God Bless The Onion!

City Enters Phase 4 Of Pretending Coronavirus Over https://t.co/A5ZJbWnQP2 pic.twitter.com/GUrredUKxL

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 15, 2020

On the other hand, is it a joke?  Or is this?

Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

This year, Stephens said, “We’re thinking landslide.”

Seriously?

Guys, Florida nearly DOUBLED its previous all-time high case load for one day yesterday. 🚨 pic.twitter.com/Wqg9VyEeU9

— Matt Rogers 🎙️ (@Politidope) June 14, 2020

Ripple effects of downturn show pandemic’s early economic toll was just the beginning

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— Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) June 15, 2020

These guys are just flat whistling past the graveyard.

At the center of the disconnect between Trump loyalists’ assessment of the state of the race and the one based on public opinion polls is a distrust of polling itself. Republicans see an industry that maliciously oversamples Democrats or under-samples the white, non-college educated voters who are most likely to support Trump. They say it is hard to know who likely voters are this far from the election. And like many Democrats, they suspect Trump supporters disproportionately hang up on pollsters, under-counting his level of support.

Yeah, support is being WAY over tallied:

The latest results, still being tallied as absentee ballots are counted, show Democratic turnout in Georgia surpassed 1,060,851 – the previous high-mark set during the 2008 presidential primary when then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama trounced Hillary Clinton.

Republicans lagged behind, with more than 950,000 votes in last week’s contest. But there was no competitive statewide contest on the ballot, since President Donald Trump had already locked up his party’s nomination and U.S. Sen. David Perdue faced no primary opposition. 

November is gonna be a slap in the face with a very cold fish.