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What if Trump refuses to accept defeat in 2020?
CNN Politics ^ | February 23, 2019 | Joshua A. Geltzer

Posted on 02/23/2019 12:41:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President Donald Trump's critics are increasingly focused on the question of which Democrat will challenge him for the presidency in 2020. It's an important question, but another one might be even more important: Regardless of who runs in 2020, if Trump loses, will he leave the Oval Office peacefully?

Let's start with why we need to ask this question: Trump is increasingly proving himself to be a President eager to overstep his authority. Just last week, Trump displayed his willingness to invoke unprecedented presidential power to declare a national emergency utterly without justification. This week has brought a startling report from the New York Times that, for the past two years, Trump has tried to undermine the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other parts of the Justice Department in order to, in the words of the Times, "make the president's many legal problems go away." In light of these overreaching assertions of his own authority, it's at least plausible that Trump might attempt to cling to power in ways previously unimaginable by an American president.

Thankfully, there are four steps that key actors across the American system of governance can take to get ahead of this possibility....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donaldtrump; election2020; joshuaageltzer; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like Hillary refused to accept the 2016 election results??

Like CNN still doesn’t accept the 2016 election results?


21 posted on 02/23/2019 12:50:40 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Yup. They draw straws to see who has to write the article this time.


22 posted on 02/23/2019 12:50:56 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: butlerweave
Hilary never conceded her loss to Trump.

Hey, CNN! Why don't you run THAT one down?

23 posted on 02/23/2019 12:52:04 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You mean like Hillary and the democrats in 2016?


24 posted on 02/23/2019 12:52:26 PM PST by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: JennysCool

Well, I read a whole lot of similar stuff written right here on FR about Bill Clinton in 2000 and BHO in 2012 and 2016. It’s not just the left that does it. FR was replete with posts about how they would never leave office. Just keeping it real.


25 posted on 02/23/2019 12:52:32 PM PST by NELSON111 (Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog show. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet more proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.

These people are absolutely delusional.

SMDH...


26 posted on 02/23/2019 12:53:55 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: butlerweave

CNN hasn’t accepred defeat in the 2016 elections.


27 posted on 02/23/2019 12:54:22 PM PST by HapaxLegamenon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. Projecting much?


28 posted on 02/23/2019 12:54:55 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same silly meme they used in 2018 LOL!

Well, they want to appeal to idiots...


29 posted on 02/23/2019 12:55:06 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And it is Social Democrat presidents who have openly speculated on staying in office for third term. Both Mr Bill and Hussein talked about that.


30 posted on 02/23/2019 12:55:55 PM PST by arthurus (safff)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, the DNC plan is to flood the 2020 election with fake ballots in every state to guarantee a landslide “victory ,” which will be announced as a scathing repudiation of all things Trump.

The prep work begins now.


31 posted on 02/23/2019 12:55:55 PM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: mrsmith

2016

(My how time flies when you’re having fun!)


32 posted on 02/23/2019 12:56:52 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I mean, we're still trying to get the last three Democratic presidents—Carter, Clinton (well, Ms Clinton, anyway), and Obammy—to accept that they're not running the country any more.
33 posted on 02/23/2019 12:57:17 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CNN. Tools of Soros and the Rothchilds and the Bank of England. They are the enemy.


34 posted on 02/23/2019 12:58:01 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: butlerweave

xactly my thought. Nor her diehard supports still not accepted her defeat.


35 posted on 02/23/2019 12:58:20 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hell, the Democrats still haven’t accepted the results of the 2000 election.


36 posted on 02/23/2019 12:59:03 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

YA MEAN LIKE THE RATS IN 2016???


37 posted on 02/23/2019 1:00:21 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: Truth29

That will happen. There was large scale partly open fraud in 2018 and less open but still quite perceptible fraud in 2016. There has been no blowback. The Democrats will go balls to the wall with it in 2020. They know there is no price to pay beyond a very few individual voters being punished and maybe a local operative or two. The Republicans don’t care, seem even rather pleased with the situation and lost their opportunity to fix it in the 2018 elections. i expect the Democrats to sweep in 2020 and do it with clear and barely sub rosa fraud.


38 posted on 02/23/2019 1:00:33 PM PST by arthurus (ah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t think mommy gave little Joshua his “Cap’n Crunch” this morning. He’s a retard. Asking “what if” about President Trump exactly about his Mommy Clintoon did 2016. The boy ain’t right in the head. This clown is one of the reasons why Americans put the “media” at the bottom of every list. The “media” is full of retards.


39 posted on 02/23/2019 1:01:48 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These goddamned asshats STILL haven’t accepted the fact that Donald Trump won fair and sqaure, despite the press, foreign governments, and various .gov agencies conspiring against then-candidate Trump, whilst covering up numerous felonies of previous administrations.

I hope these MFers die in a fire. Jeeze Louise.


40 posted on 02/23/2019 1:04:16 PM PST by Freedom4US
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