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Trump's wish for the Supreme Court may be his downfall (Overturning Roe will defeat him in 2020)
CNN ^ | July 6, 2018 | Bradley Tusk

Posted on 07/06/2018 8:57:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Despite what many of us want to believe, President Donald Trump is the front-runner in 2020. If you supported him in 2016, you have little reason to regret your choice -- he's working hard to fulfill all his campaign promises. Sure, the polls often show that Trump's approval rating is underwater. But voters are a lot more than just data points graphed onto projections.

No incumbent president in recent history has presided over a strong economy, not been enmeshed in a ground war and lost the next election. So, for those of us who desperately want to see a new president, just telling ourselves that a majority of the voters in key states will see what we see and feel how we feel isn't enough to actually win. It's going to take more than the constant tearing of garments and endless howls of outrage to beat him. It's going to take an outside factor -- like Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.

There's no easily foreseeable reason the Senate won't be able to confirm whomever Trump nominates. In theory, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, could join the 49 Democrats and slow the process, but it may not be realistic to expect every Democrat to stick together, particularly ones up for re-election in red states....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; abortion; fud; obstructionofjustice; roe; roevwade; scotus; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus
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Editor's Note: Bradley Tusk is CEO of his own firm, Tusk Ventures, which consults with companies that work with government. He was campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg's successful re-election bid as New York mayor in 2009 and served as deputy governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2006. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.
1 posted on 07/06/2018 8:57:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN’s obituary for Donald Trump #4,745,320


2 posted on 07/06/2018 8:59:01 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t understand why libs are so sure RvW is going to be overturned.

It probably won’t be. I’d be thrilled if it were, but it’s pretty unlikely.


3 posted on 07/06/2018 8:59:09 AM PDT by JamesP81 (Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. Vote and act accordingly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The illegal alien inundation will be the determinant factor in 2020, not abortion.


4 posted on 07/06/2018 9:00:23 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If that is true, then the Left should support, encourage Trump to appoint an anti-Roe v Wade justice.

For the Left, the country must be about its main business — the killing of babies by the millions.


5 posted on 07/06/2018 9:00:46 AM PDT by odawg
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To: SoFloFreeper

We’ve got him this time!


6 posted on 07/06/2018 9:01:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

LOL! Aint that the truth.


7 posted on 07/06/2018 9:01:34 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JamesP81
I think it's DUE to be overturned. It never should have happened.

It will then go back to the states.

8 posted on 07/06/2018 9:01:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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(Overturning Roe will defeat him in 2020)

Then politically, the best thing the Democrats can do is let Trump overturn Row v. Wade.

9 posted on 07/06/2018 9:01:37 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump downfall predictors are banking on the stopped-clock principle. One of them is bound to be right, they hope. Eventually.

I’ll stick my neck out, and predict he won’t last more than two terms as President.


10 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:01 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s what second terms are for


11 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:11 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SoFloFreeper

CNN’s psychotic dream.


12 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:37 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing makes the delusional so furious as TRUTH.)
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To: JamesP81

Just a scare tactic to get the Leftists motivated.

Abortion will never be Illegal in this Country, but it will be limited in scope if the SCOTUS is transformed from the Legislative Body it has become with Activist Liberal Justices who have no respect for the Constitution.


13 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:44 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Yo-Yo

It’s not as devastating as it seems. It will simply go back to the states.


14 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even the most Trump hating lib will admit that no president in anyone’s lifetime has even come close to fulfilling their promises. No one else is even in the same league, Not Reagan, not Truman, no one.


15 posted on 07/06/2018 9:02:57 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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HA! Presuming his pick gets confirmed by the end of summer, and then some state does something to restrict abortion, and the case goes to court, it will be well beyond two years before that case EVER makes it to SCOTUS.


16 posted on 07/06/2018 9:03:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jump to conclusion much, idiot writer, whoever you are?


17 posted on 07/06/2018 9:03:44 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: RedStateRocker

Truman didn’t really have to make promises, FDR just had to pass away.


18 posted on 07/06/2018 9:03:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Oops should read “No OTHER President ....”


19 posted on 07/06/2018 9:04:16 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals are more worried about foreigners and killing children than anything else.

Those two subjects are their only concerns.

Foreigners are their importing of voters since Americans don’t want to vote for them, and they need the votes to keep up their killing of children.


20 posted on 07/06/2018 9:04:18 AM PDT by CodeToad
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