Posted on 06/17/2019 12:10:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump will officially announce that hes running for reelection at a massive rally in Orlando on Tuesday. The early line on his chances: Hes not the favorite, but hes far from down and out.
The leak of unfavorable reelection numbers from Trumps own internal polling, which show him behind Democratic candidate Joe Biden in many key swing states, has triggered a rush to judgment among many analysts. While carefully acknowledging things could change, they note that Trumps job approval rating has been negative through most of his presidency and that he trails most prospective Democratic nominees in the key Midwestern swing states he needs to win. The conclusion is easy to draw: Trumps probably a goner, despite the strong economy.
Its true that Trump has been historically unpopular during his tenure. While other presidents have won reelection with similarly low job approval ratings, they all have been in positive territory at some point during their presidency. Whats more, the past two incumbents who ran for reelection, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both received a share of the popular vote that was extremely similar to their job approval rating right before Election Day. Trump has never polled above 44 percent job approval for any extended stretch of his presidency. Unless that improves a lot, hes not going to win the popular vote.
But as 2016 showed, he doesnt have to win the popular vote to win an election.
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Bump!!
The Rats got lots of practice in 2016. By 2002 they will have honed their fraud to a fine point. It really pisses me off that the Repubs sit on their over paid asses and pretend nothing will happen.
Forget the stupid polls. They make money for the media and push bs...vote conservative in 2020.
All it will take is some Occasio-Cortez speeches and similar actions to allow the Dems to commit electoral suicide, and they appear quite capable of doing so.
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