Posted on 04/05/2019 12:50:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For President Donald Trump, it may prove to be the bounce that never comes.
On the afternoon of March 24, the news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller had found no collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russians — a moment for which the president and his allies had been waiting almost two years. But a week later, Trump's average approval rating, according to the Real Clear Politics tracker, had climbed a grand total of one-tenth of one percentage point — to 43.2 percent from 43.1 percent.
You could argue, of course, that Americans are reserving judgment.
The complete Mueller report has yet to be made public, and the summary from Attorney General William Barr did note that Trump had not been exonerated on the issue of obstruction of justice.
Plus, The New York Times reported Wednesday night that some Mueller team members may be dissatisfied with Barr's characterization of the report, and NBC News published a story on Thursday reporting that some members of Mueller's team believe "the evidence that Trump sought to impede the investigation is stronger than Barr suggested."
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BS!
You got no bounce, you projecting POS.
The only thing Trunp got was more solid numbers
Numb nutz...
(Not u 2d)
He had a narrow path the last time, not a problem
These people sure know how to roll out the BS for the weak minded, and we all know their is an ample supply of the weak minded to absorb their BS.
I think Trump wins takes VA and NH this time as well as holding all of the other States.
If Trump is so disliked, then Big Media should be elated, correct?
Yet they’re always angry and glum ... which is why most of us think they’re lying about Trump’s re-election chances.
Plus, his opponent will be a doofus with lots of baggage - easy meat. Will it be the anti-Catholic bigot Kamala? Groper Joe? Socialist Bernie? Or maybe the woman who eats her salad with a comb?
What a clownshow. THESE are the people who are gonna defeat Trump? Not gonna happen.
NBC has Schiff for brains. They wouldn’t know a winner if one ran over them, turned around and repeated the action. How do they ever find their building to broadcast this ridiculous BS.
Pay no attention to the words of the little lefty homo Steve Kornacki. He was one flummoxed fruitcake on election night 2016.
Trump’s ceiling is 51% and his floor is 45%. He has no room for error.
Never get your news from a homosexual.
He had a narrow path and lower approval last time.
Per Wiki
Kornacki is openly gay, and publicly came out in 2011 through a column in Salon.
Technically, they’re correct. If you are looking at job approval numbers, they’ve hardly moved since the Mueller probe ended. The question lies in how severely do the pollsters cook the books given they were all wrong in 2016?
Not to mention, in each poll that puts Biden vs Trump, they have Biden winning by 5-8 points. So let’s see if the hits on Biden are moving that needle which might ultimately be more important.
I also want to see what happens if somebody like Coffee Boy runs a third party campaign. If I were Trump, I’d get an intercessor to put up all his filing fees to get Coffee Boy on all 51 ballots.
Hey, a little reverse spinning was worth a try...to an apparently panicking DNC minion.
I thought Trump would nab NH in 2016, and the fact that he didn’t, along with the fact that NH really veered left in 2018, doesn’t give me hope in that department. I expect we’ll lose Maine’s 2nd district in 2020, Trump picking up that EV in 2016 was an aberration we won’t see repeated in my opinion. Realistically, both small potatoes that we hopefully won’t end up needing to clinch 270.
The rest of the field? We need PA, WI, MI, and Trump will really need to pull a rabbit out of his hat to thread the needle through those 3 again in 2020. Not liking how they’ve been trending post-2016, but we will see.
Colorado? Probably not. Nevada? Probably not. New Mexico? Probably not. Will we lose Arizona this time around?
Not to sound like a concern troll but it’s a tough map going into 2020. Whether it’s slightly tougher or slightly easier than it was going into 2016 will depend on who the dem’s nominate and how well Trump is able to expose whatever flavor of crazy their nominee embraces. Trump’s biggest advantage in 2016 was shock and awe, the first time in decades a non-politician, normal-seeming guy was in the running. He doesn’t have that freshness anymore. He made some big promises that he has been prevented from keeping, eg the wall, by his own party, the opposition party, the media, even his own administration undermining every step of the way, but it would be easier to run on “I built the wall” than on “I tried my damnedest to build the way and the swamp undercut me.”
Of course, those making this claim are unidentified sources. In other words, sources making up a false claim.
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