trying to use to placate him so he doesn’t fire them. Meanwhile back in the real world, the most recent election results in Georgia show that the enthusiasm is actually on the other side:
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Dear Trump website guy Brad @parscale: FYI about that “enthusiasm” you keep mentioning. https://t.co/9r3FCKcaAb
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 3, 2020
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Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report