Posted on 05/01/2019 10:41:22 AM PDT by detective
Democrats fear that President Donald Trump’s winning economy may spell electoral doom for them in 2020, Politico reports, citing at least one top Democrat pollster.
“Republicans have long believed that if only the economy held up, President Donald Trump could win a second term,” Politico’s David Siders wrote this weekend in a piece filed from Las Vegas, Nevada: Following another spate of positive economic news — and without a cohesive economic message of their own — many Democrats are starting to fear he might. Anxiety on the left reached new heights last week, with the government reporting that the nation’s economy had grown at an unexpectedly fast pace in the first quarter of the year. While Trump took credit for the surging economy, Democratic presidential contenders were immersing themselves in the Mueller report and debating whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote.
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They have been trying to say that Obama is really the one who deserves credit for the current economy (hoping people are too stupid to understand why that is nonsense). From the sounds of it, the Democrats' political positions in 2020 will be even more harmful to the economy than Obama's policies.
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