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Trump's Re-election Chances May Be Better Than You Think
Townhall.com ^ | January 17, 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/17/2019 6:24:30 PM PST by Kaslin

What are Donald Trump's chances for re-election in 2020?

If history is any guide, pretty good.

In early 1994, Bill Clinton's approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm elections of the Clinton presidency were an utter disaster.

A new generation of younger, more conservative Republicans led by firebrand Newt Gingrich and his "Contract with America" gave Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Republicans also picked up eight Senate seats in 1994 to take majority control of both houses of Congress.

It was no wonder that Republicans thought the 1996 presidential election would be a Republican shoo-in. But Republicans nominated 73-year-old Senate leader Bob Dole, a sober but otherwise uninspired Washington fixture.

By September of 1996, "comeback kid" Clinton had a Gallup approval rating of 60 percent. Dole was crushed in an Electoral College landslide.

Barack Obama was given a similarly dismal prognosis after the 2010 midterms, when Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats. Republicans regained majority control of the House, though Democrats clung to a narrow majority in the Senate. At the time, Obama had an approval rating in the mid-40s.

Republicans once again figured Obama would be a one-term president. Yet they nominated a Dole-like candidate in the 2012 election. Republican nominee Mitt Romney had little appeal to Republicans' conservative base and was easily caricatured by the left as an out-of-touch elite.

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1 posted on 01/17/2019 6:24:30 PM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 01/17/2019 6:25:27 PM PST by onyx (JOIN 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 MONTHLY! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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Dont need mass media hackster telling me this.


3 posted on 01/17/2019 6:28:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Pay attention to the number of businesses with "Help Wanted" signs out front of their stores.

And the price of gasoline is down below the gas prices of Obama.

Those are just two reliable factors of a good economy and eight years for a Republican president.

4 posted on 01/17/2019 6:28:50 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Nancy Pelosi and the socialist barfly will do wonders for the Trump campaign in 2020.


5 posted on 01/17/2019 6:32:42 PM PST by FLT-bird
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How can Trump’s Re-election Chances Be Better Than I Think? I think his chances are 100%.

But as the gal in Zero Dark Thirty said, “You guys hate certainly, so 95%. But it’s 100%.”

The Left is telling more lies about the landslide that is coming because that
is all they can do - lie. But they can’t stop the coming landslide.


6 posted on 01/17/2019 6:34:08 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Yeah, well, I don’t doubt that in an honest and fair election, that would be the case.

I don’t expect that out of the dems.

I think the vote fraud machine will be cranked up full tilt.


7 posted on 01/17/2019 6:42:49 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Hanson is no mass media hackster!

He has one of the most common sense, articulate, intelligent voices today!


8 posted on 01/17/2019 6:43:11 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Kaslin

While I want President Trump to win, you must remember vote harvesting, lying cheating stealing Democrats are going to manufacture everything they need to steal this election. Count on it.


9 posted on 01/17/2019 6:43:57 PM PST by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Kaslin

Putting a Junket ban on Crongress is a winning peoposition.


10 posted on 01/17/2019 6:45:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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I think it’s going to be a cakewalk to re-election. Trump is what people have been waiting for, someone who fights for us. He doesn’t mince words and he does what he says he’s going to.

What’s not to like? Even young people and minorities may start seeing the light. After all, the dems msg is ‘let’s go back to the suck of Obama’. That’s all they got.


11 posted on 01/17/2019 6:51:48 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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There has to be some extra special attention to voter fraud in 2020....


12 posted on 01/17/2019 6:52:17 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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I’m convinced.

For 2016, they were so sure that Hillary had it in the bag, they didn’t even try. They were caught flat footed and scrambled like crazy to fix the elections but it was too little too late.

I don’t think they’ll take anything for granted next time.

Soon as the ballot is released, they will be cranking ouit fraudulent ballots and having boxes of them ready to turn in.

If Trump; wins reelection, then parting the Red Sea will look like child’s play.


13 posted on 01/17/2019 6:57:43 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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His reelection is all but certain. Most Presidents post-war have been reelected. Ford wasn’t elected to begin with and barely lost; Carter’s so-called Presidency was a disaster, and Bush would have been reelected but for Perot.


14 posted on 01/17/2019 6:58:24 PM PST by 1L
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I’ve always thought Trump’s 2020 reelection was 100% so it can’t get any better than that.


15 posted on 01/17/2019 7:00:15 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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I really think there should be a standard election process nationwide instead of each state having their own system....


16 posted on 01/17/2019 7:07:06 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Trump's Re-election Chances May Be Better Than You Think

Partner, the DemonRat party is in full socialist and communist mode and this will be good for President Trump.

The treacherous, traitorous and lying full time MSM does not even know what to report anymore to the DNC since the DemonRat party is not following the talking points given to the DNC, which is just fine with President Trump.

The American people are sick and tired of the DemonRat party that they can not even find $5 Billion dollars off of a $4.6 to $4.7 Trillion dollar budget. This amounts to just .106 per cent of the Total Budget to stop the Illegal Alien Invasion Riff Raff coming into the U.S.A.

Pelousy will be 79 years old in March and 80 years old next year with much older DemonRat members in her party.

Pelousy found the time to party in the Puerto Rican island with all her DemonRat party members. The optics of that party did not look good at all in front of all those cameras but the MSM was told to stay away. Just Amazing.

The more the DemonRat party obstructs President Trump that more P.O.ed the DemonRats will get which BTW bodes very well for President Trump.

Partner, even the DemonRat pollsters are saying that socialism will be good us since it will mean that we have good hearts. I say a big Bravo Sierra to that since all they want is for President Trump to cave in like George Bush but President Trump is a Street Fighter and he works hard for the American people end of story.

17 posted on 01/17/2019 7:15:21 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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Pelosi did NOT go to Puerto Rico.

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18 posted on 01/17/2019 7:19:11 PM PST by Mears
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To: Secret Agent Man

Obviously, you have no idea who VDH is.


19 posted on 01/17/2019 7:19:58 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Kaslin

I think they are excellent right now.


20 posted on 01/17/2019 7:29:07 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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