With only four days before Election Day, the United States has topped 9 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of this writing, 9,018,524 Americans have been afflicted with COVID killing just under 230,000 of us (229,356). This represents a mortality rate of 2.5%. Please keep in mind we've added 500,000 new COVID cases in less than a week with hospitalizations reaching critical levels all over the country.
More than 83 million Americans have voted either via absentee ballot or through early in person voting. I suspect a great many of that 83 million who have voted do not want the kind of leadership which allowed this number of cases and this much death not to mention suffering from lost jobs and lost income. I cannot imagine this state of affairs is acceptable to most Americans. If this is the case then Donald Trump will lose. If not on November 3rd then sometime thereafter when the votes have been counted.
But there will always be doubt so long as Trump questions the legitimacy of any election he loses. Who can say that Republican controlled state legislatures or the conservative majority on the Supreme Court won't give him a second term despite the will of the voters?
If this is the case then we will continue to have more COVID cases, more death and more suffering with no end in sight. To quote Trump it will be "COVID, COVID, COVID."
One can only hope that the vote against Trump is wide and deep enough to convince Republicans to abandon the President especially if Republicans end up losing the Senate, Governor's mansions and state houses. Because President Trump's legacy is "COVID, COVID, COVID."
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