Good evening with the president down in the polls, two weeks to election day in the

pandemic, just a week away from a, quote, rapid acceleration, according to a former FDA

commissioner, we begin with the question, is the president, the United States on that

and other subjects just saying and doing whatever he wants instead of what actually might help

him win?

Whether deliberately or because he just can't help it, is he going scorched earth in the

closing days?

As we look at the president's rally tonight, near Pennsylvania, I want to read you some

what Republican polls to Frank Lutz just said of the subject, it is, he says, the worst

campaign I've ever seen, they're on the wrong issues, they're on the wrong message,

he said, and he's not alone among conservatives.

In a column today, title Trump is giving up, conservative New York Times columnists, Ross

Douthid accuses the president of disregarding what he called the obvious fall campaign strategy.

Quoting now, push more relief money into the economy, try to ostentatiously take the

pandemic seriously and promise the country that mass squaring and relief dollars are

a bridge to a vaccine and normalcy in 2021.

Instead, Trump has ended up with the opposite approach, which is what you're seeing here

in Pennsylvania, the president ostentatiously not taking it seriously, even though the

first lady pulled out of this appearance tonight because she still said, not even that,

and certainly not in his regarding his own illness, nothing is deterring him from holding

yet another potential superspreader event, and yet another state where cases are climbing.

None of it is stopping him from saying what he loves to say about the pandemic, even though

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