Posted on 06/19/2019 11:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats should not delude themselves: unless they shape up and fast the president is heading for four more years
On Tuesday night President Trump launched his re-election campaign with a by now classic rally in Orlando, Florida. It was a Greatest Hits rally in which he accused the Democrats of undermining democracy (by trying to impeach him), talked about the many threats to this country as we know it, and even railed against Hillary Clinton (for old times sake). In short, Trumps message for 2020 is: I made America Great Again, now vote for me so I can Keep America Great.
Democrats will dismiss the speech as lacking ideas and just fearmongering, while reveling in recent polls that have virtually every major primary candidate defeat Donald Trump in 2020, sometimes by a significant margin. They believe the president is weakened by a broad range of issues, including the Mueller report, the treatment of immigrants at the southern border and the various scandals surrounding key cabinet members.
Remarkably, given the traumatic experience of 2016, many Democrats have still not learned the key lesson of US democracy: elections are not won by passive majorities but by mobilized minorities. And while the passive majority might be with the Democrats, or at least not with Trump, the mobilized minority is. There are (at least) four reasons why, at this moment, Trump is cruising towards re-election...
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Oh the msm polls will insure that the President will be running his campaign with a double digit deficit until election night.
Not even close. But, he isn't Trump 2.0 either. He has served well as VP and over the next two years a determination will be made, hopefully by Trump, who can best run in 2024 on the GOP ticket. Lots of time.Is VP Pence another George Bush ?????
The reality is that few sitting VPs are elected POTUS. Early on, yes - Adams succeeded Washington. And, FTM, Jefferson succeeded Adams. But that was before the passage of the 12th Amendment. Subsequent to the passage of 12A, all you have is van Buren succeeding Andrew Jackson - and GHW Bush succeeding Ronald Reagan.In the context of 12A, the sitting VP is the political heir of the sitting POTUS. If Mr. Trump is able to confound the media and leave office with high approval, VP Pence has a shot at the presidency. If not, not.
You forgot about Teddy Roosevelt succeeding McKinley. Cooledge succeeding Harding. Truman succeeding Roosevelt, and Nixon succeeding Eisenhower (in 1968. He would have won in 1960 except for Chicago fraud).
VP is the best office from which to become President. Governor is the second best.
. . . none of whom were elected president while sitting as VP.VP is the best office from which to become President. Governor is the second best.
VP is the only office from which to become president without being elected president. So in that sense, this is true. But VP is a better office from which to win the nomination of your party than it is to be elected POTUS in your own right. If your sitting POTUS isnt more popular than most two term presidents are in their second term, you dont win.Anyone running to succeed a sitting POTUS of their own party has that issue. A sitting VP has it in spades.
I agree that governor is an excellent credential for a presidential candidate. Because, IMHO, governor is an executive position, like president (or mayor, which is inferior to governor). In fact the only senator or VP to defeat a governor in a presidential race was Harding, who defeated the governor of his own state (Ohio) in 1920. That Democrat governor had a terrible headwind trying to succeed Wilson, also a Democrat, who was unpopular at the end of his second term.
And no senator has ever beaten a sitting president. When you look at the Democrat candidate field, I think you dont see any prominent governor in the mix. Hickenlooper, I think - but "Hickenlooper who?
Lots of things have happened for the first time, of course . . .
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