John Heilemann: “One results of this completely unimaginable, genuinely bonkers chain of occasions is that each the Harris and Trump campaigns, the press, and voters are already hyper-attuned to the outlandish craziness of this election yr and have been conditioned, in a method, to think about beautiful, unprecedented turns of occasions par for the course in 2024. In opposition to the backdrop of what’s already occurred within the presidential race, an October with out an October shock—or a number of October surprises—can be the one actual shock.”
“Thus each campaigns are buckled down, fastidiously planning rallies, media interviews, grinding it out with their floor video games, every seemingly of the idea that they’re within the lead, not desirous to rock the boat. However, on the identical time, everyone seems to be on excessive alert, eyes peeled for the looks of black swans, flash hurricanes, or different indicators of ominous glitches within the matrix.”
