Rachel Bitecofer electoral college evaluation: Biden 289-Trump 181!

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37. Yes, but factor in that COVID will be killing in November.

Whether that's the current wave still sweeping the nation or an early upswing after a hot-weather lull in cases and deaths (which we desperately need) isn't known yet. But since humans haven't developed immunity, and we won't have a vaccine by then, repeated waves of outbreaks are expected.

Democrats could not artificially "politicize" this pandemic even if we wanted to because the Trump pandemic in America IS a Republican political product.

Republican senators and congressmen have always been heavily involved in the pandemic legislation we passed, both supporting and opposing, and some of them know a great deal about pandemic disease and medication development. As legislators, they were involved in the very successful containment of deadly SARS and MERS during the Obama admin, the great national efforts required to limit Swine flu deaths when that got loose, and the setup of the new pandemic control office.

This time, in power, the Republican leadership knowingly chose to BLOCK and DELAY action to stop the first cases of 2019-nCoV in our nation from spreading into a pandemic until it was far too late to contain. McConnell et al could have blocked Trump's destructive actions at any time by making him an offer he really couldn't refuse. And as this holocaust develops, many Republicans in congress and across the nation are STILL blocking and delaying (and many are not). Having to try to work with the ones in congress as if they were still gentleman colleagues must be a very grim business for our Democrats these days, but those are the conditions of this battlefield.

The Republican congressional leadership's fully-informed blocking and delaying isn't theory, it's fact. VP Biden, out of government, issued his first public call for action on January 15, but he would have been getting reports on and speaking to his former colleagues well before. The Republicans' motives and goals are open to question, but the stark evidence of their deliberate inaction and three months of attempts to deceive America into complaisance is extremely well established -- by them.

So my question is, by the time November comes, will a majority of the electorate have come to accept that the unthinkable IS happening here?