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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That's the key question. Think about your circle of acquaintances and ask yourself how many of them voted for Trump but now are committed to voting for Biden? Now, ask yourself, among that circle of acquaintances, how many voted for Trump without enthusiasm or sat out the election but now cannot wait to vote for his re-election? Every person to whom I have posed those questions has agreed that the second group is larger than the first.
We shouldn't get complacent but Trump is in far better shape than the MSM will ever admit. Vote fraud is a concern but if we're aware of it so is the Trump campaign and they are in a good position with assistance from the Administration to mitigate its effect.
Great observations.
Still many things to play out between now and election day.
Praying the President can successfully navigate the strong currents working against him.
With all the forces if evil united against him, it will take Divine intervention, but we have seen it happen already once before.
Agreed. It’s time for action.
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Overconfidence gets you killed.
JFK comes to mind.
Either is a denial of reality.
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