Five Things Trump Needs to Do Tonight
Notice how we haven't heard a peep from the mainstream media lately about Joe Biden pulling away in the polls. Not a whisper. That's because the opposite is true.
Two weeks
ago, Democrats were gloating and fist-bumping. Today, the cat has their
collective tongues. Poll
after poll
after poll,
including three of the most accurate ones from 2016, show President Donald
Trump has closed the gap dramatically in the homestretch. IBD/TIPP, which
was the nation's most accurate poll in 2004, 2008, and 2012 (and nearly so in
2016), has Biden leading by a paltry 1.8 points.
And with a colossal scandal blowing up around Biden despite the
media's best efforts to censor it — a scandal involving influence
peddling, money laundering,
and child
pornography — momentum is clearly and unequivocally on Trump's side.
Trump-deranged
media outlets saw this happen in 2016, and now — Mother Earth help us!
— they see it happening again.
So what does
President Trump needs to do during tonight's final debate from Belmont
University in Nashville? Yesterday, we covered some specific things regarding the debate topics of
fighting COVID-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national
security, and leadership. But here are five more general strategies:
First, the
president needs to continuously
pound his powerful economic message of deregulation, job growth, and
prosperity across all demographics, contrasting that with Biden's ruinous plans. The American people vote with their
pocketbooks. Remember: With this election, as with every other presidential
election, It's the economy, stupid.
Second, the
Left wants this to be a COVID referendum, so he needs to clearly and concisely
refute the Left's coronavirus narrative, which accuses him of abject failure
when in fact our nation's performance is on par with most major European
countries. As Victor Davis Hanson writes
in National Review, "The U.S. leads the world in finding effective
drug protocols and vaccinations that will eventually conquer the virus. No one
believes data from China, India, or Russia. His argument that seven months of
lockdowns now are doing more cumulative damage to the health and lives of
Americans than the virus is increasingly undeniable." Acknowledge the
awfulness of 220,000 dead, but stress that we're getting smarter and stronger
every day.
Third, he
needs to remember that the details of the Hunter Biden scandal will take care
of themselves if he simply pounds some high-level points rather than getting
stuck in the weeds. The still-persuadables don't care about complex
transactions in Ukraine and China, but they do care about words like corruption,
influence-peddling, money laundering, and child
pornography. Drop a few stink bombs at Biden's feet, challenge him
to respond, and demand his media bodyguards do their jobs. And then move on.
Fourth, he
has to avoid, at all costs, being seen as unduly hostile toward debate
moderator Kristen Welker. True enough, the Debate Commission is rotten and Welker is another
partisan Democrat, but the president needs to close the gap with suburban
women, and he won't do it if he's seen as boorish and bullying toward her.
Working the refs is fine, even recommended. Punching them isn't.
Fifth, he
needs to be forceful and aggressive throughout, but without being obnoxious. As
Hanson continues, "The nonstop advice that Trump is receiving, often from
the very swing voters he needs to win over, is sound — be aggressive in
pressing Biden for answers without being interruptive or rude; smile and relax;
don't grimace, eye roll, or scowl. Trump knows what he must do because he did it
well enough in the town hall, and saw Vice President Pence do it effectively
against Kamala Harris."
In closing, he'll help his cause if he simply reminds us that he's done more for our country in 47 months than Joe Biden has done in 47 years and if he tells us how eager he is to get back to work on Making America Great Again.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)
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