Is Trump losing on purpose?
He never fully supported mask usage when it was easy to do so.
He botched the delivery of ventilators and basically showed no interest.
He supported nonsense remedies that had no chance of working.
He attacks Biden by uniting him with Bernie.
He avoids dividing establishment dems and progressive dems like he did in 2016.
He attacks protesters even though their support polls higher than his.
He wastes time on monuments and statues when everyone is worried about the pandemic.
I think he genuinely likes to rally and have his audience praise him and his one-liners. But when given the choice between appeasing rally-goers and winning re-election, I suspect maybe he's lost interest in the latter.