Posted on 11/30/2016 10:23:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since Hillary Clinton was defeated in her second run for the presidency, many have assumed that she’ll finally be going away for good. If they think that, though, then they don’t know the Clintons. Not only is Hillary not leaving the public eye, she’s already considering another run for the White House in 2020… or so the rumors go.
Sources say that Hillary’s recount efforts are just part of her long-term plan to run again in four years. And the person floating this idea is Ron Fournier, member of the White House Press Corps.
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Does Hillary think that she actually has a chance in 2020, or is this just a baseless rumor? She will still have the same problems in 2020 that she had in 2016. The DNC did everything they could to get her into the Oval Office, and they failed miserably. Will Democrats want to line up behind Hillary again? Streiff at RedState says yes. “…you can never go wrong by betting on Bill or Hillary Clinton to engage in craven opportunism,” Streiff wrote. “[T]he DNC is owned and operated by the Clintons. It is staffed by Clinton loyalists. It floats on cash raised by the Clinton fundraising apparatus. As we saw this year, if Hillary Clinton decides to put in her dentures, pull on her Depends, and make another White House run in 2020, no one in the DNC is going to stand in her way.”
Even if theoretically, Democrats are willing to give her another shot, will actual voters feel the same way? Donald Trump polled as less popular than she did, but not by much — voters didn’t like Hillary. Many of them were bitter and angry at having Hillary shoved down their throats. There’s no reason to suspect that would change in four years.
Technically, Hillary could run again in 2020. But it probably wouldn’t be the smartest move — not for her, or for the Democratic party.
And the Dems and Hillary will have the advantage of rapidly changing demographics. VA will vote Dem in Presidential elections for a very long time.
Trump has an opportunity to redefine the GOP constituency. Jeff Sessions' brilliant article written almost three years ago is the template for victory. It should be required reading for every elected GOP official. It appears that Trump was the only one to read it.
Becoming the Party of Work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself.
Townhall in the bottom news said MOOCH was too.
Trump's plan to move black and Hispanic voters at least partially into the GOP camp appears more ambitious. However, he did better than Romney did with both groups four years ago. There is a working class element that will benefit from strict enforcement of immigration laws and increased industrial employment. I think 40% of the Hispanic vote is achievable, but the black vote may not reach that high, especially if a black man receives the Democrat nomination.
Democrat Donors Turn on Their Party: Feel Like Their Money GOT BURNED In Hillary’s Stunning Loss
Aleister Dec 1st, 2016 9:00 am 43 Comments
Many Democratic Party donors have had it. They fully expected Hillary to win in a landslide. They even thought they might take back the senate and they forked over a lot of cash to make it happen. Now they think it was a big waste and many of them won’t be giving the party anymore money any time soon.
The Hill reports:
Trump's plan to move black and Hispanic voters at least partially into the GOP camp appears more ambitious. However, he did better than Romney did with both groups four years ago.
Almost no inroads with black and Hispanic voters if you believe the exit polls. The big issue was turnout and Hillary failed to turn out Obama-like numbers with these groups. Trump actually received 2% less in terms of white voters. 59% for Romney versus 57% for Trump.
I think 40% of the Hispanic vote is achievable, but the black vote may not reach that high, especially if a black man receives the Democrat nomination.
Those are losing numbers for the GOP if the rapidly changing demographics continue.
Worth mentioning.
The exit polls were wrong. Period. Ask Luntz.
All these internals the media relies on to make their explanations are from the exit polls — clearly wrong.
We have zero data about anything.
Wrong about what? Who won or the information on the demographics of the voters and their attitudes?
If she doesn’t, at least, make noises indicating she will try it again, the Clinton Foundation’s donors are going to demand their money back before Federal investigators seize it all.
The latter. If the exit polls were wrong, they were wrong.
One does not get to say this part of the exit polls were right and for this part they were right.
We know nothing of how whites voted or hispanics or blacks or college educated.
The exit polls were wrong. Ignore everything from them and we have no data about anything.
mistyped . . . we don’t get to say this part of the exit polls was right and this other part was wrong.
They were wrong.
Entirely. We have no data.
(1) "We will put the coal miners out of work..."
(2) Her smug, snarky "basket of deplorables" remark.
Hillary was done before she ran in 2016. The precise point where she folded up as a human being, was when she lost to Obama in 2008. She has never been the same person since that time.
Sure, she has appeared animated and alive on occasion, but it’s all a strenuously performed act, which is carefully stage managed by her closest aides and handlers.
The woman is more corpse than living person. The stench of death is on her. It’s only the small spark of demon energy in her blackened soul that keeps the ice water pumping through her collapsing veins.
Stop fearing that putrid creature. She has no power, and no future.
That demographic issue is what the “experts” insisted would keep Trump out of the White House. Fortunately, he was able to peel off some of those groups. He drew 13% of the black male vote...something that hasn’t been accomplished by a GOPer since Reagan.
My recall is the 2004 ones were wrong.
Francis Bavier when she was younger. Hillary could only wish she at one time looked as good as Aunt Bea.
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