Don’t get cocky

B. Jay Cooper
3 min readJun 24, 2020

No one should take his/her eyes off the ball of defeating Donald Trump.

Yes, he’s sinking in the polls. Yes, he’s desperately increasing his racist activities. Yes, he continues his base-pleasing rhetoric. He’s ignoring commenting publicly on the pandemic, unless it’s to say it’s “dying out” even as numerous states are peaking again. And, yes, his Bill Barr-led Justice Department is ignoring all boundaries that protect the rule of law.

He’s doing all those things and more which can lead Trump opponents to think he’s getting desperate and even he think his reelection odds are…

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B. Jay Cooper

Former deputy White House press secretary (Reagan and Bush 41) and former head of communications at Republican Natl Committee. My blog: bjaycooper.com.