An Epically Bad Day for the Trump Campaign

Philip Bump: “I am substantially younger than these United States, but I am nonetheless at a loss to identify a worse day for a presidential campaign than Oct. 2, 2020, was for the reelection campaign of President Donald J. Trump.”

“The most immediate problem for Trump’s campaign is that the candidate himself has contracted covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus at the heart of the global pandemic… Trump’s illness means that he’ll be in isolation at the White House for the immediate term — and, therefore, not actively campaigning.”

“It gets worse for Trump’s campaign. After all, not only will the focus of the race be on the pandemic, but it will specifically be on Trump’s decision to repeatedly downplay the threat the virus poses as he pushed for America to return to normal.”