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The Bob Cesca Podcast Sums Up the Week: One Term Loser

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Targetpractice7/12/2020 9:43:40 am PDT

re: #337 Decatur Deb

We have disadvantages we didn’t face in 2016 as well. The opponent can spin up an hour of free live TV on a moment’s notice. He can fly to pseudo-official campaign events at our expense, and no one is at all concerned that he uses the federal workforce as apparatchiks and props.

It is always cheaper and easier to prevent an incumbent than to dislodge one.

These disadvantages are not as daunting or as powerful as they seem at a glance. If anything, his substitution of press “briefings” for his rallies worked against him (see: bleach injections). And as we saw yesterday, even when he flies off to do “tours,” he ends up drawing more criticism for his cavalier attitude towards public safety than he once did. As for the use of federal workers as props, even that is counterbalanced by his relentless attacks on any who do not show absolute loyalty to him.

Even his previous big advantage, namely his reliance upon “huge” public rallies to fire up his base, got doused pretty thoroughly in Tulsa. He’s now afraid to venture to anywhere that he isn’t guaranteed a packed house full of sycophants.