Trump Pressuring Big Ten For Votes (Part 1)

Source: MSNBC

The nation’s current president, Donald Trump, contacted the Big Ten Conference Commissioner, Kevin Warren, with “his concerns” over the Conference cancelling its college football season. The Big 10 Conference university presidents did so due to the coronavirus and the impact it would have on student-athletes, staff and fans. Trump doesn’t agree with their decision and is portraying an “alliance” with fans and student-athletes who are either naive or hold survival-of-the-fittest mentalities.

But some believe there is more to the story. Trump could be playing a political game for the upcoming election similar to the one which has already cost Americans more than 858,661 lives with more than 6,000,000 people infected in the United States alone. The numbers continue to climb, but poor handling of the situation, greed, gullibility or ignorance, and a lack of a sure treatment or vaccine has not stopped individuals from wanting the escapism of sports.

The hot bed for the virus happens to be the home of the Big Ten. The Big Ten Conference includes the Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Purdue University, Indiana University, Michigan State, Penn State, Ohio State, Rutgers University, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Northwestern. Those states comprise 1,282,488 amount of those infected with the virus despite being some of the least populous states in the country. That’s 21% of cases reported in the country. Those same states happen to be “Trump Country” and six are swing vote states.

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Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska are swing states. Trump won those states, but Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, is narrowly winning in 4 of those 6 states. As a tactic to garner votes, it appears Trump has tried using his political clout to have the Big Ten reverse course and play college football this fall.

But trust, there are plenty of smart fish out there who aren’t falling for the okey-dokey.