Why Biden could lose to Trump

Update (June 2020): I really hope I’m wrong. I mention the coronavirus below but the true scale of it is now obvious and Trump’s inept handling could change everything as could an economy in freefall. Also, I didn’t foresee Trump recommending people to drink bleach.

From time to time many of us think, how on earth did Donald Trump become the President of the United States? A major reason was that the Democrats chose a nominee who was one of the few candidates that could lose to Trump.

And they’re about to do it again.

“I’m with her”. That always worried me. Few of us really thought Donald Trump would be elected president but that slogan, from the Hilary Clinton campaign, always seemed a terrible idea and indicative of a campaign with a fundamentally poor strategy. Many voters wanted Clinton as president and of course, finally, to have the first female president. But what about voters who had bigger concerns than who got to make history and move into the White House?

“Who’s with me?”, is surely the natural reaction to that slogan? Aren’t elections about the voters? Trump won through a lot of things, some of them pretty awful such as blatant racism and a media that would never call him out on that racism or the multitude of lies he told. But he gave false hope to a crucial group of voters; desperate people who were…