Posted on 12/01/2020 12:42:13 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Presidential politics is a tough business, especially for incumbents who fail to make the cut as re-elected Commanders in Chief. Jimmy Carter, who rode the wave of anti-Watergate sentiment all the way to the White House in 1976, was ousted in landslide to Ronald Reagan in 1980, courtesy of the economic malaise that engulfed the nation during the late 1970s. George Herbert Walker Bush, elected in a rout of Michael Dukakis in 1988, failed in his re-election efforts as economic woes — and Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy — sealed his fate.
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Nothing.
Because those sad losers were decisively defeated. Trump won.
Why post this crap. NO one here is going to read it.
Crap is right, daily from the hill.
Pew, the swHill again...
What a load of horseshit! Carter lost because he was decisively weak. Bush lost because he raised taxes and broke promises. Ross Perot sealed his fate. Trump was beloved by tens of millions and was cheated in front of everyone. This election was stolen from him.
- the highest vote total ever for a incumbent President - 74 million
- gain 12 million more voters than 2016, third highest margin ever. Something Obama didn’t even do in 2012 reelection where he actually lost 4 million voters
- the highest minority turnout for a Republican in 60 years
- Won 19 of top the 20 bellwether counties; 51 of 59 bellwether counties overall by a margin of +15
He won the election hands down but the powers that be within both parties and the deep state were determined to get rid of him by any mean necessary short of killing him outright
Whether he officially is sworn In January or can’t overcome the decked stacked against him - he won two terms. Period
he allowed Iran to be overrun by the radicals, his weakness enabled the Ruskies to invade Afghanistan, he gave away the Panama Canal.
he was a complete failure all around.
There was an article about how it was very odd how Trump lost with all of the numbers in his favor. There were 5 or 6 things they went by, but I can only remember two. One was having a popularity rating above some number, and the other was having so many more total votes than the previous election.
One has to go back to Grover Cleveland(late 1800’s) where the president wasn’t re-elected having such great numbers.
No surprise then that Cleveland ran again four years later and won.
Trump can learn from John Quincy Adams:
Adams lost his run for a 2nd Term.
He then ran for Congress where he stayed for many years.
I’m not ruling Trump OUT yet.
But should he follow the Adams example & run as a Representative in one of his Florida districts I’m sure victory would follow.
Then, assuming an overwhelming Republican take over of the House in 2022, whom do you think would be chosen as Speaker of the House ?
Fantasy, perhaps.
But then, add in the Presidential Zero Year curse.
And, fantasize some more...
A little gloating from one of the most evil publications on earth, a favorite here on Free Republic.
There’s a better chance Trump will serve three terms than there is he’ll serve only one.
I don’t know exactly what it will take for America’s enemies to realize Trump won the election.
But I do know there’s a Trump-supporting muscle to show them—BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
Note to the Hill Trump won.
Learn from Carter? On how to be a terrible president - in fact the worst until he was unseated by obozo. As for G H W Bush, I think he was a good man, maybe too well-intentioned, but undone by his ‘no new taxes’ pledge and Ross Perot taking votes from him.
Everyone seems to forget that Bush lost in a three person race where Clinton only got 47 percent of the vote. If Ross Perot had not run and taken away 16 percent of the votes mostly from Bush, he would have been reelected.
Trump's Lesson Learned: Never put anything past the TDS-Suffering Democrat Party Cabal.
Hold on! President Trump, earlier in the year, did repeatedly warn America about the election-fraud risks associated with mail-in balloting. Apparently, no Republicans paid attention. Then again, shouldn't President Trump have publicly and heavily pressured key Republican leaders to get off their you-know-whats and do something about it, to basically embarrass them until they actually did something?
An absolute fiasco as president. He only got in as a result of the Watergate fallout. And from Day One was totally in over his head. He spent time overseeing the schedule for use of the White House tennis court....
I agree - nothing.
But just for the record, Bush Sr. would have won by a huge landslide without Perot siphoning off 20 million Republican votes.
Clinton “won“ with a pathetic 42% plurality... similar to these epic losers:
1984 - Mondale 41%
1980 - Carter 41%
Soros’ the hill, a leftwing rag.
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