Here’s the problem with these political calculations, the all run down the clock on his presidency. He becomes a lame duck the moment he takes his second oath of office. His first term has been eaten up by the Deep State and obstruction from the rest of government (even his own party) on the two major issues (to his base) of immigration/migration and Deep State political corruption.
The moment he becomes a lame duck, the forces of obstruction can simply kick in again and we find ourselves approaching 2024 with the problems we wanted solved in 2017 worse than they were, or certainly no better. He will have accomplished much on improving the economy in the short term. But that can be easily undone, and likely will be undone, in the blink of an eye. Kicking the can down the road for politics is not a winning move for term limited administration.
Trump got a visit from 2 Texas congress critters yesterday. They told him closing the border would devastate Texas, not just Mexico. There was a WH statement on it posted somewhere, but it did not mention who they were. I am betting Cruz was one of them.
Maybe he thinks Republicans will take back Congress and he can get the wall and health care..thing is, when he was elected he had the Senate and Congress and nothing was done regarding the wall, what makes 2020 different