Seven Major October Surprises Awaiting Democrats By Larry Schweikart

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Seven Major October Surprises Awaiting Democrats
By
Larry Schweikart -
August 3, 2020

In the past, the term “October Surprise” has almost always involved the Democrats turning up some last-minute dirt on a Republican. Perhaps the best-known of these was the revelation of a driving-while-under-the-influence charge (DWI) against Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush on Friday, November 3, 2000, a mere three days before the razor-thin 2000 election. Many political analysts think this cost Bush significant votes among evangelical Christians.

But the “October Surprise” of the 2016 campaign was close: a video from an “Access Hollywood” interview with Billy Bush came out on October 7, 2016, in which Trump made comments about what it was like to be a star in which he said that women fell all over him and “You can do anything . . . Grab them by the bleep. You can do anything.” Of course, Trump never said he did this, only that such was the situation with stars. (As a former rock drummer, I can attest to the general direction of President Trump’s comments!)

The 2016 October Surprise came out too early to affect the election other than, as pollster Richard Baris speculates, costing Trump two states—New Hampshire and Minnesota. (Baris maintains that the polling showed a V-shaped dip for about a week in early voting in Minnesota, for example, and it was enough to prevent Trump from winning the state). In our 2017 book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, Joel Pollak and I speculated that this October Surprise was really intended for release in the last week, but that the campaign of Hillary Clinton was spooked by a series of internal polls—one of which I saw as released by the Trump camp—that showed her slipping dangerously in even safe states such as Oregon and Rhode Island.

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

The Dems were sure surprised the day after the election in 2016 and will once again be drinking heavily the day after the election in 2020, and it won't be from champagne glasses celebrating./

[PeteS in CA]

From the OP article:

1) The Maxwell/Epstein documents. As I write this, already parts of the documents related to Jeffrey Epstein have revealed testimony that Bill Clinton was, er, “unsupervised” with at least one underage girl at Epstein’s “pedophile island.” Clinton, of course, denies it, but he’s all over those flight logs like spilled coffee. ...

2) The Durham/Barr probe. I remain skeptical that any indictments will come from this, but lately Attorney General William Barr has inched toward saying there would be movement, and before the election. Even if “big” names are not indicted (at first), this threatens to turn the entire “muh Russia” investigation on its head ...
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4) The riots. Yes, Virginia, there really are riots, they really do hurt people, they really do burn and destroy property, and they really are evil people, not “moms” and “vets.” (One video of the “vets” showed them unable to even perform a simple about-face. Yeah. “Vets.”) Despite a quarantine on all violent riot activity footage by Hoax News, it still seeps out. Barr’s agents have arrested and charged hundreds. ...
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6) The China Virus. ... According to focus groups, he is getting the FDR treatment so far by the voters, namely, he was handed a crap sandwich with the Virus and has done his best. Therefore, it seems that Trump can only be the beneficiary of any dramatic improvements in the China Virus environment between now and election day.

None of these is a Biden-Shattering Kaboom, but all are significant, and these seven, at least, tend toward Trump's favor.

However, IMO, the write-up for #6, "The China Virus" understates it in two ways. First, the Dems have made, "Trump did nothing for two months," one of their core campaign narratives. This is so false that just a decent partial listing of Trump Administration actions is overwhelming (BTDT, got closets full of T-shirts!). IOW, showing that narrative is false is easy. Second, the chances that at least one Covid-19 vaccine will be approved for use in October are very high, and of two more being approvable before year's end are at least high. Even if all three would not be approved until after Election Day, just the mere announcement of their imminent approval will largely negate the Dems' and MSM shills' "Trump did nothing for two months" campaign slogan.

[rustynail]

Seven is the lucky number so Nothing will surprise the Democrats in October.