Posted on 04/03/2019 1:20:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews offered his take on the Democratic Party’s drift to the far-left, which he warned could have an impact on the 2020 presidential election.
Matthews reminded voters of the 1972 presidential election between incumbent President Richard Nixon and then-Democratic presidential nominee Sen. George McGovern (D-SD). Nixon won in a landslide, taking 49 states and 60% of the popular vote.
He suggested such a scenario could be possible in 2020 if Democrats nominated a far-left candidate to go up against President Donald Trump in 2020.
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“What’s hard is to identify a leading candidate that is resisting the move to the left,” Matthews continued. “Very hard because all seem determined to hold their own among those young, strongly progressive, often minority voters expected to make up the voting base in the early states. I have a strong memory of how this pattern of Democratic Party behavior worked out the last time the party went hard to the left. It was 1972. George McGovern was the chosen nominee. Everyone enjoyed themselves. The convention was giddy with excitement even if not that well organized. I was there watching the Massachusetts delegation actually dancing in a circle. They were so happy. The Democrats lost 49 states that year to Richard Nixon who not only carried the Electoral College, losing only Massachusetts and D.C. but 60 percent of the popular vote.”
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You are probably right.
They ran some of those weird leftist nut jobs for governor of Florida and Georgia and to my amazement, they almost won.
I’m sorry. The DEMs could hoist up the worst socialistic DEM ticket possible and they would still pull at least 175 EVs. Probably more. Everyone thinking 2020 could possibly be like 1972 or 1984 are delusional.
“Drift to the left??”
Sorry, Chrissy. Your friends are in a full-blown, out-of-control, pell-mell stampede headlong to communism.
Whoops. I posted similar in post #23. You are correct.
Add to that the tens of millions of illegals that the dimrats have been importing solely for the 2020 election.
I believe that Trump will win, but it will be close.
...and (R)'s doing almost nothing to stop the invasion.
Yep, turning the presidency over to (D)’s .... (I hate typing out the whole name(s))
I respectfully disagree. Sure, there won’t be any 49-state landslides. But who would have thought a republican would ever win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan again? Trump is a different kind of Republican. And with his record to run on, and some hardcore leftist as his opponent, he could potentially win close to 40 States.
Gosh, I hope so Tingles.
The Democrats lost 49 states that year to Richard Nixon who not only carried the Electoral College, losing only Massachusetts and D.C. but 60 percent of the popular vote.”
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It would be a beautiful thing to see the republicans win the popular vote and force places like california to give their delegates to the candidate with the most votes.
sadly its likely the democrats have weasel worded their popular vote moement so that its not in effect right now— especially if republicans win the popular vote.
McGovern would not be leftist enough for today’s Democrat Party.
He means Socialist, not Democrat, right?
Actually, Trump is a moderate. It’s only the press and Dems who have portrayed him as far right. What he’s done has been very moderate and follows the law.
That’s why Dems need those borders OPEN..they are losing white voters everyday with their insanity so they need to replace them real quick
The issue here isn’t so much far left, but extreme anti-white, anti-male and anti-hetero.
“At this point, Hillary would be the moderate ‘rat candidate”.
I think she’s going to watch the other idiots eat each other and then step in and present herself as the moderate.
Democrats may well understand that Trump is way beyond them in political ability and that they are not going to win in 2020 no matter who they offer up. so they get their most radical desires out there to become part of the fabric and nest time they tone it down but their toned down rhetoric is more acceptable because the voters have heard it all before and the quieter insanity sounds more reasonable and votable.
Sure, Trump won 30 states last time, and it’s not impossible for him to peel off a handful more. But there are maybe 10-12 that neither Trump nor any GOP candidate can win in 2020. CA is the most egregious example. No GOP candidate has won statewide in years. The combination of left-wing elites & immigrant voters is just lethal. The Dems can put literally anyone on the statewide ballot and that person is a lock to win.
Matthews may be a partisan hack, but he’s often very politically astute.
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