Lemire: Trump’s Reassuring Allies There’s ‘Plenty of Time’ for the Election to Turn Around

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LEMIRE: "The President, Joe, has been telling people for weeks now to try to reassure allies that he has plenty of time, that it’s still early. He points to Election Day being three months away. He calls back to 2016, how there were these late breaking events, particularly the James Comey letter, that shifted things his way in the stretch run. And his aides have been trying to tell him for a while now, it seems like perhaps just in the last week and a half or so they have been able to get it through, this is a very different race, 2020. First of all, any election is a snapshot in time. People vote when they vote, whether it’s Election Day or early. And we’ll see this year a historic surge in early voting, in part fueled by the pandemic where people are not going to feel safe traveling to the physical ballot box and they’ll mail out their ballots ahead of time. North Carolina, which is a key battleground state, that begins in a month and several others begin soon thereafter. So even if there were to be an October surprise, a reversal of fortune for the president, let's say in October, in the stretch run, millions upon millions of ballots will have already been cast. So they had a pause in advertising for several days to try to reassess message and strategy. They’re going back up on the air today, Monday, focusing on the attack that Joe Biden is under the control of the left-wing elements of his party."