October Surprise

 There is a name for events that take place late in Presidential campaigns. It is known as the October Surprise and this election year has been nothing but surprises daily in the reality show saga Trump has turned the American government into. The most recent is the revelation that Trump has gotten the Covid-19 deadly disease that has killed over 209,000 Americans. It is tragic in that he knew and showed NO leadership in containing the spread of the disease for 7 months now. His constant self-promotion rallies are simply super spreader events of disease. American Presidents take oaths when sworn into the job to protect and serve this country. He has done neither of the two. 

October surprises come in planned events and others came in literally surprises that did influence the outcomes of elections. The financial markets collapsed in 2008. In 1980 a October surprise happened when Regan was running against President Carter. On November 4, 1979 there were 52 Americans that were being held hostage in Iran. On the Sunday before the Tuesday of that election negotiations collapsed thus helping Regan to a victory in that Presidential election. Americans were convinced to try someone new in order to get the hostages back. So is this surprise telling Americans to try someone new to combat this Covid crisis?

There was a President to benefit from a last minute turn of events before an election. When the Army won a battle in Atlanta in late September, it probably saved Lincoln's second term as President. It built enthusiasm in the North and there was hope that the Civil War would end. 

Four years ago Hillary was winning the election by a landslide in 2016, till the October surprise came from our Director of the FBI Jim Comey saying just 11 days before the election that he was investigating Hillary's e-mails for misconduct. Many feel that revelation ruined the election of the most qualified person to be President in America who would have had the honor to be the first woman President on the 100th Anniversary of the right to a woman to vote. After years of investigations it was finally determined that she had committed NO WRONGDOING. That October surprise ruined her election.

Another October Surprise that year was the revealing of the Access Hollywood tape in 2005 of Trump saying that he can grab women by the pussy and get away with it. This year we have the New York Times revelations that Trump has not paid taxes in 10 years. This year we have the Bob Woodard tapes of Trump saying he knew all about the deadly virus seven months ago but chose not to protect the American people because he didn't want to create a panic. Will Impeached Trump be able to escape his October Surprises too and still emerge triumphant again? 

Let it be known the Joe Biden has never had any October Surprises in his long career serving this country well being a Senator since age 30. As Vice-President he was known for negotiating with Congress, managed the economic recovery and was the skeptic on Afghanistan. Vice President Pence has only led the task force combatting Corona Virus and he has done a poor job with 209,000 dead and counting with even most of the staff at the White House now infected with the deadly disease too.