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Feehery: How Trump wins
The Hill ^ | 8 Sept 2020 | JOHN FEEHERY

Posted on 09/08/2020 6:56:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

Feehery: How Trump wins

Most political analysts believe that Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the coming election. They are wrong. Here are five reasons why Trump wins reelection:

1) Beating an incumbent is hard: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won their reelections not because they were great presidents but because they were incumbents. Reagan lost the Senate in 1982 and endured a crippling recession but still was able to bounce back to win a landslide in 1984. Clinton’s first two years were so bad that Democrats lost the House for the first time in 40 years. Bush blundered America into a very unpopular war in Iraq after the devastating attacks on 9/11, and yet was able to beat a hapless John Kerry in 2004. Obama’s response to the fiscal crisis of 2008 was to pass an unpopular health care law while presiding over the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression and yet he was able to beat Trump’s biggest critic, Mitt Romney. The power of incumbency is a huge advantage, which the current occupant of the White House is using very effectively, from handing out aid personally in places like Kenosha, to pardoning convicted prisoners who had turned their lives around, to using the bully pulpit to set the media narrative day after day.

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KEYWORDS: biden; election2020; feehery; johnfeehery; thehill; thehillary; theshill; trump
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To: SmokingJoe
They can want to steal it all they want, it’s not going to happen.

This time they seem to have done their homework on gameplanning. And they appear to have everybody...state and local election officials, the media, Big Tech, the Postal Service, senior military officers....on-board. It appears they are going to plow ahead with the plan and dare us to try and stop them.


21 posted on 09/08/2020 7:31:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: newfreep

I disagree.

No one should be THAT pessimistic.

Go for a walk.


22 posted on 09/08/2020 7:32:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Side bar, Info: Trump supporters already lined up by the hundreds on the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Smith-Reynolds, Regional Airport, Hangar Tarmac, where the Trump political rally will go forth this evening. Thousands of “Trumpies” expected to attend & cheer/support POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Commences at 7:00 PM local time. When the Hangar fills up, outside Hangar Ramp Space, can handle 100,000 plus folks easily. BE THERE!!!

Meanwhile, Biden presided over a small wake for a dead lawn.


23 posted on 09/08/2020 7:38:41 AM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Sorry...but I live in Realville, not in MakeBelieveLand.

Wake up!!!


24 posted on 09/08/2020 7:41:12 AM PDT by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
This time they seem to have done their homework on gameplanning. And they appear to have everybody...state and local election officials, the media, Big Tech, the Postal Service, senior military officers....on-board

Which is exactly the same as 2016, except Obama doesn't control the federal government this time like they did in 2016. Plus Trump didn't have a clue they were spying on him in 2016, and this time he knows exactly what they plan to do and is ready to fight them tooth and nail come November.

25 posted on 09/08/2020 7:41:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: newfreep
You live in cloud cuckooland.
You talk like they only invented voter fraud in America this year
You may want to read up on history.
Look up Boss Tweede and Tammany Hall in New York and Al Capone a d ballot stuffing in Chicago.
Ballot fraud as carried out by these gentlemen a hundred years ago is much worse then anything we have now. And both men did not have a good ending. There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to human corruption.
26 posted on 09/08/2020 7:48:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

The massive scale of mail ballot fraud being contemplated dwarfs all of those historical examples.


27 posted on 09/08/2020 7:51:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Reagan was not a great President? STOPPED READING RIGHT THERE.


28 posted on 09/08/2020 7:51:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Lou L
It was Mondale who ran against Reagan in 1984.

But your point is still valid.

29 posted on 09/08/2020 7:55:59 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Buckeye McFrog

In some ways, it should actually be easier to challenge by mail voter fraud because of the paper trail it requires.


30 posted on 09/08/2020 8:03:12 AM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Reagan lost the Senate in 1982

Actually he lost the Senate in '86.

31 posted on 09/08/2020 8:03:15 AM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“as a speechwriter to former House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.)”

Whose works always included “I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Democratic majority.”


32 posted on 09/08/2020 8:05:30 AM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
There as massive ballot fraud in Detroit (Wayne County) in 2016. So much so that when Jill Stein demanded a recount in Michigan they found out that total votes cast far exceeded those registered to vote. Jill Stein was forced to withdraw her request for a recount in Michigan cause Trump would have ended up with a bigger winning margin. Trump still won in Michigan anyway despite all that fraud.
This year, Trump has put his own man in charge of the Post Office. Plus Homeland Security is hard at work putting in measures to thwart mail in fraud as we speak. Trump mentioned it in his interview with Hannity three weeks ago.
33 posted on 09/08/2020 8:06:56 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Homeland Security might be Trump’s best card here.

Issue a finding that foreign powers are planning to subvert the election with forged ballots and bar the practice of mail-in voting.

I presume that as CIC he would have extraordinary powers to do such a thing in the face of a clear threat.


34 posted on 09/08/2020 8:11:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Flick Lives

American voters wise up. You are being screwed royally by Democrat Party leaders Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer. These low life, scum & vermin, bastards are holding you hostage from getting your Stimulus Checks from POTUS, Donald J. Trump simply for political reasons. Let these two “TRAITORS” know exactly how you feel of getting it in your rear, where the Sun don’t shine, without Vaseline!!! Do it now!!!


35 posted on 09/08/2020 8:11:30 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: newfreep

No you live in handwringing pointless panic land. Calm the hell down. If it’s as bad as you say, nothing can be done. Screaming at people just makes you hoarse. Of course it isn’t that bad. Really, stop being a douche.

Trump’s gonna win. Incumbent advantage alone pretty much guarantees that. The mushy middle love incumbents.


36 posted on 09/08/2020 8:17:42 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: central_va

You should learn to read. He didn’t say Reagan wasn’t a great president. He said that’s not why he won re-election.


37 posted on 09/08/2020 8:19:27 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
You should learn reading comprehension: The statement

"Beating an incumbent is hard: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won their reelections not because they were great presidents but because they were incumbents."

infers to me he feels Reagan and the others were not great Presidents in the opinion of the writer. Reagan was a great President, perhaps the greatest modern day President, and that is why he won re-election. The writer is too lazy to make the distinction and throws Reagan into the same group as the other mediocre at best list of Presidents then I am to lazy to keep reading.

38 posted on 09/08/2020 8:29:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

No it doesn’t. That’s a very common sentence structure and it means... well it means exactly what it says. The thing in the back clause is not being questioned as existing, simply being pointed out as not the cause of the event. It’s like a team with a great QB dominating the run game “they did not win because they have a great QB”. Doesn’t say the QB isn’t great, simply not the cause.

As for his list they’re 3 incumbents that won in a row. And they all won NOT because of their quality as presidents, but because the mushy middle loves incumbents. These are facts.


39 posted on 09/08/2020 8:35:03 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: SmokingJoe
Which is exactly the same as 2016, except Obama doesn't control the federal government this time like they did in 2016. Plus Trump didn't have a clue they were spying on him in 2016, and this time he knows exactly what they plan to do and is ready to fight them tooth and nail come November.

This would be a much more comforting thought if I felt Trump's DOJ might actually do something to help him the next two months. Left with that, any possible warm fuzzy goes away.

40 posted on 09/08/2020 8:56:12 AM PDT by CatOwner
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