It's not surprising that we don't know much about what's up with Donald Trump's health. It's a little surprising that the various folks authorized to discuss it don't seem to be talking about the same patient. I flipped by all the news channels this morning and on each, I saw the news channel's medical authority speaking about confusing and contradictory information as if that was not to be expected of this administration.
We're also getting very good poll numbers for Biden this morning including the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll which has the Biden-Harris parlay fourteen (that's 14) points ahead of Trump-Pence. This is a poll taken after the September 29 debate — the one Trump insists he "won easily" — but before the COVID news about the president and the first lady.
A friend of mine who lives in terror of four more years of Trump is still nervous and keeps saying, "Hillary was ahead and look what happened." Until the vote is finalized and unquestioned, which could be some time, he's going to be trembling on the window ledge despite me reminding him that she wasn't ahead by anywhere near this much and also that people weren't already voting in such numbers this far before the 2016 election.
But I know why he frets. We have not had four years of Normal in this country and right now, there's a wholly-unexpected turn of events every two or three days. So far, none of them seem to have impacted the voting margins but they are getting weirder and weirder. I think I'd like to see Joe Biden make a commercial that went something like this…
I'm promising you something Donald Trump can never give you. I'm promising you we'll work towards normality. You haven't seen much of it under Trump. Every few days, you find that some part of your life is missing. Your freedom to go out and socialize with your friends is gone. The place where you work is closed. A friend or loved one is deathly ill. The security of your health insurance is in jeopardy. Your kids can't go to school. If you have investments, they're going up and down like they were on Space Mountain at Disneyland — a place which, by the way, is also closed. Even if you like some of what Donald Trump claims he wants to do to this country, you have to be sick of it not happening and all these unexpected things taking its place. Elect me and while I can't make it happen right away, there will come a morning when you won't have to wake up and ask, "What the hell has happened today?"
Well, something like that. I'd sure like it like that.