This time?
Donald Trump…The person?
Is well known to all…
This time?
Donald Trump has a history….
This time?
People know his sidewalk act…
Things won’t be a surprise….
His poll numbers show THAT….
As he rode down that escalator in June 2015, it felt like a lark, a curiosity, just another staged television spectacle. At most, many assumed that Donald J. Trump’s candidacy would be a sideshow, sure to be entertaining but hardly decisive.
Four years later, as President Trump kicks off his campaign for a second term on Tuesday with an eardrum-pounding, packed-to-the-rafters rally in Florida, no one doubts that he is the dominant force in the arena today, the one defining the national conversation as no president has done in generations.
But the coming election is shaping up as a test — not just of the man but of his country. Was Mr. Trump’s victory the last time around a historical fluke or a genuine reflection of America in the modern age? Will the populist surge that lifted him to the White House run its course or will it further transform a nation and its capital in ways that will outlast his presidency? What kind of country do Americans really want at this point?
Whatever voters thought about Mr. Trump in 2016, they have now had more than enough time to take their measure of him, and their judgment arguably will say more about the mood of the world’s last superpower than whatever roll-the-dice decision may have been made last time. Mr. Trump promised to blow up the system; voters will decide if more disruption is still needed.
“You go from what was probably a pretty low-stakes election to a high-stakes one,” said Brendan Buck, a former counselor to Paul D. Ryan, the last Republican speaker of the House. “When there were so many people who didn’t think he was going to win, who didn’t think it was even possible, your vote didn’t seem as important. That today has totally shifted.”…
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Mr. Trump remains more vulnerable than many presidents heading into a re-election year. Even with a strong economy, he is the only president in the history of polling who has never once, not for a single day, earned the support of a majority of Americans surveyed by Gallup. His own internal polls this spring showed him losing badly in key states, prompting him to first deny their existence and later to fire some of his pollsters.
Mr. Trump has never expanded his support beyond the people who elected him — and never really tried. He has remained focused intently on retaining the support of his base to the exclusion of reaching out to those who have opposed him. Whether by inclination or calculation, it is a strategy for a divided era when Americans are less interested in getting along…..
image…the nationalhearld.com
The clouds keep rolling in…..
The principal newspaper in Orlando, Fla., where the president is set to kick off his reelection bid Tuesday, has already announced its 2020 White House endorsement: anyone but Donald Trump.
“We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump,” the editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel announced Tuesday, hours before Trump is set to appear in the city’s Amway Center to launch his campaign for a second term.
“Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent. Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump,” the editorial board wrote.
“After 2½ years we’ve seen enough. Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.”….
More…
For those who think polling right now against Trump don’t count?
Seems like them poll numbers just cost Donald Trump some BIG money….
President Trump has lost the financial support of one of his biggest backers in 2016: the Mercers, Vanity Fair reports.
“With their ties to Steve Bannon, Breitbart, and Cambridge Analytica, Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah were superstars last cycle. According to half a dozen sources familiar with the reclusive family’s political activities, the Mercers have drastically curtailed their political donations in recent months and will likely not play a significant role in 2020.”
Said one insider: “It’s like they’ve disappeared.”
Said another: “Crickets. They’re gone.”
Politicalwire….
You have no evidence whatsoever for that assertion ,nor does your blurb mention that the Mercer’s are no longer supporting Trump financially because of his poll numbers.
A glaring example of “fake news.”
..from the Vanityfair piece Jack….
…’To judge from the recent leak of its internal poll numbers, Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign has a lot of ground to make up—and Trump family members have already been sounding alarms that Republican mega donors aren’t stepping up to close the gap…’….
Ha ha!
That’s your “evidence?”
That’s merely the intro to the article.It says nothing about the Mercer’s reasons for no longer financially supporting Trump.
Amusingly ,you are using Trumplike”reasoning “ to reach your unwattanted conclusion.
I have mentioned before that your posts frequently have Trumplike characteristics and you daily buttress my faith in my belief.
Say what u want….
The reference to polling and Trump falling in approval ARE THERE….
Meanwhile,the crowd of Republicans in Orlando can’t wait for the chance to hear..
The Chaos
The Division
The Schoolyard Insults
The Self Aggrandizement from their Leader
The Corruption and most importantly,
The Lies
Conservative “values”
Lemmings….