The country needs a couple of big revelations now to make sure we DON'T see the mythical blue wave. Normies believe almost everything they see on TV, and for the last 18 months, they've been fed an extremely controlled narrative almost exclusively. Time to rattle the cage and wake a few people up!
Who says they would have known? The best time to shoot down a ballistic missile is during the boost phase when it is going slower, under great stress, and before it can release decoy countermeasures. It would have been hundreds or thousands of miles away from AF1.