Posted on 10/30/2020 7:37:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Look, instead, at the enthusiasm on the ground for Donald Trump and the economic optimism he represents.
When steel and auto jobs were shipped off to China, despair turned into opioid addiction.
But under Trump’s “America first” policies, steel furnaces restarted, manufacturing jobs began to come back, and oil and gas boomed. A giant ethane “cracker” plant sprang up outside Pittsburgh, with more to come in Ohio and, locals hope eventually, if the greenies can be stopped, in West Virginia.
This re-energized economy, albeit with a pandemic pause, accounts in large part for the loyalty many former Democratic voters feel toward the president today.
“I support Trump because he’s pro-life, he supports the right to bear arms and because he supports my livelihood, which is oil and natural gas,” says Ohioan Jason Laster, 44, a maintenance foreman for Southwestern Energy who joined the Trump Train in Weirton.
A Biden win next week is not the impression you get from the anemic turnouts for the former VP’s occasional forays out of the basement, where a dozen people stand dutifully inside social-distancing circles or sit in cars, feebly honking their horns.
lorida-based political consultant Albert Marko, a former pollster who advises hedge funds, also sees Trump repeating his 2016 victory.
He calculates the president will lose the popular vote but win the Electoral College with 306 votes to Biden’s 232, scooping up the top battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arizona.
Marko says the economy is the No. 1 issue for voters.
“The [Democrats’] strategy to only use COVID response against Trump’s economy was an absolute disaster … as people vote with their paycheck and rarely ideology.
President Trump made his case for his COVID-19 response in the final presidential debate
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Didn’t Trump rephrase rust beaters? It has been coined as some opportunity zone thing. Help me.
Rust beaters. Damn auto correct.
Rust belters. Double Damn.
Oye, Beltalowda!
I Don’t Make Predictions, But...
Townhall ^ | 10/30/2020 | Larry O’Connor
First, let’s understand what we are looking to achieve this Tuesday. This is all about 270 electoral college votes, nothing else. You know that. You’re smart. You don’t read Vox. But, I just wanted to reiterate... the national popular vote is literally meaningless, and by extension, national popular opinion polls that reflect the national presidential preference is absolutely meaningless. So ignore it.
We are about to engage in 51 elections—one in each state and the District of Columbia. The winner of those elections will determine the distribution of electors for the electoral college. The candidate who achieves 270 electoral votes will be president for the next four years.
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President Trump’s COVID response was spot on. It is democrap governors and mayors who are screwing it up to destroy America and Pelosi is pouring fuel on the fire by holding up relief for Americans and businesses affected by COVID. And the media is misleading America as to who is at fault to get lying Biden elected.
Please warn us when linking to NYT articles.
LOL. 8>)
“...When steel and auto jobs were shipped off to China...”
And we all know who did THAT.
BTW-I live in NE Ohio which is all about steel and auto mfg.
It was desolate here. I began my working ‘career’ about that time and the first real ‘job’ I had after college was in-sales. My boss, from Richmond Va., constantly beat me up because I couldn’t get any sales in Youngstown. So, when he visited Ohio, I took him to Youngstown and I had the Billy Joel tune ‘ALLENTOWN’ blasting on the car stereo.
Driving into Youngstown, I went past all the mills that were shut down. He finally said, ‘I get it, now’... and that’s when I told him he could get off my back!!
We’re taking Minnesota too (the Rat Socialists can keep Walz, Ellison and Omar).
Cool story.
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