{"id":44888,"date":"2020-10-25T18:42:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44888"},"modified":"2020-10-25T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:42:51","slug":"down-the-stretch-they-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44888","title":{"rendered":"Down the stretch they go!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%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\/10\/Trump-Biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44862\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Trump-Biden-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Trump-Biden-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Trump-Biden-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Trump-Biden.jpg 970w\" 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>As long as the media keep reporting on the &#8220;horse race&#8221; aspect of the 2020 presidential campaign, I suppose it&#8217;s fitting now to note that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are heading down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Did anything change substantively from their second and final joint appearance? It appears, um &#8230; no!<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s lead remains steady if not overwhelming. Trump is trying to find a new path to the 270 electoral votes he needs to win re-election. Biden is taking his talking points this week &#8212; get this &#8212; to Georgia! Biden thinks he has a chance to capture that Deep South bastion of Republican politics. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>I remain hopeful &#8212; but I am leery &#8212; that Biden can pull this off, that he can banish Trump from the White House and that he can restore our national &#8220;soul,&#8221; which was his initial campaign message when he jumped into this contest.<\/p>\n<p>My hope cannot wipe away the memory of what happened in 2016. Hillary Clinton led Trump down the stretch, too. Then she &#8212; and the rest of us &#8212; got the surprise of our political lives when Trump cobbled together an electoral majority to win!<\/p>\n<p>He ran four years ago as an outsider vowing to shake things up. Well, he has shaken things up, all right. Now he is the ultimate insider.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we have that pandemic that he ignored and the economic revival he inherited has collapsed as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Stay busy, Joe Biden. Your work ain&#8217;t done yet.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%40JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%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 As long as the media keep reporting on the &#8220;horse race&#8221; aspect of the 2020 presidential campaign, I suppose it&#8217;s fitting now to note that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are heading down the stretch. Did anything change substantively from their second and final joint appearance? It appears, um &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down the stretch they go!<\/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":[7225,1424,1515,2505,9261],"class_list":["post-44888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-joe-biden","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888","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=44888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44889,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44888\/revisions\/44889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}