Trump: 2020 Presidential Election LOST, not STOLEN

     From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82

July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572

Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130

Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82

Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85

Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118

Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465

Jan     14        4142    15512        1151         189      712

Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398

Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194

April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37

May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59 

June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95

 July    7         251      8440        1595        817      411

Aug     4         656    10120        1118         532      423 

Sept   22      2228      9326          839       279     124

Oct      6       2102      8255          543       315       59

Nov    3        1436      7830         186        458       23

Dec     1       1633      8475          266        477       28

Jan     7        2025      6729         148         285     140

Feb     2        2990   12012          946        991      175

Mar     2        1778     7756          335         173       28 

Apr     1          439      4056         290          52       12

May    5          225      2404          151            ?       64 

         12          222      1995           136           9       21

         19          201      1801           115           20      31

         26          217      1528          136           14      49

June   2          216       1413         130          10       31

          9          195      1526         148           24       24 

        15          305      1382         289           11       26 

         23         266      1650        346            ?          7 

         29         326      1608        294           39       19 

         30         228      1517         274           23       29 

July    6          316      1627        335           35       12 

         13          407       1742        388          38       12 

         14          231       1721         292          47         8

Summary:

• Some details from Worldometer: New cases yesterday/million population.  In other words, don't go there today or anytime soon for those places at the top.
• #1     Channel Islands  7509
• #2     Brunei  3345
• #4     New Zealand  2339
• #5     Finland  2258
• #6     Singapore  1981
• #9     France  1819
• #11   Italy  1803
• #14   Germany 1301
• #16   Taiwan  1156
• #17   Iceland  957
• #24   Israel  783
• #28   Japan  736
• #42   Denmark  336
• #44   Brazil  303
• #45   USA  285
• #46  Mexico  284
• #65  Canada  71
• #82  Saudi Arabia  16
• #87  South Africa  8
• #118  China  0.08
• Does this mean you should go to China?  Nope.  On arrival you will be quarantined for two weeks.
• New deaths/million population.
• #1      Finland  13
• #2      New Zealand  5
• #4      Taiwan  4
• #6      Australia  3
• #7      Spain  2
• #9      Italy  2
• #11    Germany  1
• #21    Singapore  0.7
• #22    USA  0.7
• #34    S. Korea  0.3
• #39    Japan  0.2
• #45    Saudi Arabia  0.08
• Most countries did not report any number of new deaths.
• As of today, the death rate for COVID-19 is 0.8 per million world population.
• Another way of looking at COVID-19 deaths is that if you place 1241 people in a room, one of them died from this disease. 
• Similarly, one out of 14 people in the world has been confirmed to have been infected by this virus.  Asymptomaticity and non-reported surely, though, means that this ratio should be much higher.  So perhaps 10%-20% of us have had COVID-19.
• Weekly trend:  % change of average cases/week from previous week.
• #1       Tanzania  +174,200%
• #2       Solomon Islands  +30.700%
• #9       Tonga  +8100%
• #23     Japan  +113%  
• #25     South Korea  +105% (Note:  100% means the average cases/week doubled)
• #69     Mexico  +30%
• #88     Australia  10%
• #89     New Zealand  10%
• #94     USA  +7%
• #95     India  +6%
•            World +3%
• #102   Singapore +3%
• +109   Finland  -3%
• #111   Brazil  -5%
• #110   Thailand  -10%
• #120   UAE  -10%
• #129   Taiwan  -25%
• #135   South Africa  -20%
• #149   Saudi Arabia  -22%
• #146   UK  -30%
• #179   North Korea  -63%
• In other words, while the USA is not doing well, we are doing a lot better than many nations, even though we had the 4th highest number of new cases yesterday:
• #1      France  119,285
• #2      Germany  109,694
• #3      Italy  108,674
• #4      USA  95,400
• Something I hadn't noticed before:  COVID tests/person.
• #1     Denmark  21.9
• #2     Austria  21.0
• #3     UAE  17.1
• #12   UK  7.6
• #23   Israel  4.4
• #27   France  4.1
• #28   Singapore  4.0
• #37   USA  3.1
• #44   Australia  2.8
• #78   Germany  1.5
• #101 Taiwan  0.9
• #119 India  0.6
• #126 Japan  0.5
• #129 South Africa  0.4
• #142 S. Korea  0.3
• #170 China  0.1
• #208 North Korea  0.009

Today, back to Donald Trump and his continuing attempts to unconsciously ruin the Republican Party.  A poll this week showed that nearly half of Republican voters say they would cast a ballot for someone else than him in the 2024 presidential election.  

That he remains as the leading candidate is a sure sign that Republicans will be in trouble on 5 November 2024.  The current leaders are:

• Donald Trump  49%
• Ron DeSantis  25%
• no one else received double digits

There are numerous speculations, but here is one from CNN last month:

• #1  Donald Trump
• #2  Ron DeSantis of Florida
• #3  Mike Pence
• #4  Tim Scott, senator from South Carolina
• #5  Ted Cruz of Texas
• #6  Nikki Haley
• #7  Gregg Abbott of Texas
• #8  Glenn Youngkin of Virginia
• #9  Rick Scott of Florida
• #10  Tom Cotton of Arkansas

The longer he remains around, the better the chance for Democrats to prevail in 2024.  There is definitely a fraying process in place.  Add to the House January 6 Committee findings a recent disclosure of pre-eminent concern from an eminent core of Republican conservatives.

To quote from LOST, NOT STOLEN:

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After reviewing every claim of fraud and irregularities brought by Donald Trump and his supporters in all 64 cases challenging the 2020 election, a group of notable conservatives has reached the "unequivocal" conclusion that Trump's claims of election fraud are unsupported by evidence.

The 72-page report by former judges and politicians, plus longtime Republican Election lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg, who you see on TV all the time these days, expressed concern about polls showing Trump's unproven claims to have significantly impacted American's confidence in the election process.  Here is the report, LOST, NOT STOLEN.

Maybe dogs should be trained to elect our president.

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