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The news that President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus was just the latest in the most insane year, especially political year, in modern United States history. As soon as Trump was admitted to the Walter Reed Hospital last Friday the 2020 US Presidential Election Odds were taken off the board. With the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court, a battered economy that is showing healthy signs of recovery, a vice presidential debate this week, two more presidenti... 

Just when you think the drama and ugliness of the 2020 Rot Gut Presidential Campaign couldn’t become any worse its about to double down in nastiness and hysteria instead. With the death of left wing icon and Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the tilt of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. For conservative Republicans this is a golden opportunity to gain a supposed 6-3 advantage on the court. For liberal Democrats it’s the living nightmare they have long dreaded and foreseen... 

Could a Presidential election be decided on the basis of a college football conference having its season saved? Last week the Big Ten Conference reversed course and announced it would have a fall football season after all. This was a month after Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren stated that the Big Ten would not play and that the decision was irrevocable. What was the difference? Certainly, the breakthrough of quicker testing makes for a convenient excuse. So too did the threat of lawsuits make ... 

One of the great mysteries about President Donald Trump is how he consistently "steps in it."Gamblers and Trump supporters have both learned to never get too comfortable with the President. Last week is another classic example. Trump had gained around 75 cents on the betting lines over the past month. Then the story about Bob Woodward’s new book "Rage" about Trump exploded last week. Trump was interviewed 18 times by the "journalist" that made his fame in the early 1970’s Watergate scandal. Any ... 

In 2016 Donald Trump stunned the world with the biggest upset in the modern history of United States Presidential politics. A big part of that upset was his winning the state of Wisconsin. Before the 2016 election, the last time that Wisconsin went Republican was all the way back in 1988. 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton was so sure she would carry the Badger State that she didn’t bother to waddle in for even a single visit. Trump, on the other hand, campaigned throughout the state even as its Republican leaders avoided him like the plague. Trump’s efforts impressed Wisconsin voters much more than Clinton’s aloof arrogance. Trump won the state by a thin yet decisive margin. The result was a bellwether of what was to come. And of what could come again. Kenosha, Wisconsin is a normally quiet and working-class town a half hour south of Milwaukee. It’s not so quiet anymore. In fact, Kenosha could decide the 2020 Presidential election. ... 

Whether or not President Donald Trump impressed enough voters at the 2020 Republican National Convention remains to be seen. One thing for sure is that he is impressing gamblers in a very big way. Trump has gone from a decided underdog to basically even and with momentum for his reelection fight against Democrat nominee Joe Biden. Trump and the Republicans put on a show with vastly superior optics compared to the dour Democrats Zoom meeting videos. As a result, the President has earned himself a... 

United States political tradition almost always shows a “bounce” in the polls for the party that just closed its annual four-year meeting. For the bizarre year of 2020 a new normal is the moniker for almost every endeavor. Following last week’s Democrat convention Joe Biden failed to impress gamblers. In fact, the former vice president dropped 10 cents in price compared to before the convention. Gamblers were wavering on Biden before the convention. Four days later they are even more skeptical. ... 

Despite the hysterical media adulation over the selection of Senator Kamala Harris as the Democrat vice presidential nominee gamblers are not nearly as impressed. In fact, Donald Trump gained a dime when the selection was announced. Unlike a media that has become the publicity team for the Democrat ticket of presidential nominee Joe Biden and Harris, the wagering community is a much more objective group. Those who are handicapping the 2020 Presidential Election are well aware of Harris and her v... 

President Donald Trump has had enough. The Democrats overplayed their hand on a second stimulus package that was lit up like a Christmas Tree with a laundry list of items that had nothing to do with stimulus or unemployment relief. Instead of slamming his head against the far-left wall Trump took page one out of President Barack Obama’s playbook. To recall Obama, in his unbridled arrogance, sneered after he led the Democrats to a slaughter house landslide loss in the 2014 mid-term elections that he had “a phone and a pen.” The man that “esteemed” “Presidential Historian” Jon Macham proclaimed to be God on the cover of Newsweek twice spent much of his term issuing executive orders including the blatantly illegal DACA decision. ... 

One important factor in American politics that has stood the test of time is left-wing media bias. Such bias became more pronounced when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President after defeating the forlorn Herbert Hoover at the depths of the Great Depression in 1932. Hoover had the roof cave in on him in 1929 and was never able to dig out. FDR was brilliant at building American morale and optimism even as his programs did little to actually move the needle. Yet the press became his biggest che... 

In this historic time of tumult and chaos the one thing that has been steady is the odds on the 2020 Presidential election. Presumptive Democrat nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, continues to be the betting favorite over incumbent President Donald Trump. However, in the so-called “Battleground States” the President is showing well and that is his path to ultimate victory. Remember it’s not the popular vote that counts but the electoral college. Trump’s stunning 2016 upset win was based o... 

Ironically enough at a time of constant instability, this has been one of the most stable periods on the board for the 2020 Presidential election. Perhaps gamblers have become fatigued with trying to outguess the next intangible that sends events into overdrive. What is most interesting about the current stability is that we are one week away from there being less than 100 days to the November 3 date of decision. With President Donald Trump that may as well be a thousand days. Trump makes news b... 

