GET THE FRIDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST BECAUSE TRUMP'S INTERNAL POLLING IS TERRIBLE AND HE KNOWS HIS ONLY CHANCE IS INSURRECTION: There can no longer be any doubt that the Trump camp knows that he is losing by enough that however close the popular vote may turn out to be, he will lose handily in The Electoral College and his only chance is to foment another usurpation - whether by violence or by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Axios has printed a Trump press release (and describes it as a "scoop") that Trump's pollster has told him tells The Garbage Man "he's in a radically better position than he was right before the 2020 election...(it) draws on Real Clear Politics polling averages to argue that Trump's "position nationally and in every single Battleground State is SIGNIFICANTLY better today than it was 4 years ago."

This is like relying on stuff Rudy Giuliani heard from the voices in his head.

The Trump campaign is furiously stoking up racial hatred, white supremacism, anti-woman rhetoric - and the insistence that he's already being robbed in Pennsylvania. He'd only be doing that if he's being told he's LOSING in Pennsylvania and needs to try to steal the election.

Speaking of Rudy: he has now came this close to dropping a milder version of the N-word.

And checking in on other lunatics: Tucker Carlson insists he was mauled, while asleep, by demons.

AND There's only one possible James Thurber story for the weekend before the election. It's his prophecy of Trump, written in...1931?

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