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No one can be certain if Trump will win or lose reelection
The Hill ^ | August 3, 2019 | Ronald L. Trowbridge

Posted on 08/03/2019 5:48:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump could win. Or he could lose. By no means does anyone know for sure. I base this uncertainty on six dimensions.

Dimension 1: Immigration

Democrats clearly seem to be implying: “Let all illegal immigrants into the United States. Then give them free health care, including the 11 million illegal immigrants presently in the country.” Costs to taxpayers would be beyond staggering. Trump, as we all know, opposes such actions. We can assume the public is divided. The unknown is: No one can divine the answer.

Dimension 2: Trump’s supporters Hillary Clinton found out the hard way that it was political suicide to attack Trump’s supporters by calling them “deplorables.” Such an insult mobilized a reactionary backlash in spades. Yet all the time we hear of people being chastised simply for wearing a MAGA hat. That’s an attack on the voters themselves—never a wise idea.

Caitlin Flanagan made this same point in the May 2017 issue of The Atlantic, a left-leaning cerebral magazine. She knew better, and her title said it all: “How Late-night Comedy Fueled the Rise of Trump.”

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Polls
KEYWORDS: trump2020
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To: Bommer

“This will be a Ronald Reagan type of crushing landslide”

indeed. practically every political aspect is strongly lining up in that direction ...


41 posted on 08/03/2019 8:46:50 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Its almost like nobody knows the future.

sadly it seems more and more don't remember the past either

42 posted on 08/03/2019 8:53:52 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: morphing libertarian

yup..

he has failed badly on the budget. He didn’t even put up a fight.


43 posted on 08/03/2019 9:21:21 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn

every president kicks the budget down the road.


44 posted on 08/03/2019 9:22:16 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Sadly so many Republican voters just ignore your wise words.


45 posted on 08/03/2019 9:32:02 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: IronJack

Well, he could win or lose; we can’t be sure of what the American people are thinking. But anti-Trump is a powerful force.


46 posted on 08/03/2019 9:33:25 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: morphing libertarian

Trump sure talked tough about it though.

But yes, eventually though..

That can is going to explode like no explosion we have ever witnessed before.

then it’s game over and it all falls apart.


47 posted on 08/03/2019 9:37:29 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn

I’m 73 in DEC and I told my kids about this. One out of 4 pays attention.


48 posted on 08/03/2019 9:40:33 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: catnipman

I’m not worried over a Second Term; I AM worried that he will continue to be handcuffed by a democrat (OK, Socialist) House of Representatives. How many seats are we currently down, and how many other ‘republicans’ have already announced retirement?

Donald J. Trump is good, but not Superman,

And NO democrat congress will let him become a de-facto benevolent dictator a-la Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore...even if that is what the USA will need.


49 posted on 08/03/2019 10:21:16 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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To: dynachrome
“President Trump could win. Or he could lose.’
The Magic 8 Ball does better at predicting.

Well, Magic 8 Ball, could he win?


50 posted on 08/03/2019 10:22:03 PM PDT by henbane
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like “I don’t think so but I doubt it’’.


51 posted on 08/03/2019 10:28:38 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has anyone blamed the NRA yet?


52 posted on 08/03/2019 10:29:09 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure. This is 72 or 84 all over.


53 posted on 08/03/2019 10:56:47 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Steely Tom

No, they said Hillary was a shoo-in and there’s no way Donald Trump will ever be elected President of the United States.


54 posted on 08/03/2019 11:30:37 PM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat
>> Ezra 2500 yrs ago said Trump will have two terms. Good enough for me. <<

Yeah, that reminds of the passage where Moses said 3,500 years ago that I should buy an ipad.

55 posted on 08/03/2019 11:32:45 PM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do you know what we have done about Vote Fraud since 2016 election?

Nothing.

Trump put together the Pence-Kobach "Voting Commission", but it was a total farce.

Democrat controlled states simply refused to turn over their voting rolls and data, so the commission folded like a cheap tent and went home.

In the 2018 mid-terms, vote fraud was real. Again, nothing was done.

56 posted on 08/04/2019 3:37:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: BillyBoy

Well, he was right about Hoover through Obama. He could get it wrong I suppose.


57 posted on 08/04/2019 3:52:43 AM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Voter fraud is the only thing that will keep Trump from being re-elected.


58 posted on 08/04/2019 5:46:09 AM PDT by woofer2425
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In 2020, one third of legal eligible voters will be non-white.

They have consistently voted 75%-80% for the Democratic Party for decades.

Trump will need 60% of the white vote just to be competitive.

Trump got only 57% of the white vote in 2016.

Turn out is the key - if the Democrats get their core voters to the polls in FL, WI, MI, and PA, Trump will lose

59 posted on 08/04/2019 5:53:14 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: SkyPilot
Re: Do you know what we have done about Vote Fraud since 2016 election?

The same thing we have done about voter fraud since Nixon-Kennedy in 1960....

Bupkis!

60 posted on 08/04/2019 5:58:13 AM PDT by zeestephen
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