Sandy Shanks
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It is eleven days before the 2020 Presidential election. At this point, four years ago, FBI director James Comey reopened the investigation of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States.
FiveThirtyEight reports, "Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28. The letter, which said the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation” into the private email server that Clinton used as secretary of state, upended the news cycle and soon halved Clinton’s lead in the polls, imperiling her position in the Electoral College."
Two days before the election, Comey issued a contrite "sorry about that" and closed the investigation for lack of anything new.
It was too late.
Eleven days before the 2016 election, most polling averages showed Clinton ahead by six to eight percentage points in national polls. A week later, her lead had declined to three points.
The Times reports that Trump won in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by less than 80,000 votes, winning each state by less than 0.8 percentage points and handing him the Presidency.
The Times also reported, "Late-deciding voters broke overwhelmingly for Trump, the exit polls showed, and the Comey letter and its disclosure of new information in the email investigation was a significant part of the news coverage over the last week of the election."
This year there is no Comey, and Joe Biden is not being investigated by anybody for anything.
Contrast that with Trump who has been the subject of countless investigations, was impeached but vindicated by the GOP Senate, and is currently under investigation for tax fraud by the federal prosecutor in New York.
FiveThirtyEight reports, "Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28. The letter, which said the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation” into the private email server that Clinton used as secretary of state, upended the news cycle and soon halved Clinton’s lead in the polls, imperiling her position in the Electoral College."
Two days before the election, Comey issued a contrite "sorry about that" and closed the investigation for lack of anything new.
It was too late.
Eleven days before the 2016 election, most polling averages showed Clinton ahead by six to eight percentage points in national polls. A week later, her lead had declined to three points.
The Times reports that Trump won in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by less than 80,000 votes, winning each state by less than 0.8 percentage points and handing him the Presidency.
The Times also reported, "Late-deciding voters broke overwhelmingly for Trump, the exit polls showed, and the Comey letter and its disclosure of new information in the email investigation was a significant part of the news coverage over the last week of the election."
This year there is no Comey, and Joe Biden is not being investigated by anybody for anything.
Contrast that with Trump who has been the subject of countless investigations, was impeached but vindicated by the GOP Senate, and is currently under investigation for tax fraud by the federal prosecutor in New York.