“Had you told us, at the beginning of the week, that Joe Biden would travel to Kenosha, Wis., and that the coronavirus would remain a backburner issue on the campaign trail, we would have concluded that this would have been a good week for President Trump. Instead, it’s been a brutal one for Trump — now 60 days out until the election.”
“Poll after poll showed Biden ahead nationally and in the key battlegrounds, all conducted after the Republican convention and the GOP’s ‘law and order’ focus. Poll after poll found Trump losing the message battle on law/order/safety. After Trump’s continued warnings about voter fraud in 2020, he was the one who appeared to urge his supporters to vote twice in the election. And then Thursday night — right before the Labor Day weekend — came Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article revealing that the president has disparaged fallen military service-members, according to anonymous sources with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s rhetoric.(Trump and his White House have denied the accusations.) Trump and his team have spent so much energy and so much time trying to shift the focus and rhetoric of the 2020 campaign. But what do they have to show for it? Answer: a pretty rough week” – NBC News.