Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H.

Trump could lose on his own accord as he continues to overreach in exerting his presidential power. He believes that Article II of the US Constitution allows him to do anything he wants. It is possible that he will generate a scandal which will turn Independents, Moderate, and some Republican voters off while at the same time generating an even higher Democratic turnout.

the biggest bust is former Vice President Joe Biden. As noted weeks ago, he has lost a step, and his refusal to monitor or sanction his son Hunter’s behavior has undermined his campaign. To repeatedly insist that Hunter did nothing wrong in taking a seat on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine oil company, while Joe Biden was in office and investigating corruption in that country, does not pass the smell or ethical test.

With its broad array of programs—home ownership, criminal justice, black business development, poverty alleviation, etc., Bloomberg’s blueprint, with its $70 billion plus price tag, is the closest to the African American proposal to reparations which no other presidential candidate has come close to replicating.

The Democrats are seemingly caught in a cycle of self-immolation with their core internal policy disagreements that are likely to wipe out their midterm gains and render them a minor Party. Meanwhile, the Republicans remain in lockstep behind Trump and have a national get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategy they are already implementing.

Democrats need to organize, organize, and organize their voters some more, as they did in 2018, if they are to have any chance of winning the Presidency, retaining the House, or reclaiming the Senate which appears as of now out of reach.