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With one day to go, this is what I’m worried about.

The so-called party of law and order should want a fair election. They don’t because it means Trump loses in a landslide.

George Evans-Jones
5 min readNov 1, 2020

I want to do a reverse Marco Rubio. In 2016 he was ridiculed for saying “it’s fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing”. Now, we’re in a completely different world. Whether it’s a failure to focus on his core economic message, a failure to frame his opponent, Joe Biden, or a failure to handle a deadly pandemic, it’s fiction that Donald Trump knows what he’s doing. He hasn’t got a clue. He scrapped to victory against a deeply unpopular Democrat, carrying 75 electoral college votes with an average winning margin of just 0.74%. The writing has been on the wall ever since.

During Donald Trump’s term, Democrats have won statewide elections in Kentucky and Virginia while picking up county-wide gains in Mississippi and Indiana. According to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average, Biden leads nationally by 8.5 points, and holds substantial leads in states needed to reach 270 electoral college votes. Joe Biden doesn’t worry me.

It is not just the head-to-head polling either, it’s the issues that voters care about. According to Fox News, not only do they trust Biden more to…

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George Evans-Jones
George Evans-Jones

Written by George Evans-Jones

Writing mostly on US politics from across the pond. Occasionally detour into sports/sport performance, and UK politics/culture.

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