President Trump must know that he is unlikely to be re-elected if the Wall is not built or in the process of some serious, extensive construction at the time he is running for re-election. So he has 18 months or so to really get this moving. How he gets there, I don’t care. No use in giving up now.
Republicans are not one issue voters. He WILL be reelected.
“President Trump must know that he is unlikely to be re-elected if the Wall is not built or in the process of some serious, extensive construction at the time he is running for re-election.”
How do you figure? In 2020, President Trump will be judged on various things by various voter blocks. A huge percentage of Republicans (upwards of 90%) will vote for him simply because he is not the Democrat. Virtually all of the rest of the Republicans, a majority of Independents, and some Democrat crossover voters will vote for him if he has A) not embarrassed them, B) kept a bunch of promises, and C) made a good effort to fight for issues they care about.
There may be some single issue voters whose single issue is the wall, and who will think he didn’t try hard enough, but not enough to matter.
Incumbent Presidents are rarely deprived of a second term. There was Jimmy Carter - but he sucked and was running against The Gipper. There was George Bush Sr., but he had to split the pro-business vote with Ross Perot who ran the most successful 3rd party challenge ever. All Clinton needed was a 36% plurality to win. Lyndon Johnson might have lost his bid for re-election had he run, but we’ll never know.
To look at it another way, just look at some of the retards that easily won re-election despite epic failures - Rapist-in-Chief Clinton, Jug Ears Obozo - to name a few.
President Trump is a shoe-in, wall or no wall.
Besides, if a wall doesn’t get built, why on earth would voters blame President Trump of all people? He’s the only one even trying!