This election was always going to be about COVID-19. We drift away from it when a news story breaks – when we mourn for RBG, when we are horrified watching the entire GOP upper echelon celebrating her conservative replacement in the White House Rose Garden, when we read a bombshell report about Trump’s long history of tax fraud and debts. But there is no getting away from the virus and so it was no surprise when the Rose Garden event turned out to be a super-spreader, infecting Trump and more than 20 GOP members of his inner circle. Trump himself is now the poster boy for the virus and what happens when you do not take it seriously. Coming on the heels of his disastrous debate performance, his poll numbers across the country began to crater.
We for whom 2016 is traumatic take nothing for granted and so we have no intention of letting up no matter what the polls say. Just as the 2018 midterm election blue wave was about healthcare, this year what will power blue wave 2.0 will be Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic. It didn’t have to be this way. So, when our Biden-Harris lawn signs finally arrived, the leadership team of East End Action Network (EEAN) came up with the idea of pairing them with a visual reminder of the consequences for Americans of Trump’s mismanagement of COVID/ [more]