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President Donald Trump's poll numbers are bad, but here's why he could win in 2020
CNN Politics ^ | December 15, 2018 | Harry Enten

Posted on 12/15/2018 1:55:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Number of the week: A new Fox News poll finds that only 38% of voters said they would re-elect President Donald Trump if the election were held today. A majority, 55%, said they would vote for someone else.

That's in line with previous Fox News polls, which also found that a majority of voters wanted someone else to be president.

What's the point: The findings of Fox News are no surprise. The President has consistently had a negative net approval rating (approval rating minus disapproval rating). The re-election question is merely an offshoot of that and indicates that voters are not very happy with Trump's job performance so far.

Despite the consistency of the negative polling results for Trump, I would be at least a little hesitant to read too much into them. Job growth from this point forward in his presidency is likely to be a more telling indicator....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2018; election2020; incometaxes; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; trump
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1 posted on 12/15/2018 1:55:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because your effed up network is the only one stupid enough to actually believe it’s “poll” numbers? Could that be why, CNN?


2 posted on 12/15/2018 1:58:46 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fortunately, elections are between actual candidates, not cardboard cutouts with everything good projected upon them.


3 posted on 12/15/2018 2:01:31 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hattip to conservative98. Obama was polling the same at this point in his first term too.
4 posted on 12/15/2018 2:04:20 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My talk radio station pointed out that Trump’s poll numbers match Obama’s at the same time period.


5 posted on 12/15/2018 2:04:25 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course, the truth is that Obama’s rating was enhanced and just wasn’t as good as they said. And Trump’s rating is just a lie. He’s doing better than these numbers.


6 posted on 12/15/2018 2:10:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

DJT will be re-elected POTUS, CNN lowlifes.


7 posted on 12/15/2018 2:13:23 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All possible “D” candidates for 2020 POTUS have problems to the point where President Trump ends up being the better choice, overall, for 2020 POTUS by the majority of general election voters. Ditto, all possible “R” candidates for 2020 POTUS, with too many of them being RINO Republicans and/or being Anti-Trump Republicans. Economic successes and all other successes under President Trump coupled with RINO Republicanism and/or Anti-Trump Republicanism equals candidates for 2020 GOP POTUS who are, immediately and instantly, out of touch with what’s really going on, in the U.S. and in the world and who are out of touch with what the majority of general election voters are able to see for themselves.


8 posted on 12/15/2018 2:15:45 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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The MSM has bad mouthed Trump day, after day, after day, called his supporters every damned name in the book and YET expect people being polled to be honest about supporting him??? BELIEVE ME Trumps poll numbers are MUCH HIGHER than anyone will ever know, just like the election the ONLY damn poll that matters IS in the PRIVACY of the voting booth!!! His rallies are still HUGE his support has not diminished in any way and these IDIOT so called journalists and pollsters did NOT learn one damned thing from the 2016 election!!! The more they demean Trump the stronger his support becomes AND the more quiet the supporters become due to the RABID HATRED spewn on ANYONE supporting him!!!!


9 posted on 12/15/2018 2:16:47 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump and his supporters (me included) must get it in their head that the majority of people in this country are more moved by style than substance. They do not like Trump’s lack of manners, nor his personal attacks (including me). Most are so extremely superficial that if one tries to explain the good things Trump is doing, they tune you out because they are emotionally and strongly predisposed to close their ears.

This makes defending Trump almost impossible.

It is Trump’s hard headed fault and it is up to him to tell the truth politely, to refrain from insults and name calling. And repetition, repetition, repetition!

It will take time, but it can work to change his numbers.


10 posted on 12/15/2018 2:16:50 PM PST by amihow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He will win in 2020 because heretofore the Democrats do not have a viable candidate.


11 posted on 12/15/2018 2:18:29 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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The President dispatched his 16 GOP opponents and her heinous (with all the media and Deep State behind her).

He will make mincemeat of any Dem who opposes him in 2020.

As an aside. I so hope it is Beto the Bucktoothed.

His entire career is build on the fact that he looks like he might have been an illegitimate child of Jack, Bobby, or the Schwimmer.

I think the best Dem ticket would be either Beto/O'Cortez or Kamala/Spartacus.

Trump will pound them into a little muddy puddle.

12 posted on 12/15/2018 2:21:55 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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I met Robert just before he was shot.


13 posted on 12/15/2018 2:26:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Commie News Network wishes President Trump dead every single day..if CNN ceased to exist tomorrow I would not shed one tear..they are just plain evil..they want all Conservatives dead, or replaced, whichever comes first


14 posted on 12/15/2018 2:26:58 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: amihow

For a lot of people it comes down to likability. Fortunately for Trump he was running against people that weren’t that likable like Cruz and Hillary. It also always come down to comparative choices.


15 posted on 12/15/2018 2:37:08 PM PST by plain talk
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Trump won because of the border wall, trade and the economy. He was what nationalists and patriots wanted AND STILL WANT. He was the non globalist. If you don’t get that by now then you will never get it.


16 posted on 12/15/2018 2:40:32 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: amihow

So how did he win?


17 posted on 12/15/2018 2:41:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: amihow
The media avoids giving Trump credit for positive developments. Trump revives the economy by reversing Obama's policies but the media wants people to believe that Obama deserves the credit for the improved economy. Meanwhile the Republican Party does little to support Trump (while some positively try to undermine him).

We shouldn't be complacent. Trump needs to win over people who did not vote for him the first time around--his margins in several states were very narrow and the Democrats have been honing their voter fraud techniques (as we saw in Orange Co., California).

18 posted on 12/15/2018 2:47:09 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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The only way that Trump can win is if the Democrats nominate a bad candidate...which is what they will do. Someone like Joe Manchin could make it a race, but they won’t nominate someone like that. They will nominate someone like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Kamala Harris. Trump won’t win in a landslide, but he will probably win.


19 posted on 12/15/2018 2:47:28 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Add at least 10 points to any poll on Trump popularity of job approval


20 posted on 12/15/2018 2:48:14 PM PST by rdcbn
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