In an October filled with surprises, can President Trump still win?
By Andrew Malcolm Special to McClatchy
October 06, 2020 06:00 AM
It didn’t take long for this election’s first official October surprise to occur. Less than 22 hours into the new month, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and his wife, Melania, had tested positive for COVID-19.
That came just five days after a late September surprise, publication of a newspaper report with private details from Trump’s income taxes, showing that he avoided paying large sums of income taxes in recent years, legally but politically damaging nonetheless.
Who illegally released private IRS tax records remains an unanswered question. But just hours later, if you can believe it, Democrats were running TV ads about it.
Before that came a videotape with former Vice President Joe Biden appearing to call members of the military “stupid bastards.â€
And you can pretty much count on more such attempts to influence the November presidential election’s outcome, although the sources will likely be masked to make verification difficult.
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