US elections: Trump and Biden’s anxiety and concern

Of: Johan edgar

Published: October 25, 2020 at 01.01
Updated: October 25, 2020 at 01.27

Outwardly, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden appear victorious.

But below the surface there is anxiety and worry.

Democrats are terrified that ghost voters from the last election will spoil the long-awaited victory.

And in the White House, people are worried about what will happen after the expected loss, writes Politico.

After the final debate in Nashville, the staff of both candidates breathed a sigh of relief. Donald Trump managed, with the help of the muted microphone, to come together and be more disciplined.

– Why didn’t you do that in the previous debate? an employee of Trump’s staff tells Politico.

Joe Biden’s associates, on the other hand, were happy that their candidate appeared stable and didn’t make one of his misstatements that makes him look as old as Trump’s mockery.

Both Trump and Biden seemed to think victory was within their grasp.

But in their general staff and among party representatives, anxiety and fear of losing seem greater than the certainty of victory.

The closer the election gets, with Joe Biden’s leadership in most waveguide states holding steady, Democrats are now beginning to believe that he can actually win.

Photo: Andrew Harnik / AP

Democrats are beginning to believe that Biden can really win.

Fear of ghost gatherers

Even if they don’t want to say it out loud.

“Every time I get too happy, I have to put on an ear file and put my hand on the fire,” Missouri House of Representatives member Emanuel Cleaver told Politico.

– I’m ridiculously nervous. I read opinion polls. But I am afraid to believe in the gains because we saw what happened in 2016.

Four years ago, everyone except possibly Donald Trump was confident that Hillary Clinton would win the election after having a reassuring lead in most waveguide states. But on Election Day, crowds of “ghost voters” turned up, invisible groups of voters that none of the polling stations had managed to capture.

And Trump took home the victory, despite Clinton receiving the most votes nationally.

– I’m just trying to remember how confident I was in 2016 and avoid going back there. There are many reasons to believe that this time it will be different. But I’m nervous, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tells the political site.

Refuses to uncover Trump

Others have even more scars than that. Democrat Henry Cuellar, a representative from Texas, was in New York in 2016 for an imaginary celebration of Hillary Clinton’s grand victory on Election Night. Now he doesn’t dare to expect anything yet.

– You can never calculate Trump, affirms for Politico.

But it appears that most of the president’s own staff have already done so, according to another Politico article. As more and more people close to Donald Trump have adjusted to the losses, concerns about their future careers are beginning to take hold.

And then they want the blame for the failed election campaign to end elsewhere, Politico writes, referring to a dozen sources within the staff and other officials within the party.

Trump’s inner core insists the president still has a realistic chance of going all the way. But sources on staff say paranoia has settled among employees and there is great fear that debt attacks will hit them after the election.

Saws zombie tactics

Much of the blame from within now rests with former campaign manager Brad Parscale, who had to step down in July. Some employees believe that he made a real mistake in the tactics to be used against Joe Biden. By the theory, by portraying the former vice president as an insane and confused zombie, many older supporters were lost.

– He hardly knows he is alive, it is a recurring accusation that Trump has leveled at Biden.

Brad Parscale is also accused of wasting a large chunk of the campaign fund unnecessarily at outrageous costs that didn’t give much in return. An example is a large Trump banner that flew over beaches in waveguide states. Another is that tens of millions of crowns were spent on television advertising at the beginning of the crown pandemic when people were thinking of something else, Politico writes.

When Bill Stepien took over as campaign manager, there was hardly any money left in the coffin and Trump has been forced to spend significant hours during the final battle to host donor events, according to critics.

However, defenders of Parscale say it was Trump’s own idea to portray Biden as insane and that the staff had to make the best of the situation. They also believe that the image of the money flowing from the campaign is exaggerated.

Criticism of the chief of staff

Some blame Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. He is criticized for handling the corona pandemic and the president’s own illness. Meadows is also criticized for not being better at keeping Donald Trump at bay.

Among other things, he is accused of allowing author and journalist Bob Woodward to be so close to Trump. Trump revealed to Woodward early in the pandemic that Covid-19 was a serious disease and that he deliberately downplayed risks in public so as not to create panic.

Over the past week, many Trump staff members have viewed with disapproval all the gunpowder that is placed on Joe Biden’s son Hunter during the president’s election rallies and what he communicates to his followers on Twitter.

“The job of the president in the last ten days before the election is to convince voters that Joe Biden would destroy American industries, increase the membership of the Supreme Court and force small businesses to close again because of the crown. “a Trump campaign adviser told Politico.

– He shoots himself in the foot with everything around Hunter Biden and has to stop.

Published: October 25, 2020 at 01.01