[Mick]

Texas had 9,239 new cases and 124 new deaths today.  We are quickly approaching the peak that Texas experienced in mid-July.\
Utah's "second wave" is much worse than it was in the summer.  There were nearly 3000 new cases, and 17 deaths (the average during the summer peak was 600 cases and 5 deaths).

The numbers in the swing states that went from Trump to Biden (Arizona (likely), Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania (almost certainly) and Georgia (likely)) are up significantly.  If some of those states wind up within a 1% margin, you have to wonder if a worsening pandemic made a difference.

BC

I think the worsening pandemic made a vast difference, between the economic meltdown caused by COVID and the deaths and illnesses created by COVID.  The American economy was roaring pre-pandemic and while Trump is personally disliked by most Americans, the vast majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck really like it when the paycheck arrives and even better when there's a little more in it.  That all changed, dramatically in March.  Trump should have been absolutely slaughtered at the ballot box.  I think most people realize that Trump is a lying huckster of an annoying NYC real estate billionaire, but they'll never meet him.  The economy was working well for them and it has started to recover well, though there are still nearly 22m people getting a government check.  By rights, Biden should have had 400+ electoral votes.  It should have been a Reagan/Mondale-style obliteration.  Instead, Trump nearly won.

Says a lot about what everyday Americans think of President Harris Biden (for now). And it will be great for the two of them. Like Obama, they can spend their entire first term (and half of his second term) blaming literally everything that goes wrong on the previous Republican president, and the Elites will parrot that line of thinking. Worked out perfectly for them

[Mick]

Texas had 9,239 new cases and 124 new deaths today.  We are quickly approaching the peak that Texas experienced in mid-July.\
Utah's "second wave" is much worse than it was in the summer.  There were nearly 3000 new cases, and 17 deaths (the average during the summer peak was 600 cases and 5 deaths).

The numbers in the swing states that went from Trump to Biden (Arizona (likely), Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania (almost certainly) and Georgia (likely)) are up significantly.  If some of those states wind up within a 1% margin, you have to wonder if a worsening pandemic made a difference.

BC

I think the worsening pandemic made a vast difference, between the economic meltdown caused by COVID and the deaths and illnesses created by COVID.  The American economy was roaring pre-pandemic and while Trump is personally disliked by most Americans, the vast majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck really like it when the paycheck arrives and even better when there's a little more in it.  That all changed, dramatically in March.  Trump should have been absolutely slaughtered at the ballot box.  I think most people realize that Trump is a lying huckster of an annoying NYC real estate billionaire, but they'll never meet him.  The economy was working well for them and it has started to recover well, though there are still nearly 22m people getting a government check.  By rights, Biden should have had 400+ electoral votes.  It should have been a Reagan/Mondale-style obliteration.  Instead, Trump nearly won.

Says a lot about what everyday Americans think of President Harris Biden (for now). And it will be great for the two of them. Like Obama, they can spend their entire first term (and half of his second term) blaming literally everything that goes wrong on the previous Republican president, and the Elites will parrot that line of thinking. Worked out perfectly for them