Posted on 12/28/2017 6:36:20 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Will President Trump face a challenge from within his own party in 2020?
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R) seems to think so. On Sunday, Flake told ABC’s “This Week” that if the president did not change his approach, he “is going to leave a huge swath of voters looking for someone else.”
Flake, a frequent Trump critic, added that the president is “probably inviting a Republican challenge.” Any challenger to Trump would face enormous hurdles.
The president remains popular among Republican voters, even as he endures historically low approval numbers at large. In most polls, around 80 percent of GOP voters give Trump the thumbs-up.
Still, Trump would become much more vulnerable if Republicans suffered major losses in the midterm elections set for November 2018.
And it’s easy to see why some of his most strident GOP critics might think it’s worthwhile to run against him, even if victory is a long-odds bet.
But who is most likely to do it?
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None would do any better than JEB!
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
I would bet here & now that any & all of the rallies Trump holds in the 2020 campaign will draw more people than all his opponents combined. The ONLY decent revenue NFL stadiums will see in 2020 is money from the Trump campaign to RENT their facilities for rallies. The NFL will be gone or hanging on by a thread & hotshot players will be making about the same as a high school principal.
Remember that Biden went to Wisconsin for Shrillary & he drew LESS than 25 people-—other than the 30 press members who were there???2020 will be just as pitiful as Joe’s ‘campaign stop’ for Shrillary. Even for Rep’s in 2020.
GOP e persons will be heavily thinned out. They have no place in our country politics since they run on any platform they can dream up & them promptly have amnesia when they are sworn in. They are turncoats, IMO.
By then, Trump will have cleaned out a massive number of Fed workers, shut down large parts of this bloated Federal government & cut more payments to the UN—if he doesn’t actually have the UN MOVED OUT of the USA by then. IF he moves the UN off American soil, he might make that building a resident facility for OUR military vets.
EVERY Federal department will be cut & more modernization will be implemented in Defense. They are still using 30 year old computers there. More ships—More missiles- MORE DEFENSE. Better vetting for those who enter our military.
‘Refugees’ trying to enter the USA WILL be SERIOUSLY vetted—and the Supreme Court will uphold his right to determine who does come into this country. Many already here will be deported. Never to be able to return.
MORE Conservative judges will be holding seats all over the country, including 2 or 3 Conservative replacements on the Supreme Court. That one item is the most important of all because it lasts longer for the American people.
Fat Boy in N Korea will be gone & I do mean GONE. No Nuclear weapons will be needed, but he will disappear in a fine mist, along with his cohorts. Possible that N & S Korea are reunited. China will back off of that arrangement. Japan will support that reunification, but with strict control of weapons ONLY in the hands of the S Koreans. There will be a massive relief effort to feed the starving N Koreans. Their army will be disbanded completely. Their soldiers can learn to farm.
He will have paid down the deficit with the billions of $$$ coming back into the USA & the 15.5% taxes thereon, and with the new taxes on income from Americans working again.
He will implement mandatory random drug testing for all welfare recipients. Those who cannot pass will be barred from such payments for at least a year on the first offense, and will get 10 years in a special prison for further offenses.
Trump will work very hard to protect the money of the working American taxpayers.
The FBI & DOJ & CIA will be employing new people who haven’t been playing loose with the laws. Those who have contaminated & embarrassed the country with their behavior will face serious prison time & total LOSS of all their benefits & pensions.
HILLARY —OBAMA—BILL ClINTON will be indicted & their nefarious empires torn apart. Benghazi charge & e-mail charges WILL be brought against Shrillary, along with Uranium One. George Stephanopolus will be under suicide watch in an institution due to his imbedded and perpetual loyalty to Shrillary.
Huma will be facing jail. Valerie Jarrett will be doing the same. Michelle Obama will be in hiding. Others will be trying to cover their tracks, and testifying against each other.
The URANIUM ONE scandal will be far, wide, & deep. & Trump will get plenty of people in his net with that scandal. Most will face charges of TREASON for their involvement.
Bundys & the Hammonds will be pardoned & all their rights restored. They will get compensation from the government for what happened to them. The Feds who were involved in both events will face charges & the FBI guy who shot LaVoy Finicum will stand trial.
