Isn't it interesting how the two campaigns have kinda come down to two simple competing messages? Trump's is "Make America Great Again," meaning "Let's go back to a time when you were happier with your country!" Kamala's is "We're not going back!"
We seem to be talking a lot about crowd sizes these days and Trump's insistence that his are the biggest ever and hers are tiny. The New York Times sent a crew to head-count and take photos and their conclusion is that both candidates are drawing massive audiences to their rallies. Trump will probably claim they're lying and the photos are fake but that's his usual "anything that shows I'm wrong is phony" excuse.
He may be getting a bit of a bum rap with all this emphasis on how many walkouts he has at his rallies. According to the Times piece, he usually speaks for 90+ minutes, she speaks for 25 or so. Hey, any performer can have walkouts when he or she goes on too long. It would be a mistake to infer that those who leave a Trump rally before he's done don't like his politics and won't vote for him. They just think he doesn't know when to end a speech..and they're right.
As for the debate: I've said this here in a couple of ways…
It's gonna be up and down, up and down, up and down…with many moments which will, at least at first, feel like game-changers. We've already had plenty of these. Trump getting shot at was one. Biden doing so poorly in the debate was one. Biden dropping out was a big one. Trump getting convicted of 34 felonies was one. The big Supreme Court ruling was one. There will be more.
The debate was another. And none of those predictions we were hearing back in March or April anticipated any of them. Or those yet to come…