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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He’s running again. He’s even got a new slogan.
Keep America Great.
Obama ran his lips-—talk—talk—talk. He made things MUCH worse in this country, IMO. The blacks have been set back a large number of years with all of his treasonous behavior. He wasn’t American & he hates America.
Obama did nothing to help this country....he only talked.
Trump is willing to do SOMETHING——which is much more than Obama ever tried to do.
I am pretty sure IF we can drain the SWAMP & get to the bottom of all the corruption with Obama, Clintons, Val Jarrett, Loretta Lynch, etc, that Obama will be shown to have been the most corrupt President this country has ever seen.
I cannot even imagine what we would be dealing with by now if Shrillary had been elected. I doubt we would be communicating on the internet at all.
Trump filed the papers to run for President on the same day he was inaugurated. Nobody paid any attention.
Pity his 2020 opponent.”””
How are the Dems going to campaign?
“Vote for me & I will take away that nice tax cut you got starting in 2018” ????
Even Democrat voters got a tax cut. Schumer & Pelosi don’t seem to be able to grasp that fact.
If DJT did decide one term is enough, I believe Pence has zero chance of winning. I think the only prominent Republican capable of withstanding the democrat media is Nikki Haley, and that is only because she is a minority woman, the media would tread gently. The democrat media would shred a white woman republican candidate.
“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.”
Huh? I seem to remember, quite CLEARLY how the GOPe rolled OVER for 0bama whenever they could!
The ‘Rats are fighting PDJT tooth and nail!
President Trump WILL be re-elected, according to prophets. The late Kim Clement had amazing prophecies about the next president after Obama, and said he would serve 2 terms. Kat Kerr is adamant that President Trump will have 2 terms, VP Pence will be elected for 8 years, and then Pence’s VP will have 8 years after that. That will total 24 years of Republican presidents in the White House! Can’t you hear the Dems screaming over that?!
Lastly, Johnny Enlow, another prophet, said last year he sensed President Trump would be re-elected. In January of this year, he declared in an article that VP Pence would be the following president. Johnny Enlow, was initially against Donald Trump being elected president, just like Kim Clement was against Obama being elected, but they have to say what God tells them, like it or not.
I predict that Trump will not win the next election.
There has been nothing done about voter ID.
The Dems are so angry, that they will get out the vote.
Well I keep saying that I am fed up with RNC and feeling like the midterm 2018 elections are doomed at this point...? Any hope?
If the Repubs are this bad, for all I know Trump may end up with surprisingly workable “blue dog” Dems?! Who knows. Even some of the liberal US Supreme Court justices have surprised me...like Elena Kagan backing Trump on travel ban stuff.
2020 is still a long time off...its 2018 midterms that is the worry.
George H W Bush didn’t get re-elected.
He virtually gave the presidency to Clinton.
It became a trend-McCain gave the election to Obama and then Romney did the same.
Voter fraud has to be vigorously worked upon in order for the right people to get elected.
Look at PA where crooked machines and other underhanded machinations by the Deep Web Deep State Shadow Government et al took the election.
Plus Paul Ryan helping the dem win sure showed for all time what his agenda is.
All the GOPe and dyslectic eGOP need to wear those hats from the me2 woymin’s march.
It came up a couple of times on the stump: one in the Florida air hanger and one on the football field (Ohio?).
He said maybe I will, or maybe I will see what's been done is what I wanted to get done for the American people. Annnnd, clearly it's not done and not going to even be done by 2024. So, he'll run again. They all want two terms...
"...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.” ...He noted that a “hate factory of hating Trump all the time” is going to prevent Democrats from “seriously engaging with the issues.”
Thanks 11th_VA.
I think it will depend on the #NeverTRUMPers that voted for Gary Johnson! They better vote for TRUMP this time or we might lose Florida!
How republicans fare and how Trump fares are two different things.
Many independents and some democrats voted for Trump but will vote D in congress elections.
Especially when we run the same old tired losers we usually run.
I've been Republican since 1982 but I have given up on this party. There's only one reason I'll vote GOP in November...TRUMP.
If GOP candidates don't learn from PA 18 they're doomed.
Peter Thiel's right... Trump derangement syndrome is messing with democrat's little brains...
Well, he founded Palantir, and it is said that Palantir “can see into the future”, so I’d trust what he says
Continued effort in rooting out voter fraud would be good insurance in increasing the margin of win.
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