Election Day is now just three months away and this year's campaign is unlike any other due to the pandemic. So are we ripe for an October Surprise, a bombshell that drops just before voters head to the polls?
There have been a few in the past. In 1972, Richard Nixon's administration floated the idea that "peace was at hand" in Vietnam just weeks before he ran for re-election against Democrat George McGovern.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, who explains the history of the October surprise.