I wrote in the hardcover edition of this book that every reelection is a referendum on the incumbent, and it’s true. Typically those referenda span a variety of the decisions and actions made by the incumbent: the quality of his leadership, the security of the country, the strength of the economy, and a host of smaller factors. If COVID had not entered the scene, the 2020 race would have been a referendum on Donald Trump’s corruption and failed leadership. Now that it has, the election of 2020 is about one thing, and one thing only. It is about Donald Trump’s mishandling of this crisis and the
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