He’s focused as usual on HIMSELF and keeping his day job….
But….
There’s THESE Things….
A Democratic US House…..
Loss of women voters….
Loss of the American suburbs…..
The Media….
Robert Mueller….
Etc….
Starting Wednesday, Trump — who has already spent the past several weeks firing up crowds of supporters — will turn his full attention to his own 2020 reelection campaign, which aides and associates say will be close to all-consuming over the next two years.
“The reelect begins today,” said Brian Walsh, President of the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC: “It’s all in and all on the line.”
With divided government making further legislative accomplishments almost impossible, they predict Trump will leverage the full power and pomp of the White House behind his own political survival. And while Tuesday’s results may have been bruising, in historical terms they are far from a reelection death sentence: Both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama rebounded from even worse midterm results in their first terms to be comfortably reelected two years later.
Trump’s 2020 effort is poised to swing into gear almost immediately, with the RNC redirecting its infrastructure to assist the Trump reelect and its political director Chris Carr. RNC officials say that a massive midterm mobilization effort — in which the party invested over $275 million in its field, digital and data programs, and recruited hundreds of field staffers — was a dress rehearsal for the 2020 campaign. Once the Trump campaign, overseen by Parscale, melds with RNC, the result will be a nearly $400 million behemoth focused on the next election 726 days from Wednesday….
Trump presser to try to blunt the Democratic House win….
He speaks about compromise
The presser is gonna gonpast a hour….
Pelosi follows Trump’s presser with her own….
Trump is in big trouble now that Democrats control the House — and he knows it
Trump called a White House news conference Wednesday to insist he had won “almost a complete victory” in the midterms.
But among the first actions House Democrats took on election night was to confirm they will exercise their rights to demand the president’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service – a step Republicans refused to take.
Rep. Devin Nunes, who has furiously sought to undercut the Mueller probe, will surrender the chairmanship off the House Intelligence Committee. His Democratic replacement is former prosecutor Adam Schiff, a staunch Mueller defender.
That shift helps explain the president’s abrupt announcement via Twitter that he had fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
John Harwood….