The paranoia is great. The left engages in happy talk to calm such fears. CNN's never Trumper Matt Lewis, wishfully speculates in his latest column, "Trump’s Failed Coronavirus Response Cost Him Incumbent’s Edge", that is, this crisis is a major blow to Trump's re election chances and provides a boost to the 77 year old Biden.
Why? Well, a couple reasons Lewis asserts. First, the economy is tanked, so that helps the Democrats, and Trump now can't "mock and smear Joe Biden", in this time of crisis. It would be unseemly.
In his subtitle Lewis says:
"The coronavirus did what nothing else has: It neutralized Trump’s ability to humiliate a foe, while giving Biden the perfect reason to lay low." Excellent timing!
Biden is laying low because he stinks as a candidate. His handlers are wise to keep him away from real questioners and voters. And as far as humiliating Joe Biden, well in time, Biden will take care of that himself.
Other Lewis claims.
Lewis wants it both ways on the economy. On one hand Trump is willing to "sacrifice millions of lives", to get re elected, and as the theory goes Trump must re open the country, prematurely, to save the economy.
According to Lewis Trump is willing to risk the lives of America's senior citizens, and diabetics if that is what it takes to get re elected.
On the other hand if the economy is doing poorly this fall Lewis and his left wing allies will happily use it against President Trump.
Lewis also seems to contradict himself on another point. In a previous column Lewis asserted that "This is a man (Trump) who responded to a pandemic by thinking, “How can I be on TV more?” It’s truly depraved." Implying that Trump was using this pandemic to advance his election chances. The daily press briefings are akin to a Trump rally.
But in this column he takes the opposite position
Trump is a master at distracting us from big news stories. Except, with this one, he can’t just change the subject with a mean tweet. As Dr. Fauci has said, “The virus determines what the timetable is, not us.” (God help us if another story comes along that is big enough to overtake the COVID-19 headlines.)
Well, which is it? Trump likes the crisis for the attention it gives him, or does he want to change the subject?
Has Lewis considered the possibility that it is not changing the subject or playing politics, rather he is doing his job and rallying the nation to fight the pandemic.
Lewis's wishful thinking:
"Joe Biden was poised to be that sitting duck. Although his high name ID makes him less susceptible than past challengers to being “defined” by an incumbent president, one could certainly imagine a scenario where Trump would have unleashed ungodly amounts of money attacking Joe Biden this spring."
Trump has a job to do. It is not about Joe Biden. Sure right now, if there was no Chinese flu to deal with, Trump could be pointing out what a liberal Joe Biden is, how Joe Biden has opposed conservative judicial nominees for three decades. How Joe opposed the Reagan revolution. How Joe wants to put a gun grabber in charge of gun policy, how Joe supported the Iraq war. etc.
In addition Lewis speculates that had we not had this Chinese flu Trump could bring up "The Hunter Biden/Burisma “scandal." Oh, that's right. Biden's unqualified son got a job in the Ukraine, a country he was not familiar with, in the oil and gas business, an industry he had no knowledge of, because his father was in charge of US policy regarding the Ukraine.
I wonder if Hunter told his father that he was applying for a job in the Ukraine? A question that no one on CNN will bring up.
Also, Lewis fails to point out how Biden opposed Trump's decision, in late January to block travel to China, which Biden called "fear mongering". Had Trump listened to Biden hundreds of thousand of people would have been flying in and out of china to America, while the disease was spreading.
Lewis looks at the politics, but Trump has a job to do, and ultimately he is judge on that record.
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