While the betting markets have President Trump keeping his job for another 4 years….
A growing body of political pundits are seeing just the opposite…
There is a growing body of evidence that Donald Trump won’t be able to magically pull a rabbit out of a hat and win his election against Joe Biden…
Worst?
It it increasing appearing that Republicans could go down with Trump in losing the US Senate and NOT be able to get any gains in the US House either…
Among those who follow American politics and public policy most closely, the fight over control of the U.S. Senate is and will increasingly be the focus of this election. While a fight over Congressional majorities will never overshadow a presidential election among the public at large but, the implications of the Senate outcome are enormous.
Democrats retaining their House majority is practically a done deal. House Editor Dave Wasserman reports that now the chances are about the same of Republicans having a net loss of a few seats about the same as gaining a few.
Normally after a 40-seat loss, recapturing at least a few would seem almost inevitable, but as David’s May 6 overview points out, that is not necessarily the case this year.
Not long ago, GOP chances of maintaining their control of the Senate looked to be about two out of three, but Senate Editor Jessica Taylor’s reporting since March shows that Republican Senate majority is getting more precarious and now control appears to be a 50-50 proposition. Now with popular Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock challenging GOP incumbent Steve Daines in Montana, newly-appointed Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler mired in a horrific political situation and the possibility that Republicans could draw an exceedingly weak candidate in what should be a safe seat in Kansas (filing deadline June 1), among other problems adding to previous woes with incumbents Martha McSally in Arizona, Susan Collins in Maine, Cory Gardner in Colorado and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis all in races that are, at best, toss ups.
Combine those two Congressional situations with a recession that has effectively eliminated any tailwind that President Trump had been enjoying from a strong economy and it is hard to see his re-election prospects looking anything but more dire by the week. Today there is more than a one-in-three chance that Democrats will win a trifecta in November, the White House, the Senate and the House. The policy and governing implications are enormous.
Keep in mind that these outcomes are not independent of each other, a Trump victory would be more likely to be accompanied by retention of the Senate, a Trump defeat would raise the odds of Democrats taking over the Senate. This isn’t ‘coattails,” (I don’t believe in coattails), but the turnout dynamics, the issue agenda and priorities and the political environment that would exist to re-elect, or defeat Trump would also be in place for a Senate that is already teetering on the edge. Our system isn’t quite parliamentary but is getting increasingly more so, the linkage is greater, the ticket-splitting diminishing….
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Of course Republicans losing Congress and the Presidency would drop the reasonability of coming out the virus and economic criises in Joe Biden and the Democrats hands….
Remember the 2010 and 2018 midterm results?
Victories can be short term things….
Trumps old buddy ,Howard Stern , on whose show Trump used to regularly appear talking about “Pussy “and other such weighty topics, called on Trump to resign so they could go back to Mar a Lago and socialize.
As to Trumps supporters.Stern told them they were basically idiots .He said Trump actually despises them and wouldnt allow them in his hotel.
I think deep down Trump supporters know he as no use for them other than electorally. I mean, when did he ever travel to Ohio or Iowa or Alabama when he was splitting his time between his NYC penthouse and LA?
I know i have compared trump here many times to Andrew Jackson…a populist president to “the people”, but when he had a party for the people in the white house he was reviled by the rabble’s presence…that is trump…we all know he wouldn’t be caught dead associating with nearly anyone who votes for that, that would be beneath him…he has models, sex offenders, and rich folks to hob nob with, never would he spend time with the folks at his ralies.