This last week we dipped into the last three months of the official campaign. With less than 90 days to the election, Trump continues to plummet in the polls, and states that shouldn’t be close are now considered toss-up states, such as Texas and Iowa. Biden is even within five points of Trump in South Carolina, according to MSNBC. There is a palpable sense of desperation within the Trump campaign.

Politico has an article out detailing the new reality and the GOP response, including whether to focus more upon the senate and the house and away from Trump:

Several current and former senior administration officials said they feel the White House is obsessed with the president’s image at the expense of making meaningful policy decisions — on either fighting the virus or successfully working with Congress to pass another stimulus bill.

“They are so concerned with the optics right now, but where is the substance these days?” said one former senior administration official. “Who is working on the policy ideas we will tackle in the second term? Instead, we are too busy worrying about the messaging.”

Yeah, whoever thought of “doing a good job” as being the best campaign strategy, anyway. The truly scary thing is that Trump probably could have sealed away his victory with a decisive and functioning COVID plan early on. Unfortunately for too many dead Americans, he did not.

Now many Republicans are putting their energy elsewhere:

Some outside conservative groups and donors are increasingly turning their attention and money away from Trump and toward maintaining Republican control of the Senate. But longtime operatives say it will be impossible to divorce Trump’s policies, proclamations and tweets from the fate of Republican senators, several of whom now occupy vulnerable seats in Colorado, Maine, and Iowa.

“Back in the winter and spring, donors poured everything into Trump,” said a second Republican close to the White House. “But now all they are thinking about is the Senate. The Senate is the Alamo right now.”

The only Republican living a separate existence from Trump is Mitt Romney, other than him, they are all married to Trump and all deserve the exact same fate. It is wonderful to consider them panicking as it slips away.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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