Donald Trump’s popularity continues to rise despite the negative media
If we take a check on the current state of play in the US election, we’ll see that, despite all the ‘embarrassing stuff’ floating around about US President Donald Trump, he happens to be coasting along, while the other candidates are flailing, writes Tim Blair.
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Let’s check the current state of play in the US election.
Leading Democrat contender and brave Native-American warrior from the fearsome Makingitup tribe Elizabeth Warren last week fired her national organising director Rich McDaniel following “multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behaviour”.
No details have been revealed, but considering McDaniel is black we should probably just assume the Warren campaign is racist.
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That’s the way it would work if Warren was a Republican, anyway.
Socialist hero Bernie Sanders emerged a few days ago from hospital after suffering a heart attack. The 78-year-old said he was “feeling much better” following treatment.
The senator’s recovery will likely be aided by his lifelong antipathy to overexertion. In 1971, Sanders was asked to leave a hippy commune for “sitting around and talking” instead of doing any work.
Still, heart attack and all, the world’s laziest hippy is doing better than former frontrunner Joe Biden.
The ex-vice president’s fundraising dropped to just $15.2 million during the past three months, around $10 million down on Sanders’ total.
Looks like his kid will need another $50,000 per month job in the Ukraine just to keep Biden afloat.
Even outsider Pete Buttigieg is pulling in more cash than is Broken Joe, courtesy of Los Angeles fundraisers attended by the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Paris Hilton, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.
Surrounding yourself with showbiz riffraff is a guaranteed ticket to US election success. Just ask celebrity-besotted Hillary Clinton (who, as more than a few people are now pointing out, may be planning a late entry in the 2020 race).
Drive around the trendier parts of Texan cities and you’ll see yard signs supporting Beto O’Rourke, a fourth-generation Irish-American who conceals his white embarrassment behind a Hispanic nickname.
Robert Francis O’Rourke is trying to take his local popularity national but his support is stuck in single digits.
Having earlier posted video of himself getting a haircut, going to the dentist and changing a tyre, O’Rourke’s latest online stunt involved receiving a flu jab.
Big mistake. The video exposed O’Rourke’s pale and weedy noodle arms, provoking nationwide mockery.
The solitary former Goth in the field, Andrew Yang, probably picked up a few of O’Rourke’s fans with his own video demonstrating impressive skateboard skills.
These six chuckleheads, plus an additional six, will do battle on October 15 in the fourth Democrat debate.
The only reason to tune in, besides betting on which parts of Joe Biden fall off, is to see Hawaiian wildcard Tulsi Gabbard demolish somebody.
Gabbard knows she can’t win and seems determined to take down her rival candidates along the way.
Donald Trump is meanwhile coasting along, much to the bewilderment of his ideological foes.
“No matter where you turn, the news is filled with embarrassing stuff about President Trump,” wrote CNBC’s Jake Novak last week.
“The CIA whistleblower complaint about his conduct on a call with Ukraine’s president has turned into a full-court impeachment scandal.
“But through all of this, Trump’s approval rating is at its highest level of the year … how is this possible?”
The Trump-loathing US press are no closer to working this out than they were three years ago. Please, nobody give them any hints.