Posted on 08/05/2017 11:25:52 AM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON — Senators Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have already been to Iowa this year, Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a return visit to New Hampshire, and Mike Pence’s schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.
President Trump’s first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren’t involved.
The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party’s most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles. Mr. Trump has given no indication that he will decline to seek a second term.
Mr. Kasich has been more defiant: The Ohio governor, who ran unsuccessfully in 2016, has declined to rule out a 2020 campaign in multiple television interviews, and has indicated to associates that he may run again, even if Mr. Trump seeks another term.
Mr. Kasich, who was a sharp critic of the Republicans’ failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act with deep Medicaid cuts, intends to step up his advocacy by convening a series of policy forums, in Ohio and around the country.
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Well if it’s good enough for the nyslimes, it’s good enough to line the bottom of a parrot cage.
There is no doubt that there will be a primary challenger if Trump runs in 2020. Question is whether it will make a difference.
John Kasic is no doubt going to be on that list. He can't even carry Ohio in a Republican primary. He has nothing to lose; after his stint as governor, he's pretty much finished in politics unless he goes into lobbying.
Good luck with it.
Its enormously difficult to defeat a sitting President.
More fake news.
Let see...I think Trump has three and a half years left..
Maybe McCain will run..
The real question might be will the New York Times still be in business in three and half years..
NYT = Not Yielding to Truth
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies, and as much good news as possible to bolster morale. We should find and post reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.
The GOP wants to get back to business as usual, importing cheap labor and selling out America.
NYT can’t give up on that bucket of fake news in front of their noses. It’s just too delicious to pass.
Wasn’t this the same NYT that stated the Hillary had a 85% chance of being president?
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Who owns this crap rag?
well....the NYSlimes and WashCompost are just daily communistic/IslamoNazi propagandists
the WashCompost is worthless.
The NYSlimes still has a great deal of value for society (if you like doing crossword puzzles)
otherwise, they both make really lousy toilet paper (i hear)
If I’m not mistaken, they had her chances above 90%, possibly as high as 95%.
The 2020 Horse Race is Fake News of the filler type.
Useless waste of time and energy.
Better to speculate on how many more short NYTimers are going to hit the bricks before December.
How many more Fake Stories from alleged leakers.
Leave him alone, he would make a great democrat candidate
When they’re losing big like the Slimes, wishful thinking like this is therapeutic for the left.
“Maybe McCain will run..”
You can’t run from six feet under, unless you’re from Chicago.
The elites are signaling their intent to remove Trump and return to business as usual. They assume that there would be peace if Trump is removed.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
And they will be the first to go in the ensuing revolution.
We will find them.
Every. Last. One.
I understand Sasse and K-sick, they are both GOPe $hit, but Cotton is a surprise.
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