David Smith chronicles another busy week in a weird election year: Biden and Trump reveal bare knuckles and Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be asked to step downJournalist Maureen Dowd memorably described the choice at the 2016 US election as “the king of winging it versus the queen of homework”. So no surprise if the king of winging it had a limited help. Sixteen months into his campaign,he rolled out a modern slogan, “Drain the swamp” – referring to Washington. Soon enough #DrainTheSwamp was trending on Twitter.
But evidently this wasn’t Trump’s own view. As a crowd chanted “Drain the swamp” at a rally in Geneva, and Ohio,on Thursday, the Republican candidate admitted: You know, and I didn’t like the expression – I started it what,a week ago, right? ‘Drain the swamp’ and I said, or I don’t like it,and the people were going crazy, they loved it. All of a sudden, or I like it.”Tens of supporters attend Tim Kaine rally in West Palm Beach,FL. pic.twitter.com/1Sk5cGbDw2Continue reading...
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