{"id":44588,"date":"2020-10-01T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44588"},"modified":"2020-10-01T00:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:02:27","slug":"trump-cannot-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44588","title":{"rendered":"Trump cannot recover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44589\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biden-and-Trump-debate.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>First-debate performances have been a curse occasionally for presidents seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s astonishing display of boorishness Tuesday night, though, might produce an insurmountable obstacle for this president. I want to revisit two recent examples of first-debate stumbles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1984, President Reagan stumbled, bumbled and mumbled his way through a joint appearance with Democratic challenger Walter Mondale; many observers wondered whether Reagan had &#8220;lost it.&#8221; The two men came back at the next debate and the president was asked whether he was up to the job of president. He responded that &#8220;I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent&#8217;s youth and inexperience.&#8221; He brought the house down &#8230; and then won re-election in a 49-state landslide.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, President Obama was facing a tough fight against Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The candidates faced off in a debate. Obama was clumsy, off his game, offering muted responses to questions. Romney essentially wiped the floor with Obama. They returned a few days later and Obama recovered his voice and thumped Romney. Obama then was re-elected with a handsome majority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now I ask: Is there any way that Donald Trump can recover from what&#8217;s been called a &#8220;sh** show&#8221; this week? I do not know how he does.<\/p>\n<p>Trump won&#8217;t listen to advice. He doesn&#8217;t accept the wisdom of others with actual knowledge of pertinent matters.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, given the astonishingly graphic nature of his behavior Tuesday night, it boggles my mind to understand how he steps across that behavior to make Americans forget about what they <em>witnessed in real time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We all saw what I consider to be the most shameful incident ever put on by a president of the United States. He has demonstrated once and for all that he is an embarrassment to the country he was elected to govern.<\/p>\n<p>He told white supremacists to &#8220;stand by&#8221; while we count the ballots; he mocked his opponent for wearing a mask in the middle of a killer pandemic; Trump told lie after freaking lie on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>How does he recover from that? In my humble view, <em>he doesn&#8217;t &#8230; a<\/em>nd that&#8217;s a good thing for the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%40realDonaldTrump%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com First-debate performances have been a curse occasionally for presidents seeking re-election. Donald Trump&#8217;s astonishing display of boorishness Tuesday night, though, might produce an insurmountable obstacle for this president. I want to revisit two recent examples of first-debate stumbles. In 1984, President Reagan stumbled, bumbled and mumbled his way through a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump cannot recover<\/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":[13],"tags":[9516,1424,2505],"class_list":["post-44588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-biden-trump-debate","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44588","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=44588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44591,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44588\/revisions\/44591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}