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‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
Politico ^ | June 15, 2020 | David Siders

Posted on 06/15/2020 11:31:58 AM PDT by re_tail20

By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated.

But throughout the Republican Party’s vast organization in the states, the operational approach to Trump’s re-election campaign is hardening around a fundamentally different view.

Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

This year, Stephens said, “We’re thinking landslide.”

Five months before the election, many state and county Republican Party chairs predict a close election. Yet from the Eastern seaboard to the West Coast and the battlegrounds in between, there is an overriding belief that, just as Trump defied political gravity four years ago, there’s no reason he won’t do it again.

Andrew Hitt, the state party chairman in Wisconsin, said that during the height of public attention on the coronavirus, in late March and early April, internal polling suggested “some sagging off where we wanted to be.”

But now, he said, “Things are coming right back where we want them … That focus on the...

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1 posted on 06/15/2020 11:31:58 AM PDT by re_tail20
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Conventional indicators suggest the president’s bid for a second term is in jeopardy. But state and local GOP officials see a different election unfolding.


2 posted on 06/15/2020 11:32:40 AM PDT by re_tail20
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To: re_tail20

Under “Free Republic” Rules, Politco articles, if posted at all, can only be posted under the Blog category.

...and only “positive” Politico articles like this should be posted.


3 posted on 06/15/2020 11:33:54 AM PDT by re_tail20
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Somebody’s lying. Don’t count your chickens.


4 posted on 06/15/2020 11:34:19 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Someone tell the Supreme Court.

Wait, what I am saying? The Supreme Court (like the rest of the Deep State) are betting and working so the President's won't be reelected.

5 posted on 06/15/2020 11:34:56 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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I find phone books more inspirational compared to Media Party speak about Trump and the economy being supposedly a wreck.


6 posted on 06/15/2020 11:35:09 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Is Obama the only senator who won the Presidency?

Biden’s biggest help is the media and anti Trump sentiment.
Biden’s biggest problem is he’s a rambling fool and he’s been in DC for 40 years including part of the 8 years of a Presidency. What exactly can he say “I’ll do this” when he’s had the opportunity for decades to do it?


7 posted on 06/15/2020 11:35:19 AM PDT by snarkytart
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When President Trump wins and wins BIG, the democrantifa crowd will go berserk and try to burn down all of the same cities they’re in now. Let ‘em burn baby!


8 posted on 06/15/2020 11:35:32 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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“The economy is a wreck” — which had nothing to do with him of course since it’s the lockdowns that caused it

“the coronavirus persists” — not really, they just want to say that to keep the lockdowns going so they can complain about the economy

But we knew they were going to pull this BS all along, since that’s the real reason for the un-Constitutional lockdowns


9 posted on 06/15/2020 11:37:45 AM PDT by Regulator
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Landslide


10 posted on 06/15/2020 11:37:56 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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“This year, Stephens said, “We’re thinking landslide.””

All indicators point to exactly that, a Trump and GOP landslide, one greater than 2016.


11 posted on 06/15/2020 11:39:02 AM PDT by Meatspace
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JFK went from the Senate to the White House


12 posted on 06/15/2020 11:39:14 AM PDT by The Klingon
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“Is Obama the only senator who won the Presidency?”

No.


13 posted on 06/15/2020 11:40:09 AM PDT by Meatspace
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All this violence and defund the police will only help the suburbs to vote for him


14 posted on 06/15/2020 11:42:57 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: 43north

At the end of the day, the election will tell us which party was drinking their own cool aid and which party had their finger on the pulse of the nation.

Personally, I think the events that will really shape this election have yet to happen. For starters, you think Biden is bad now? Give it a few more months.

And you think the left is acting stupid now? Give it a few more months.


15 posted on 06/15/2020 11:43:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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In the Electoral College. PT could lose the popular vote by up to 4 ptsstill win!


16 posted on 06/15/2020 11:43:34 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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Questions to ask:

How many people who voted for Trump in 2016 will now vote for Biden?
How many diehard Hillary voters are motivated to vote for Biden?
Will those who sat home rather that vote for Trump sit home again this year?
What percentage of the voting population crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden?


17 posted on 06/15/2020 11:45:39 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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I agree, and believe the leftists know this due to the huge number of their winged monkeys wreaking havoc with some of the most insane reasoning I have ever heard.

I also believe the actual elections are in peril for the same reasons. They know they are going to get their butts kicked, and are trying to burn the bridge rather than have to cross it...

Keep your eye to the sky, and your powder dry...

18 posted on 06/15/2020 11:46:53 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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Trump will win. Period.
The only thing that threatened his reelection was when he allowed Fauci to destroy the economy with his constant hard core diktats on harsh lockdowns. Trump was a bit slow to get behind the end lockdowns movement. But hey better late than never.
As long as he goes 100% to end lockdowns and goes 101% on getting the economy going at full tilt, he wins easy in November.
19 posted on 06/15/2020 11:47:06 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists,...

What turned out to be a potentially serious health issue quckly morphed into the Plandemic, designed to wreck the economy. I live in a deep blue area and this County still has all kinds of mandates while one County over there is almost no evidence of any issue whatsoever. It is about control.

20 posted on 06/15/2020 11:48:40 AM PDT by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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