According to the media, the presidential race is effectively over, with a couple of months still left to go in this election.
Normally, in a presidential race, this is where the race heats up. It’s not where the race ends.
That’s particularly true this year because one of the candidates is still a complete unknown. And yet the media have declared — since the news cycle moves so fast and since Trump is such a known quantity — that because Trump did not perform well in the debate this week and because the media ganged up with Kamala Harris in the most rigged debate in presidential history, Trump is effectively done.
A Newsweek article published this morning cites pollster Frank Luntz as predicting Trump’s loss: “I think this race is now over. Donald Trump has blown it. It’s completely done. … I’m trying to decide if I want to go on record, and the answer is yes. I think…