October Suprise

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so any big news story that comes out in october? i mean,sure, its possible... But i would assume being positive for COVID would hurt your chances of winning, and since the white house itself reported trump's sickness, its not likely that this is some October surprise(TM) move. we still have 28 more days for shenanigans, hang tight

Interesting idea, though a bit conspiracist IMHO, Trump has the coronavirus to manipulate the election.

When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered badly from the virus back in April, support for him and his policies swelled.

Johnson looked like shit when he wpoke to the nation, then he ended up in hospital, and even at one point intensive care.

I can't see how you could fake something like that.

Also

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1311958523912294401?s=20

No, surge predated announcement.

>I can't see how you could fake something like that.

While I think the evidence for his faking it is nil, it would be really easy to fake this.

To fake how johnson looked at that announcement to the nation

To fake going into hospital

To fake going into intensive care

Without a single person leaking it?

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