And if the Moon People Don't Invade

Senate Republicans are settling on their pandemic message as they fight to save their majority this fall: President Donald Trump did a tremendous job. Story with @BresPolitico https://t.co/sEweR9AkP1

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) May 7, 2020

But nearly all GOP senators running for reelection have decided there’s little utility in breaking with the president, particularly after seeing some fellow Republicans collapse at the ballot box with such a strategy. And if the economy recovers and the virus dissipates by the fall, Republicans could benefit by sticking with Trump.

And the skies across the country uniformly darken when Joe Biden finally comes out of his basement, and blue states are stricken with plagues of frogs and locusts and rains of blood that don't let up until Election Da, then maybe it will be taken as a sign that Trump must be re-elected!

It could work!

“We’ll be doing million and millions of tests, we’ll do the antibody tests, we’ll have good reports, I think, on the beginnings of economic progress,” [Sen. Thom] Tillis said. “And I think all those things will benefit the president and they’ll benefit me.”

Millions and millions of tests!  Someday soon.  Sometime in the sweet bye-and-bye.  Before you know it.  Hell, if you're lucky, you'll get one for Christmas, okay? Go ask Santa Claus.  Oh, and on that "economic progress":

“This is going to be a slog,” he said. “I really don’t think the economy kicks into gear until we get a vaccine or some kind of therapy that everybody feels comfortable about. And even then it is going to take several years to get jobs back. Businesses will have to reform because a lot of businesses fail between now and then.”

That's a much more realistic prediction, especially since the vast majority of people in America are still staying home, despite stay-at-home orders being lifted in some states.

Ask a Republican about Trump’s response to the outbreak, instead of edging away from the president, you’ll likely hear cheers that he shut down travel to China early and praise for his focus on the disease.

“Generally, I feel [Trump’s] done a very good job,” said GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who faces a tough reelection race in Iowa. “He was right on it from day one prohibiting travel from certain countries and so forth. I think it was the right thing to do.”

Yeah, that'll work until this becomes common knowledge:

Oh ... https://t.co/mq5pnVstCF

— Azi™ (@Azi) May 7, 2020

Or if everybody magically erases the images of Trump's daily briefings for the month of the lockdown, or Joe Biden and the Lincoln Project never again mention Clorox, Lysol, or black lights.  Right?

“He exhibited tremendous leadership in this whole process, looking to people who are the experts and acting accordingly,” added Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), whose state is constantly eyed by Democrats as fertile ground.

Yeah, this strategy is electoral genius!