Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

How Is Trump's Campaign Strategy Going?

With three weeks until the election, the president is blurting out obscurities and non sequiturs.

October 14, 2020 at 11:45 AM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Sound and fury.
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It’s quite an accomplishment for an incumbent president to be losing in head-to-head polling tests by 10.5 percentage points with just three weeks until the election. In fact, as CNN’s Harry Enten notes, Trump is in the worst shape an incumbent has been in at this point in the polling era. Trump could still win, but it’s increasingly unlikely.