{"id":43143,"date":"2020-06-13T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43143"},"modified":"2020-06-13T20:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T20:44:01","slug":"is-there-a-landslide-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43143","title":{"rendered":"Is there a landslide in the making?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/biden-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39261\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/biden-and-trump-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/biden-and-trump-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/biden-and-trump-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/biden-and-trump.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not predicting anything, but I do want to share an idle thought that crossed my mind on this sweltering North Texas day.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen a number of <em>reputable<\/em> public opinion polls that say the same thing: Joe Biden is well within striking distance of Donald Trump among Texans in the 2020 presidential election. A couple of these surveys have the former VP at a percentage point or perhaps two behind Trump. That is a statistical dead heat, a tie, it&#8217;s <em>anyone&#8217;s<\/em> race to win.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; here&#8217;s the deal. If Joe Biden picks off Texas, which hasn&#8217;t voted for a Democrat since 1976 when Jimmy Carter defeated President\u00a0 Gerald Ford, then we&#8217;re looking at a serious <em>landslide<\/em> victory for Joseph Biden Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s strategy? Campaign hard in Texas and he must remind Texans that Donald Trump is a pathological <em>liar<\/em> who doesn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s a** about them.<\/p>\n<p>Just thinking &#8212; and hoping &#8212; out loud. Be cool, man.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not predicting anything, but I do want to share an idle thought that crossed my mind on this sweltering North Texas day. I have seen a number of reputable public opinion polls that say the same thing: Joe Biden is well within striking distance of Donald Trump among Texans in the 2020 presidential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there a landslide in the making?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7225,1424,2505],"class_list":["post-43143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43145,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43143\/revisions\/43145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}