In the 2016 election Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset since Super Bowl III when he defeated Hillary Clinton based on a campaign that, among other things, was adamantly opposed to illegal immigration. It was a full throated “America First” campaign on borders and the economy.Trump’s economy was doing fine until COVID-19. And he has cut down on illegal immigration. But the DACA issue is one that he has barked a lot about while being tepid in his actions. Now Trump is saying that he will s... 

Cancel culture is eating left and right alive. To many on the conservative side there is some naturally delicious irony in seeing politically correct virtue signaling “progressives” going through the same hell that they have put conservatives through over the past several years. Indeed, many leftists that may have thought of themselves as “bullet proof” have discovered that they are not. So, pardon some conservatives taking delight in their schadenfreude. Not that the right is getting any mercy ... 

Last week there were two contradictory polls that sum up the 2020 election to perfection. Presumptive Democrat nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, is seen by a majority of voters as a man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia. Despite that Biden has a double-digit lead in the polls over President Donald Trump. Just as bizarre is that all of the civil unrest ignited because of police brutality and racism that took place in cities run lock, stock, and barrel by Democrats for multip... 

Saturday’s highly anticipated rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma to kick off President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign was a mixed bag. The arena was half full for a wide variety of reasons including mischief by so-called TikTok teenagers. But as liberals celebrated with joy at the visuals of a half empty arena, what was lost in the noise is that the event drew a massive streaming audience on YouTube. So, while Trump supporters may not show up as they once did, they are instead still connecting to the ... 

Atlanta, Georgia saw a Wendy’s restaurant turn into ashes a few hours after police shot a black man in the parking lot after an attempted arrest turned into a struggle. Rayshard Brooks was sleeping in his car that was said to have been blocking others at the Wendy’s parking lot where he reportedly failed a breathalyzer test and then battled two policemen. During the scuffle, Brooks took away a police taser and pointed it at an officer who shot Brooks dead.... 

Last week the left-wing website Politico published an admission by some unnamed Democrat Party operatives in which they confessed being worried about a robust third quarter of economic growth that would be so strong as to ensure the reelection of President Donald Trump. Those fears may be justified as Trump was able to boast the success of a remarkable jobs report last Friday that caught everyone off guard because of its dynamic numbers. Indeed, the economy is already showing positive signs of being ready to take off like a rocket even in the midst of civil unrest and riots in many major American cities. Most believe the real election factors are yet to come with five months to go. ... 

It was an ugly political week all around in the United States as Minneapolis was being burned to the ground and looted with glee after the despicable killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The video of the incident went viral and set off some well-intentioned protests but also some opportunistic rioting and looting. The violence quickly spread to numerous cities throughout the United States. The important and righteous cause of pointing out unnecessary police brutality and killings was s... 

In his stunning 2016 election win Donald Trump shattered Hillary Clinton and the Democrat’s famed Blue Wall. States such as Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were long considered in the bag for Clinton and impossible for a Republican to capture. However, Trump proved to be in tune with blue collar voters from those states that felt neglected and ignored. In her unbridled arrogance and sense of entitlement Clinton never even set foot in the state of Wisconsin that fateful year. Instead she wa... 

Relatively speaking it has been a good couple of weeks for President Trump. And to many, it’s not an accident. Ever since Trump stopped having daily press briefings in regards to COVID-19 his luck, not to mention his numbers, have gone up to the best levels of his Presidency.... 

In the fall of 2018 as United States Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was being considered by the United States Senate, a host of Democrats automatically believed sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh that popped out of nowhere decades after the alleged incidents took place. There was very little in the way of corroborating evidence. It was the worst form of “he said, she said” and yet the Democrats were ready, willing, and eager to totally destroy Kavanaugh and ruin his life based o... 

One week ago, President Donald Trump was coming off one of the worst weeks of his Presidency. By the end of the week it was obvious that the American people were tired of the marathon “gotcha” press conferences every day that offered little in the way of practical advice and information. Additionally, Trump stepped in it just enough to have his words twisted to the point where the legend grew that he encouraged people to drink bleach as a remedy for the coronavirus (he actually did no such thing). By week’s end reports were out that Trump was so enraged about his falling poll numbers that he got involved in a shouting match with his reelection campaign manager Trump called the stories “fake news”. As was the case with the Billy Bush Access Hollywood tapes of October, 2016 Trump was written off for dead ... 

In the eyes of even his strongest supporters President Donald Trump’s daily COVID-19 Task Force Committee press conferences had gotten out of hand. The “Trump Show’ was often too long and rambling. Combined with that was the utter ignorance and “gotcha” attitude of the Democrat steno pool that masquerades as “objective journalists” reporting “news.” ... 

Remarkably the past two weeks have been relatively stable both at the New York Stock Exchange and with the 2020 Presidential Election odds. Incumbent President Donald Trump remains a slight favorite to win reelection in November. His administration has been at its best in response to COVID-19 by listening to the experts and scientists while bringing corporations and their leaders into the fight with emergency products, guidance and consultation. And perhaps nobody besides the President has been a better performer than Vice President Mike Pence. By all accounts Pence has demonstrated the value of a competent Vice President. And the Democrats should take notice. ...