POTUS BOWL 2020: A MEME IS A WISH YOUR <3 MAKES

[Trolly]

+7 in PA post-debate polling is a knockout punch.

[anon38180840]

@Trolly

+7 in PA post-debate polling is a knockout punch.

Only if you want to beat a dead horse.

[simplicitus]

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1312484575637991425?s=19

[mosdef]

Oops!

[econophile]

Unskewing the polls!

[pvn]

@pvn

Seems like kind of a big deal if she was actually in the debate venue or not.

if not that would almost certainly indicate they knew she was pozzed and left her on the plane.

did we ever get more information on whether or not hicks was at the debate and/or if she was on AF1 tuesday night? At this point it seems almost impossible that they didn’t know Trump was pozzed by wednesday morning, but if they knew tuesday afternoon that would be a huge bombshell

[Riverman]

All the evidence suggests they knew Tuesday and were hoping to cover it up as long as he didn’t show symptoms.

Remember, we only learned about Hope Hicks because a journalist figured it out. They didn’t tell anyone.

[anon38180840]

[MasterofthePwn]

How did the journalist figure it out?

[anon38180840]

My guess is Hicks leaked.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

So for everyone worried that Trump’s Covid diagnosis might help him electorally:

Poll Finds Voters in Two Crucial States Repelled by Trump’s Debate Behavior...

The surveys began Wednesday, before the early Friday announcement that President Trump had contracted the coronavirus. There was modest evidence of a shift in favor of Mr. Biden in interviews on Friday, including in Arizona where a Times/Siena survey is in progress, after controlling for the demographic and political characteristics of the respondents.

[Riverman]

https://twitter.com/adanthar/status/1312475422517465090?s=21

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

It is a shame the debate is being pushed out of the news though, because it does appear to have been an unmitigated disaster for him:

“I think that Donald Trump acted like a big bully on the stage,” said Cindy Von Waldner, 63, a lifelong Republican from Titusville, Fla. The president began to lose her support when the pandemic hit, and she said she did not believe he took it seriously enough or was transparent enough with the American people. She said she would most likely vote for Mr. Biden, her first time casting a Democratic ballot.

The revulsion against Mr. Trump’s performance extended well into his reliable base. One-third of the president’s supporters said they disapproved of his performance, including 11 percent who did so strongly. A modest but potentially significant 8 percent of people who backed him in the survey said the debate made them less likely to support Mr. Trump’s candidacy.

[pvn]

@MasterofthePwn

How did the journalist figure it out?

wasn’t it because she was with Trump in the morning but bailed on the bedminster trip?

[Riverman]

I think the best take on this is that extremely online types vastly under estimate how many people have their views of Trump filtered through local tv and print media that largely make Trump seem sane. Getting the unfiltered version is jolting for these folks.

[Danspartan]

A source that many suspect is Hope herself.

[LouisCyphre]

[ quote ] tags have to be on their own lines.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

Thanks, fixed.

[dlk9s]

I’ve been getting tons of texts from Democratic campaigns and various GOTV groups. Got this one today and thought her reply was cute:

[LikeClockwork]

Haha that’s awesome.

Also, I’m reporting you to the FBI for collusion with China.