GRAHAM SLAUGHTER
FOUR years ago, Donald Trump was having a bad week in the polls. One survey suggested that most Americans feared him becoming president. Another suggested that 60 per cent of registered voters said he doesn’t respect “ordinary Americans.” In the national horse race, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was leading in almost every poll.
Fast forward to today, and polls once again suggest Trump is the underdog. But, as the old saying goes, a week is a lifetime in politics, and Trump has a track record of defying pollsters and writing his own political playbook.
And yet, 2020 is not 2016, and the U.S. is in a radically different place than it was four years ago. The pandemic, ongoing unrest over police violence against Black Americans and the possibility of a conservative-majority Supreme Court have made this race one like no other.
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