Mueller & all the agents of the ‘dossier’ will be hiding in exile, after paying HUGE fines for all their mischief. McCain will have passed away, so he avoids serious fines for his participation. It will be revealed that Obama, Brennan & others DID wiretap Trump—for a very long time. They will be prosecuted for thism and lose their benefits & pensions. There will have to be serious consequences for all this rotten behavior.
Media will be trimmed even more with more sex predators revealed. Shakeups will keep all the TV entertainment shows busy for years.
ALL the Congressional payments to victims of sex predators will be revealed & none of those predators will be in a political position again. ALL the money paid in their behalf from taxpayer funds will be repaid with interest & those involved will NOT receive their Federal benefits.
Voter ID will be enforced NATIONWIDE & Americans will rejoice that fact alone. ALL voter rolls will be restructured —from scratch. Old records will be frozen & reviewed for prosecutions, and prosecutions WILL take place.
Rosie O’Donnell will have received a serious visit from the Secret Service & will be facing charges of threatening the President. Same for Kathy Lee Griffin.
Colin Kaepernick will be working on a paving crew in Alabama or Mississippi. A real hot job for a really stupid person.
Sheila Jackson Lee will be bought down thru her own hubris. Even a totally black district has some common sense. She will not be able to ever hold political office again. AND—NO BENEFITS, either. She can learn all over again to WALK where she needs to go.
Pelosi will be gone & Feinstein will retire. Jerry Brown will be forced into hiding, as Californians realize how badly he screwed them. Maxine Waters will be found out about her NOT living in the district she ‘represents’ & she will be sent packing. Further investigations into her husbands banking actions will be very interesting.
Sanctuary areas will have been handed a serious financial blow & Federal money will no longer be sent to them. Those areas will find out it isn’t financially beneficial to them to keep hiding illegals & the removal of such illegals ill make the American citizens born here legally much safer.
The 14th Amenement will be clarified so no ‘anchor babies’ can be called citizens. That amendment has been twisted & butchered to create phony ‘anchor babies’. Chain Immigration will be stopped & those who came her on such methods will be reviewed & sent back to their own countries.
Arpaio will head a special task force to indict politicians who took the oath of office to follow Federal & State laws & then did exactly the opposite. Especially regarding Sanctuary status.
The WALL WILL be in place and returning military personnel will join the Border Patrol to keep out the invaders.
DACA kids will be sent back south of the border. They will have to go to the BACK of the line to apply for re-entry into this country. They will not be able to do so for at least 10 years into the future. SOME kind of penalty must apply to such behavior.
Anyone here can add more to his list of reasons Trump will win handily in 2020. This is just child’s play to him to vanquish this bunch of names.
Bobby Kennedy might have pulled it off in 1968 if he hadn’t been shot.
Cruz was nuked by Trump in 2016. Like him or not, he's gone as far as he's going to go, politically.
Sasse is Jeb! redux. No chance.
Flake can't even win election in his own state.
Kasich might have a chance, if the nation runs a little more to the left between now and 2019. He didn't do much in the primary, but also didn't hurt himself.
I don't know anything about Martinez.
That's my $0.02.
Cruz stabbed Moore in the back - for that I want no part of him.
He already insulted the base by calling us “angry old white men”
Boy, 5 morons can vote against in 2020.
Even when Beck was a big star on Fox News, there was something about him that didn’t seem emotionally stable. His positions on policy were great, but he sometimes went over the edge a bit too much. It got worse with time.
It was most noticeable when David Barton of Wall Builders was on. Barton would sometimes have that look of “I’m not sure I want to be associated with this guy.”
The other 20 percent (of Republican voters who don’t approve of Trump) are not real Republicans.
Nixon and Johnson had been Senators, but so was Walter Johnson. They didn’t go directly from deliberative body to executive office. Same for Truman. Harding did it directly.
It is common knowledge here that RINOs are Democrats. Actually they are some weird hybrid that don’t fit anywhere.
Smaller/same cast! Same result!
All are LOSERS. Especially mentally ill Kasich. Why would they waste their money?
That’s the whole thing, who is just going to run just to get the name ID up?
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