As Donald Trump sulks, Joe Biden blows his chance

US President Donald Trump at a rally at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio on Tuesday. Picture: AFP

While his rhetoric depicts a big win, Donald Trump is campaigning for the November 3 US presidential election like a candidate who is in trouble.

The President talks up fraudulent voting and threatens to go to the courts if electoral officials dare suggest a majority of Americans have rejected him.

Trump was so eager to claim credit for recent sharemarket spikes that he ignored the obvious: if you own the up, you own the down.

When the markets refused to do what he told them to do, he grew angry and then sulked. Leaders don’t do that. If there is a problem, real leaders are so busy trying to fix it they have no time to sook like children.

Trump has done enough to lose a dozen presidential elections, so his defeat in November should be little more than a formality.

The fact that he is still in the race is a terrible indictment of the Democratic Party. How could this great party come up with an almost octogenarian candidate who can’t remember what room he is in?

With all the talent the Democrats had at their disposal they still managed to produce a Grade-A dud. Even if Joe Biden enters the Oval Office, it will be a narrow victory and he won’t bring with him a big Senate majority and a new slew of Democratic governors.

Joe Biden at an aluminium manufacturing facility in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Picture: AFP

Americans want inspiration. From this old fellow the best they will do is a big dose of constipation.

Trump’s supporters are the people Bruce Springsteen sings about. If fans of the rock star known as The Boss voted the way he urges them to, the Trump era would be over.

Trump promised to rejuvenate the rust-belt cities these people live in, but has failed dismally to honour that promise or to even attempt to follow through with it.

The Chinese have stolen a march on the Americans and Trump has done nothing but talk up US superiority.

I would love to see the steelworks in Newcastle and Port Kembla still turning out prime Australian steel.

Sadly, I also know such wishes are the dreams of the frustrated — they bring with them little hope of delivery.

Trump’s talk is cheap.