Posted on 03/15/2018 12:21:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel predicts that Donald Trump will get a second term in 2020. “I think that if he runs again, he will get re-elected,” Thiel said at an event hosted by the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.
Thiel also expects that it’s “probably the case” that the Democrats will do “quite well” in the midterm elections this fall. “The question about 2020 is a much trickier one,” Thiel said. “It’s really one of — is there anything that was learned from Hillary Clinton’s defeat?” He added that he thinks there’s a “vague parallel” to the way the Democrats have treated Trump to the way Republicans treated President Barack Obama.
Thiel added that the “fundamental mistake” Mitt Romney made in 2012 is thinking that he could just show up and win.
“There’s a reason Obama got elected. There were some very real problems in this country. You had to talk about those problems,” he said. “It was a failure by the Republicans not to do that in 2012. And I think the Democrats are setting themselves up for an even bigger version of that failure.”
Trump “hate factory”
He noted that a “hate factory of hating Trump all the time” is going to prevent Democrats from “seriously engaging with the issues.” Thiel, a Republican, was the most prominent voice in Silicon Valley to publicly support Trump. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Thiel said that Trump is a “builder” and that he would “end the era of stupid wars.” ...
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Trump has 100 percent of the time said and done exactly the opposite. No informed individual would ever post such a ridiculous comment.
“The biggest threat to a second Trump term is the current Republican Congress.”
I believe that line right there, is worth repeating.
~W
Well, November is going to take care of that.
Why would the D’s do well? The D’s are full of problems, and they have no message, for the voters!
Trump’s already filed to run in 2020 and has a new slogan, “Keep America Great”.
Bush Sr. too.
I’m pretty much expecting anything. But yes, the left IS completely unhinged. Kooky.
All one has to do is look at the field of Dem hopefuls.
Even without that, the DNC is Broke, the RNC is doing fine raising money.
4 more for Trump will be his for the asking.
Wow!
Lets pray it doesn’t turn into the 1860 version.
What’s this “if” nonsense.
Sounds like a take on.... Trump really doesn’t want to win.
Trump doesn’t quit when he gets hit.
Trump hits back 100 times as hard.
Pity his 2020 opponent.
I hope so, but FL is in question due to 250,000 PR’s coming over after the last hurricane.
He only won FL by 110,000 votes or so.
If Trump goes white identity then he has a shot.
PS
Since the communist MF’s are treating him like Pinochet, why not ACT like Pinochet
Nope, Bush senior in 1992 against Clinton and Perot.
Nice
From your lips to Gods ears.
~W
He better!...Whatever damn fool the democraps run will be a disaster by definition!!!
In my conservative neck of the words, leftists have been fairly subdued. I can see it getting violent even here if Trump wins again.
Bush could have won. He just ddn’t.
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