Let’s talk about some ‘October surprises’ for the 2020 election

[Andy Meek]

• The Trump vs Biden presidential race that will dominate US headlines between now and this fall will be one of the most hard-fought elections of our lifetime.
• The 2020 presidential election will be dominated, obviously, by events surrounding the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
• However, there are many other scenarios that could massively change the game and make current predictions not very useful right now.

Let the predictions about whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will win the 2020 election this fall begin.

There have been so many unconventional surprises that have dominated the arc of Trump's presidency thus far, from the coronavirus pandemic to lockdown measures and the issuance of stimulus checks to Americans, that it makes predicting what will happen in November -- well, more of an art than a science, to say the least. And yet all that uncertainty hasn't stopped one political science professor (who not only correctly forecast Trump's 2016 win but also 25 out of 27 elections) from going ahead and predicting a Trump win in November. Make of that what you will, however -- because, in our view, there's so little in the way of normalcy attached to this presidential election, partly because of all the things we've been covering over the last several months. And any single one of these possibilities could upend everybody's election calculus, from a big drop or asurge in coronavirus cases to a Fauci endorsement to who knows what else.

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