Here's Why I Believe Trump Will Win

Townhall.com ^ | September 12, 2020 | David Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

As a Trump supporter, I don't casually dismiss the polls that consistently show he's behind. But I am cautiously optimistic he's going to win, for many reasons.

Trump won in 2016 against overwhelming odds, the formidable Hillary Clinton machine and almost-unanimous predictions of his defeat.

Though Trump was a well-known public figure, people didn't know whether he would fulfill his campaign promises and govern as a conservative. Many were skeptical, especially on social issues, based on some of his past positions.

Sure, his outsider status was a major part of his appeal, and, yes, Clinton's unlikability helped, but I'm unimpressed with the theory that Joe Biden will defeat Trump because Trump has baggage and Biden doesn't have Clinton's negatives. Biden has plenty of negatives thus far strenuously shielded by the media, and they're becoming more apparent daily. His main negative, of course, is that he is not even a candidate but a hapless placeholder, a puppet in the Democrats' sinister scheme to implement a Bernie Sanders agenda under cover of "centrist" Biden.

Meanwhile, we've never seen a Republican president generate more enthusiasm. He has an electric bond with his supporters, who rightly recognize that he is uniquely situated for these turbulent times.

Conservative, patriotic Americans and everything they hold dear have been under relentless bombardment by the militant left in all sectors of our society -- culture, academia, Hollywood, the media. Everywhere they turn, they're told that America sucks; that they are racist; that they are uncompassionate Christian bigots, homophobes and sexists. They are vilified as intolerant by the most intolerant of people and censored by those waving the banner of free speech.

Most people have no way to respond to the bullying. They're often too intimidated to share their opinions for fear of being demonized. They have their talk radio and television defenders, but they've had no one in elective office to stand up for them and their essential goodness and dignity. No prominent public official has stood athwart this fraudulent, toxic narrative and said, "Enough is enough." But in Trump they've found their fearless, tireless advocate. What other Republican president would have had the guts to stand against this high tide of political correctness and challenge the left's divisive ideas, as when he recently banned federal sensitivity training on so-called white supremacy and critical race theory?

Trump has given freedom-loving patriots a voice, and they will never forget it. Despite efforts to portray him as a carnival barker, he has proven his sincerity on the things that matter to his supporters. They see his genuine love for America and his steadfast commitment to their shared agenda.

Trump hasn't just paid lip service to his ideas, which is as far as many politicians ever go. While Trump's opponents cast him as an inveterate liar, he has kept his campaign promises perhaps more than any modern president. He has produced: on the economy, rebuilding the military, defending life and religious liberty, his stellar judicial appointments, his restoration of America's energy independence (which Biden wants to reverse through his quixotically reckless promise to eliminate fossil fuels) and his decisive rejection of the Democrats' nationally suicidal Green New Deal agenda. Indeed, Trump has vigorously resisted enormous pressure from radical environmentalists to surrender our sovereignty to international bodies guided by pseudo-science and a Marxist worldview, hellbent on returning us to the horse and buggy.

He has also kept his promise to secure more favorable trade deals for the United States, and even Joe Biden recently admitted that the USMCA is better than NAFTA. He has studiously protected American manufacturing jobs, which is not lost on American workers. Unlike his predecessors, he honored his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.

Granted, some single-issue border-enforcement Trump supporters were frustrated for a time when he was unable to secure Democratic approval for even modest improvements to the southern border wall. But despite gratuitous Democratic obstruction, Trump is proceeding with the wall and has made substantial progress.

Though the Democrats and media have savaged this president every day for four years, falsely accused him of unspeakable acts, mounted ceaseless investigations and impeachment proceedings against him, and given him no favorable coverage, he remains undaunted and presses forward.

On top of all this, America is under siege by leftist street radicals who are fomenting racial tension and turning our cities into hellish war zones, not to advance the cause of racial justice but to dismantle America root and branch and fundamentally convert it into a Marxist state. Don't tell anyone, but minorities also care about law and order and jobs and are slowly awakening to Democrats' taking them for granted.

President Trump stands as a towering figure against this lawlessness condoned and often enabled by Democratic governors and mayors. Some polls (e.g., Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's tanking approval ratings) have begun to reflect even Democrats' outrage at this anarchy and their recognition that Biden and the Democrats own it.

The public can't help but notice that a man the left depicts as erratic, unpredictable and unstable has been a steady hand throughout the pandemic (notwithstanding Democratic propaganda to the contrary), the riots and the endless personal onslaught against him.

Democrats are so confident they have irreversibly tarnished Trump that they believe they can defeat him with a candidate who's already ripe for the 25th Amendment. They are brazenly hiding Biden in the closet with the media's reprehensible complicity.

Dubious polls reinforce their arrogance, though it's not hard to imagine that when prudent people are afraid to wear their Trump hats in public, they may not answer polls forthrightly.

So, take heart, Trump supporters. We have a strong candidate with a remarkably successful record, running against a Democratic Party that bears little resemblance to the party of JFK. This new party has no real candidate, no constructive solutions, and a stubborn insistence on dividing Americans based on their group identities and tearing America down. There are surely enough patriots left to ensure President Trump's reelection.

[Shady]

Thank you, David, for your Brother’s and your optimism!

[TigerClaws]

Some great points in the article.

The riots have turned the ‘squishy middle’ Americans to Trump supporters because they see Democrats are only offering destruction and violence.

Aside from the virus (not Trump’s fault and he did more than the Dems would have done with the China travel ban) there’s a great economy, no new idiotic wars, Nobel Peace prizes showing we are respected globally, etc. etc.

