{"id":44674,"date":"2020-10-06T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44674"},"modified":"2020-10-06T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T22:12:33","slug":"whos-winning-whos-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44674","title":{"rendered":"Who’s winning? Who’s losing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On a day when Donald Trump decided to quit working with Democrats in Congress over a coronavirus relief package — sending the stock market straight into the dumper — Joe Biden delivered a high-minded speech about unity and our national soul on the site of a revered Civil War battlefield.<\/p>\n

One of these fellows is campaigning like a winner; the other is acting like an expected loser.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Who is whom?<\/p>\n

It looks to me as though Joe Biden’s decision today to speak to our nation’s better angels without once mentioning Donald Trump’s name is the winner here. Trump? Well, he’s looking more desperate with each passing day.<\/p>\n

Does this mean Biden should coast during the campaign’s final 28 days? Hardly. It means only that he took time today to forgo a partisan attack and sought instead to speak to our higher ideals.<\/p>\n

As for Trump, he wouldn’t know a higher ideal if it bit him on his ample backside. He has no view of what’s noble or good. He deals in invective and innuendo. He campaigned that way en route to victory in 2016 and has governed that way as president.<\/p>\n

Trump decided today that he wouldn’t negotiate with congressional Democrats to find a solution to a coronavirus relief bill; he will talk after the election, he said. To what end is this man refusing to talk to the “other party”?<\/p>\n

I cannot or will not predict this presages a Biden victory. Trump, after all, faced grim odds before heading down the stretch four years ago against Hillary Clinton … and then he won!<\/p>\n

Oh, but I do hope we are thrashing our way out of the darkness.<\/p>\n\n

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