With just over a week to go until the Election the news on Monday will likely continue to be dominated with the FBI Probe that has absolutely no way of resolving itself before Americans cast their votes. This week will also likely be the final week of sampling for most of the major polls which will likely publish their final predictions on Thursday or Friday which will likely show Trump slightly up from last time. Giving Americans the Weekend to mull over the choice they have to make the following Tuesday. I don’t like the idea of Trump ending the last week of the Campaign on a good note.
I don’t like it one bit and to be honest, I am a little weirded out by the fact that this is even happening.
Normally whenever something negative comes out that could hurt Secretary Clinton’s chances of winning the Election, Donald Trump ends up doing something incredibly stupid and the focus quickly shifts from Clinton back to Trump and the dumb thing he just did. So where is he?
Has The Donald finally learned restraint? Has he finally figured out that the best political play when your opponent has a bad day is to shut the hell up and let them stew in it?
I mean sure he had his little giddy moment of self-congratulations on Friday when the news of MORE e-mails first broke. But since then he hasn’t really done or said anything. And that is scary. That is out of character for Donald Trump. By this point, he should have insinuated that Huma and Hillary were lesbian lovers or something. So what gives?
Odds are he’s tied up with his mouth taped shut in some brass-painted highrise.
So my question is, is this how the campaign season ends? With Donald Trump doing a very premature victory dance despite still being behind in the polls and likely losing the Electoral College by a wide margin? Or worse with Hillary barely squeaking by because of this newest probably nothing scandal?
Or does Hillary Clinton have a card up here sleeve? Something that she's been saving for the final week of the campaign. The final nail in the Trump coffin? Things have been so (relatively) quiet since the final debate and this new e-mails revelation is exactly the kind of the story the media has been lacking in the lead up to the Election. The stories about “How big will Hillary win?” were starting to get stale so the media was ready to latch onto anything else newsworthy to come out.
Did/Does Clinton have a plan for this final week or was her strategy really to just coast to Election Day? I feel like there has to be something her campaign has on Trump but she hasn’t used yet because she hasn’t needed too. But this is the final week. The home stretch. This is the time to unveil whatever October Surprise she might have on deck.
Thinking about the narrative the Clinton Campaign has been weaving since the beginning I can’t help but think there has to be something. With the Miss Universe thing, the campaign primed the American people for the Access Hollywood tape. The narrative that Trump doesn’t respect woman instantly went from, Trump disrespecting specific woman to basically the entire gender.
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Maybe another tape, this time from any of the many many television programs Mr. Trump has appeared on over the years featuring The Donald doing or saying something that makes the Access Hollywood tape look like “locker room talk.”
The Trump-Putin connection has been teased throughout the campaign with Trump on David Letterman claiming he met Putin “Once” to Trump tweeting maybe him and Putin will become “Best Friends” to outright denying he has ever met the man and at one point claiming to not know who Putin is. Once again the public is primed for the big reveal. But is there one coming?
Maybe video footage of Trump meeting Putin in 2013 when the Miss Universe Pagent was held in Moscow. Maybe Trump and Putin meeting in New York when Putin visited for a United Nations event and met with President Obama? Proof that Trump lied about his relationship with Putin would certainly put this thing to bed.
The thing with Donald Trump is that there is no end to the possibilities. By Friday we could learn that he has an illegitimate son that looks and sounds almost comically like Donald Trump but has been completely neglected and swept under the rug. A video could surface of Donald Trump snorting coke off of a portrait of himself. It could come out that his entire cleaning staff is made up of undocumented immigrants. There could be a video of Trump using the N word a dozen times in a conversation. Hell, a woman could come forward with Anthony Weiner-like photos sent to her via @RealDonaldTrump and as a result by Election Day everyone on the planet will be blind.
There really is no telling what is out there, if anything at all. But I certainly hope there is. This long slog of a campaign cannot end on a hopeful note for Trump and with the Clinton Campaign completely blindsided. That is not okay. We need Trump to be buried on Election Day.
Here’s hoping the future President Clinton still has a card up her sleeve. And that she plays it in the next day or two.