Scare Tactics: Trump Focuses on Fear to Win

With 100 days to go before the election, Trump is focusing on “law and order” while Biden pitches stability.

TRAILING IN NATIONAL polls by 7-15 points. A persistent pandemic that not only presents a public health crisis, but prevents a crowd-loving candidate from holding big rallies. Double-digit unemployment, civil unrest and a revolt by some members of his own party who formed a SuperPAC to bring him down.

It’s not looking rosy for President Donald Trump as the campaign hits the 100 days-out from the election mark this weekend. And the president – who famously goes with his gut when making both policy and campaign decisions – appears poised to get socked in that very body part in the Nov. 3 election. Democrats waver between a giddily confident belief that they are in the final countdown to Trump’s demise and a worried memory of what happened the last time they underestimated Trump.

“I never say never in politics – (after) four years ago, I live by that rule,” says Stu Rothenberg, an independent political analyst and author of The Rothenberg Political Report. But Trump “has gotten himself into a deep hole, it seems to me. Continue reading.