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Here’s Why There Will Be No ‘October Surprise’
Red State ^ | 09/13/2020 | Jeff Charles

Posted on 09/13/2020 8:15:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It’s September and election day is exactly 53 days away. President Trump, who is seeking re-election, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who is attempting to unseat him, are locked in a dead heat in the polls as they battle it out for the nation’s support.

Trump is up against not only Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), but he is also fighting a media apparatus that has been intent on destroying since he took office. The former vice president is attempting to make himself look more appealing to the American public despite his questionable record and apparent cognitive issues.

As the election season nears its conclusion, there seems to be only one major event that typically occurs around this time that many might expect to influence the outcome of the race. Yes, we are talking about the infamous “October Surprise.”

You know what this is, right? This political phenomenon typically takes the form of a tawdry, lascivious, or otherwise controversial revelation that is designed to cause irreversible damage to one of the candidates. In 2016, we saw this when the corporate media released the Access Hollywood tape in which then-candidate Trump was heard making lewd comments about women.

This tape was supposed to be a shocking discovery and surely not something the press had been sitting on for months and waiting to reveal at an opportune time. In this case, it didn’t work because Hillary Clinton was such a horrific candidate that not even this piece of new information could propel her to victory.

Yesterday, I asked my followers on Twitter what they thought the October surprise would be in the Trump v. Biden election. There were quite a few theories ranging from a mass shooting, to the release of the Russian pee tape, and even the leader of Antifa being revealed as none other than yours truly.

Each of these theories were quite interesting, except perhaps the notion that I’m the leader of Antifa. I am a patient man, but I can only handle a group of insufferable white progressives children for so long, folks. But the theory I found most compelling came from my friend and Black Roundtable co-host James Cheef:

 

No different than the June, July, August, and September surprises.

— JamesCheef (@JamesCheef) September 12, 2020

 

Anyone who has been following politics for awhile knows that 2020 is an election year that stands on its own. This means that the usual rules do not apply. Will the corporate media attempt to unleash another secret political nuclear weapon in the next few weeks?

Of course they will. They’ve gotten desperate. After all, didn’t they just attempt to use an unverified and hotly contested article claiming that Trump made disparaging remarks about fallen World War I vets? You can be certain that leftist journalists have already been assembling a new story, or perhaps series of stories, full of unnamed sources and tawdry allegations against the Trump administration. It will be fresh out of the oven shortly.

But as Cheef stated, it won’t be any different from what they have already been doing all year. Trump’s progressive opponents have already blown their shot, over and over again. From the Russiagate collusion hoax to the impeachment fiasco, they have pulled out all of the stops to smear the president and it hasn’t worked.

Put simply, unless the left manages to unveil actual evidence of an actual scandal the actually impacts the country, their efforts will amount to a whole lot of noise that is ultimately devoid of meaning. Like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the will not be taken seriously except by those who already want to buy what the corporate media is selling.

Of course, this does not automatically mean that Trump’s re-election is in the bag. It simply means that there is likely no October Surprise that has any chance of sinking his chances of victory.


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KEYWORDS: 2020; elections; octobersurprise
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To: SeekAndFind
The October surprise will be that Trump wants to kill Americans by releasing a defective vaccine, and the MSM will find he owns stock in one of the 8 companies that are developing vaccines.

The left and Kamela Harris have already started this claim, but the bad news is that the anti vax propaganda is being pushed by stealth on the right wing sites by the Russian propaganda information often cited by Q believers and now places like Lifesite and other conservative religious sites. Usually this is pushed with anti NWO propaganda, but in reality it is to delay the release of the vaccine so the Democrats can blame Trump.

Once Biden wins, he will produce a plan to save America (the new plan the same as Trumps of course...public health plans to develop and distribute vaccines are already there. Biden however will pretend they are his and steal the credit). And suddenly the MSM will praise him for his actions that saved the US from science hating despicables and Trump.

And Russia not only can get sanctions lifted, but they will have a diplomatic coup here in the third world by giving out their (untested) vaccine instead of the (well tested and safe) western vaccine. The western vaccines will be delayed and not available because the press and Dems delayed it's release.

41 posted on 09/14/2020 12:32:43 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: bagster

There is NOTHING coming, sad to say......but I PRAY YOU are RIGHT and I am WRONG!


42 posted on 09/14/2020 2:04:53 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Nice list....if ONLY we had an HONEST DOJ!!


43 posted on 09/14/2020 2:07:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: House Atreides

DJT won’t win one this year, at least not the ones he was nominated for this past week. The deadline is in February, for announcement in October


44 posted on 09/14/2020 2:29:22 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: softengine

Was the willie Horton ad run in October?


