With less than 80 days to go in the most consequential election in the majority of our lifetimes, the presidential contest field is now set. …
With less than 80 days to go in the most consequential election in the majority of our lifetimes, the presidential contest field is now set. It’s President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence against former Vice President Joe Biden and, his choice for the job he once held, U. S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California. Whether you agree or disagree with the president, there is one statement he has made that all agree with since it was clear Biden had emerged from a crowded Democratic primary field: The choice for the next president of the United States could not be more drastically different. Detractors of the president cannot deny his reality TV gift for theater. From the very moment he and Melania Trump descended the escalator in June 2015 in Trump Tower, to the packed pre-pandemic MAGA rallies he staged across this nation, Trump has shown he knows how to put on a show. Irrespective of whether you believe or embrace what he says in those shows, that’s just the truth. Although he claimed not to watch the Biden-Harris announcement (which is kind of hard to believe given his admitted proclivity for monitoring TV daily, but I take him at his word), even he would have to admit the first appearance of his opponents together Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware, was as well orchestrated as possible in this COVID environment.
