Posted on 08/28/2019 5:18:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Trump calls them suppression polls, the endless surveys the liberal media puts out there showing how the support for this administration is in the toilet. Its meant to demoralize his base. It didnt work in 2016 and it wont work in 2020. The polls were wrong. Right now, 2020 general election polling is trash. Its worthless. Its way too early. Everyone knows thatand even some Democrats would admit that theyre not going to win by a nine-point of double-digit margin next year. If anything, the media just reminds Trump voters that they need to vote next year. In the meantime, the Democratic Party has a three-way race at the top for the 2020 nomination between former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders. There are at least a dozen more running and stillanything can happen. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had a strong showing in the first round of debates. She gained attention, and then some looked at her record. She has dropped 12 points in the latest Democratic candidate polls.
Biden has been bashed; hes a gaffe machine right now. President Obamas record was also torched during the second rounds of debates on CNN, which raised eyebrows. Beating up the most popular Democrat in recent memory will get you the nomination? Nope. As the Left continues to slash, punch, stab, and shoot one another in the primaries, the Trump White House has been running what is essentially a general election campaign. The war chests are being stuffed, the RNC is raking in cash, and hes holding rallies in key swing states. Yes, this is what Obama did in 2012and Democrats know it. Members of the Democratic National Committee spoke with The Daily Beast who voiced their concerns. Panic could be aptly applied to what they said, especially about how theres a feeling that Trump is beating them on all fronts. Theres also some frustration about chair Tom Perez continuing to ignore Rust Belt voters. Overall, its this fear that the Trump team is already reaching swing voters, while the Democrats are just content with their base (via Daily Beast):
Jim Zogby, who co-chairs the DNCs ethnic counsel, a group that represents people across different ethnic, racial, national origin, and religious identities, says he has been pushing Perez and other party leaders to expand its outreach to voters in the same areas that Trump successfully captured: Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, anda Democratic sore spot in post-2016 politicsWisconsin. But that outreach to the committee has fallen on deaf ears. In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, if we do events in those states that focuses on everyone else but them, that breeds resentment, Zogby said. Thats why [former Vice President Joe] Biden and [Sen.] Bernie [Sanders I-VT] do well, because they talk to those folks. Zogby was specifically referencing voters from Irish, Italian, Polish, Eastern Central European, Arab, and Armenian-American communities highly concentrated in the Midwest. I am frustrated beyond belief at the sheer neglect of the constituencies I represent, he added. Zogbys chief concernraised by several other current DNC members who spoke with The Daily Beastis that the Trump campaign is already reaching swing voters while the Democratic Party is overwhelmingly focused on expanding their existing base. [ ] "Donald Trump is in general election mode while were still in primary mode. We see it in Ohio, David Pepper, who chairs the states Democratic Party said. Hes absolutely carpet-bombing Ohio online. Were doing our best to respond. [ ] a DNC official directly familiar with battleground states efforts suggested all the messaging hasnt trickled down to much action on the ground level yet. Theres some deep concerns brewing under the surface. Nothing thats spilled into the public yet, the member said. Wheres all the support? They keep talking about the calories coming. People generally are feeling Trump is beating us on all fronts right now. The national partys fundraising woes continue to present a problem when up against the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaigns significant advantage, multiple members said. The DNC is cash-strapped right now, one member said plainly. In June, the Republican National Committee more than doubled the DNCs fundraising haul, totaling $20.7 million to $8.5 million, respectively.
Now, thats good news, but Trump and his team cannot let up. Keep doing what youre doing. Democrats are motivated. They want to boot him from office. Yet, the GOP has an awesome opportunity to define the Democratic Party and their 2020 nominee eons before they can. Given the debates thus far, theyre a party that supports gun confiscation, more taxes, more regulations, taxpayer-funded abortion virtually up until the moment of birth, health care for illegal aliens, open borders, and the destruction of private health insurance; thats the only way that Medicare for All can work. The issue where they dominated the GOP in terms of trust with votershealth carecould have been a lethal tool in the 2020 messaging wars. Now, thats dead. Its a debate about whether to nuke 100+ million employer-based health plans now or later, with the added bonus of instituting the mother of all tax increases for the middle class to help pay for it. Trump has 3+ million jobs, economic growth, bigger paychecks, lower taxes, less regulation, and small business and consumer confidence levels reaching their highest marks in years. Its not a hard choice next year.
So where have you been? How clueless are you at this point?
So what you are saying is that you didn't recognize Trump as a transformation political figure in 2016? He just wasn't Hilary? Really? Wow.
Please allow me to further explain:
In 2008 and 2012, I drug myself to the polls, held my nose and voted for the Republican nominee.
In 2016, I was certainly hopeful that "the Donald" would, in fact, be transformational. He was saying all the right things, but he didn't have a track record as a politician.
I didn't have to hold my nose to vote for Mr. Trump. In fact, I was excited to vote for him. However, I still think that I was more motivated by my hate for Hillary than my excitement for Mr. Trump.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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