The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
The DNC poll bounce—and Trump’s poll dip—continues. From HuffPo Pollster, going back to about June 1:
Other quantitative measures (i.e FiveThirtyEight’s projections and RealClearPolitics’ poll average) also still have HRC trending up. Qualitatively, it doesn’t look like Trump has done anything that will reverse the slide; yesterday he suggested that Khizr Khan sympathizes with Muslim terrorists who are trying to infiltrate the United States, which seems like it may have been an attempt to introduce the wingnut conspiracy theory that Khan is a secret terrorist into mainstream discussion. If that was Trump’s intent, it didn’t work: Today, even Chris Christie, Trump’s most craven ally in “terrorists gonna getcha” fearmongering, denounced his handling of the Khan family situation. Casting suspicion on the Khans, it seems, isn’t an approach that’s going to wash outside the parts of the wingnut-o-sphere that Trump already has locked down. Our danger level remains relatively low.
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