Democrats have nothing to offer but more stupidity and Biden who can barely remember his name.

2020 will be a bigger win for Trump than 2016.

Suburban single women and blacks — long the core of Dem voting — are going to be 20-30% Trump. That’ll cost Dems several more states than last time out.

[central_va]

He has studiously protected American manufacturing jobs, which is not lost on American workers.

I have a memory like an elephant, Davis L. was a never Trumper in '16. He was also a Libertarian and was a Free Traitor™. I am glad he is now a Nationalist. I wish our Free Traitor™ Freepers would have the same epiphany.

[tsowellfan]

Anybody got that infamous picture of Tom Daschle sitting alone in the chair with his head down in defeat after he had lost the Senate in 2004?

I have not been able to find it on Google.

[nathanbedford]

I believe polls only to the extent that they can show a trend. I think it is clear that the trend is our friend and so I believe the trump will win.

That is not to say, however, that the path is clear of obstacles and risks.

Trump remained stubbornly behind in several battleground state polls. Yes, he has shown remarkable ability to close the gap but he is not there yet so the question is whether he will run out of steam before crossing line. We have to remember that crossing the line does not occur on November 3 but several weeks before then and, no doubt, several weeks after that.

An October surprise has become a Democrat trademark. Indeed, the Democrats have already trotted out a series of mini surprises almost on a daily basis. These are ankle bites and certainly will not diminish Trump's loyalty from his base. Nor will it diminish its energy. Ankle bites will not activate the already hate blinded Democrat base. The question is whether the black vote or the independent vote will be affected. My guess is that they will not be affected much and I suspect that the Democrat base will not be nearly as energized as the Republican base and these personal attacks will simply not get out the Democrat vote enough. As for a mega October surprise, I think Trump is a known quantity and he will survive anything short of a thermonuclear surprise.

Over the decades the Republican path to electoral college success has narrowed. We are confronted with a chain being vulnerable at its weakest link. It does not take much of a miscalculation for enough battleground states to tip the wrong way and all will be lost. Texas is no doubt safe, Florida likely so, Pennsylvania appears to be on its way but still up for grabs. But the loss of Florida would might be fatal in the loss of Pennsylvania would require a sweep of the upper Midwest. I believe the trend will remain our friend and he has a good chance of taking all of these including Minnesota.

Postelection ballot theft remains an unknowable danger and one which is largely beyond the power of the federal government to prevent, although it might be able to undo in the courts much of the flagrant fraud postelection. The best prophylactic is to win so many electoral college votes by November 3 that the election is too far out of reach even for the rats to steal.

[napscoordinator]

I’d agree if mail in ballots were not in the equation. Mail in ballots get a 90 percent participation rate. Voting in person half that.

[jimjohn]

bookmark

[Kaslin]

You’re full of Bullcrap.

[FamiliarFace]

Have you tried using a different search engine? DuckDuckGo comes to mind.

[OKSooner]

"Over the decades the Republican path to electoral college success has narrowed. We are confronted with a chain being vulnerable at its weakest link. It does not take much of a miscalculation for enough battleground states to tip the wrong way and all will be lost."

"The best prophylactic is to win so many electoral college votes by November 3 that the election is too far out of reach even for the rats to steal.

I admire your optimism.

[central_va]

To some extent, I misspoke, because what I really meant is that not all of Trump's defenders are necessarily his supporters. I am in that camp. I love that Trump is attacking the establishment and status quo, and I agree with him on a number of issues, but he is not my first choice in the GOP presidential race.

--David Limbaugh April 2016

But is their anger skewing their vision and sabotaging their judgment? They seem to have rallied around Trump because he's convinced them he would close our borders, rebuild our military, create jobs and, overall, "make America great again."

But would he? And even if he would, would he inflict other damage?

To the first question my honest answer is: I don't know. On the second, I think that given his history of supporting liberal causes and politicians and many recent statements betraying an instinct for statist solutions, there's a good chance he'd inflict damage, on the courts and elsewhere.

-- David Limbaugh Feb. 2016

I believe that these Trump supporters present a false choice. I do understand and share their frustration, but I reject the notion that only a virtual misfit can lead us out of this mess. I disagree that we have to burn the house down to rebuild it. Human nature and human history tell us that mob rule is a reckless path to correct governmental abuses.

--David Limbaugh April 2016

[bert]

The term Free Traitor is an insulting and offensive term used solely by a Freeper who is grossly ignorant of how America works. The term is in effect an expression of anti American sentiments

[central_va]

If the noose fits wear it.

[tsowellfan]

I’ll try that. Thanks!

[Maris Crane]

I’m trying to come up with a reason that Senator Joni Ernst, along with a few others, are in trouble.

What in the world could they have done to lose the support of their constituents. Have they been bucking President Trump?

We MUST keep the Senate and I’m not worried about POTUS, but the Senate and House keeps me awake at night.

[subterfuge]

Biden only has a chance if the democrats cheat. Period.

[Kaslin]

So what if he had a problem with Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries.

Ronald Reagan was the first President I voted for, but I remember when he announced his candidacy I thought to myself 'Oh my God, he's just an actor what does he know how to run a country?' and I voted for John Anderson in the Tennessee Primary, because I liked what he had to say.

But when Ronald Reagan won the nomination I voted for him, and I voted again for him when he ran for reelection. I did the same for President George W. Bush 43 and will do the same for President Trump.

BTW I did care much for President Bush 41 because he was in the CIA but voted reluctantly for him, because I never vote some third party candidate who has no chance what so ever.

[Kaslin]

I did but didn’t get any result when I did a search with the exact question.