Posted on 07/31/2017 4:46:25 PM PDT by HokieMom
President Trump could win the White House again in 2020 — which likely would send hostile political operatives and the disapproving news media into an epic meltdown. News flash: Get ready. Mr. Trump will likely win re-election, says one analyst.
“President Trump did not ascend to the White House in the usual way; he broke with traditional campaign orthodoxy and tactics,” Ford O’Connell, a political analyst and adjunct professor at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management, tells Inside the Beltway.
“While Trump’s first six months in the White House have been marked by early stumbles, a healthy dose of palace intrigue and low approval numbers, history says Trump is in fact the odds-on favorite to win re-election in 2020, should he choose to run. Why? Because presidential incumbency has its privileges. Since 1900, 20 presidents have sought re-election. Of those, 15 won and five lost — that is, if you include Gerald Ford, who was never elected in the first place.”
Barring some unforeseen calamity or Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, the fate of Trump’s presidency will live and die with the state of the economy in the fall of 2020.
“To ensure that the electoral winds are favorable to Trump, his administration must deliver results by passing tax reform before the 2018 midterms, showing significant progress on other key campaign promises: securing America’s borders, infrastructure, trade, conservative judicial appointees. He must also continue to instill in working-class voters in both the Rust Belt (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin) and Sun Belt (Florida, North Carolina, Arizona) battleground states the belief that he is tirelessly fighting for them. If Trump does that, voters will forgive his impetuous ways and rehire him,” the professor concludes.
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In a spoof of election night on SNL Chris Rock assured the white liberals in the room that “8 years will fly by.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc
President Trump tweeting from the future, kewl.
I noticed that!
I love looking at news on FR and being happy all the time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2_AYt8-Z0
Trump has to get through 2018 first.
I think the Republicans will lose the Senate in 2018 and lose a good 10 to 20 seats in the House. The Republicans in congress have been so pathetic there is now way Trumps base turns out for them.
2020 is too far off, but I think it will be tough. Trumps base is large, but the anti-Trump crow is just as large and will show up to vote him out. It will be very close.
Hope their heads explode like the Martians in “Mars Attacks” when he wins.
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The Repubs are pathetic but the Rats are far worse and they can’t hide it anymore. The numbers are far out of favor for the Rats to take he Senate in 2018. Too many Rats at risk, and no reason to vote for them.
If it wasn’t for controlling mass media the Democratic Party would have gone the way of the Whigs by this point. The DNC is broke and no one likes their candidates. They can’t make any headway in special elections so I doubt they will do any better in an off year election which generally favors republicans anyway. Congress has to do something though...this obstructing their own president isn’t going to help them.
Rest assured, I will vote for Trump again.
So true! Looking good for us since Pelosi is downplaying the importance
Pelosi: ‘Unimportant’ to win midterm elections
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3573285/posts
Me, too. it will be fun to see which GOPe will be primaried in 2018
....President Trump tweeting from the future, kewl....
That came from the White House Interrossiter de ice that he built and is in the far right second floor room where the lights are always on and a flashing red light was seen coming from it for twenty minutes not long ago.
Does not really surprise me, between voting for a guy people may not like and is loose with his words or voting for a party that panders to the snowflakes and the free chit army and college students, they will choose what is currently in the white house mostly.
How would “The Rock” guarantee a Democrat victory in 2020? Have you seen his last movie?
Besides, he may be a republican...
Managing expectations.
When the Fourth Horseman tramples the D caucus with "hell following after", it's going to be a hard slog spinning that as a positive thing. Not a job I would want for any price.
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