45 posted on 09/14/2020 3:20:01 AM PDT by teeman8r (Hidin' Biden will only bring out the beast in US.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The October surprise has been ongoing since President Donald Trump was nominated by the Republican party.


46 posted on 09/14/2020 3:50:00 AM PDT by MAAG (Tetelestai, paid in full. You are as righteous as God is. Double jeopardy is forbidden.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It may not be October yet but CBS is sure treating Woodward’s book like they believe it’s going to take Trump out. My Facebook feed is overrun with clips from 60 Minutes’ interview with Woodward.


47 posted on 09/14/2020 3:56:38 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: bagster
Nothing can stop what is coming.

~Ron Jeremy

48 posted on 09/14/2020 5:09:51 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden will be photographed walking off a stage after soiling his pants and it will be blamed on Trump.


49 posted on 09/14/2020 5:09:51 AM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Here’s Why There Will Be No ‘October Surprise’

That Depends™

50 posted on 09/14/2020 5:14:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

We act like the RATs are the only ones who play the October Surprise card. With the former feckless and milquetoast GOP candidates, that might have been true. With Trump, though, he might have a few tricks up his sleeve, and the October Surprise might be compliments of PDJT.


51 posted on 09/14/2020 5:19:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Disappointment is inevitable. Discouragement is a choice.)
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To: bagster

From your lips to God’s ears my friend.


52 posted on 09/14/2020 5:20:40 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Revel

For three years we’ve heard hints that justice will be done to those guilty of crimes of treason. From Obama to Hillary to Comey to Strzok.. Not only is there no law, order and justice for the thugs on the streets, the same is true for those guilty of the highest crimes. Our once great nation is doomed. Every man for himself.


53 posted on 09/14/2020 5:23:01 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Saudi/Israel Peace Accords. We are rolling up to it.

It should be the story of the year. The only thing we will hear is Kashogi and Covid. It’s a shame.


54 posted on 09/14/2020 5:46:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
Lee Atwater, we need you
55 posted on 09/14/2020 6:01:36 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: MplsSteve

“That will play well with his base but for any voters out there in the middle concerned about civil unrest, he didn’t do much to reassure them.”

You’ve put your finger on the Democrats’ weakness:

Their “base” is composed of life-long Democrats - but not just any life-long Democrats. These are the ones remaining despite being told nothing but lies for decades. And not even very convincing lies.

Think of the steady diet of bullshit these people (their base) are fed over at ABCNNBCBS. Do you know anyone else dumb enough to believe any of it? Would your three year old grandchild believe it? Would your cat fall for it?

I think the Democrat base is what remains after normal people with even a smidgeon of intellectual honesty and curiosity got tired of being lied to and taken for granted. Their “base” is the dregs of the dregs. Their “base” is composed of people who are at the same time foolish, blind, stubborn, and shameless in their willingness to defend the indefensible, and hate Trump at all cost.

I realize there are ntelligent Democrats who remain in the party and still call themselves Democrats. But they do not constitute the “base”, and they know when they are being lied to. They are not going to blindly vote Democrat.

My point is that, truth be told, the Democrat Party is offering up a giant turd in 2020. There is no way to argue rationally and honestly that Joe Biden should be President. There is no way to argue rationally and honestly that President Trump should not be re-elected.

So, other than their deluded and dishonest “base“, who will vote Democrat?

How are they going to expand their base?

Is It possible to imagine there being anyone who currently sees through the Democrat and fake news lies, but who in the next eight weeks will come to believe them?

I highly doubt it. Their lies have become so blatant and bald-faced that it is highly unlikely they will win any new converts - the only ones stupid enough to are already in their “base”.


56 posted on 09/14/2020 6:02:55 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: SeekAndFind

The October surprise could be a Biden meltdown on the campaign trail so obviously revealing his dementia that the DNC will have to remove him as a candidate.


57 posted on 09/14/2020 9:02:27 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Peter ODonnell

this, I expect

...and, if/when it comes, it will make the current “crisis” appear to look like childs play

it is the only thing the leftists have thrown out that has “harmed” POTUS thus far...expect them to go back to the well for another try..


58 posted on 09/14/2020 9:05:34 AM PDT by QualityMan ( Mr. President, we have your back.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Not just sniffing:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4860460/user-clip-joe-biden-steve-daines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAUOurZIVfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5NJZMDumY&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWAu7LwkmRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q&t=83s


59 posted on 09/14/2020 9:46:12 AM PDT by TwoSue
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To: Lurkinanloomin
As well as half of the elected GOP.................

Many of whom thought it was their turn...they hate that Trump did not pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn!

60 posted on 09/14/2020 10:42:41 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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