Posted on 07/19/2020 4:39:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Usually, a president who delivered seven million new jobs and a historically low unemployment rate can run for re-election on his economic program. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the economy. Thus, President Trump’s masterful stewardship of the economy is no longer apparent as Americans struggle to deal with economic lockdowns, virus mandates, and high unemployment.
As the nation returns to lockdown mode again with an increase in virus numbers, economic progress will be curtailed. This issue is no longer the president’s best way to win re-election.
With his response to Covid-19 being continually pummeled by the media, polls show the American people are giving the president poor grades. In fact, polls consistently show the president running behind former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee.
How can President Trump change the narrative? He made one good move by shaking up his campaign staff. However, the real answer involves making law and order the central issue of his re-election.
Americans do not like to see lawlessness on their streets; however, that has been the situation across the country since the killing of an African American, George Floyd, by a white Minneapolis police officer on May 25. For almost two months, our nation has been embroiled in unprecedented turmoil. The street violence in major American cities is worse than anything experienced in the anti-Vietnam War protests of the late 1960s.
It is especially disturbing that the number of attacks against law enforcement has skyrocketed. This has been coupled with ludicrous efforts to disband or defund police departments. In cities such as Seattle, Minneapolis and New York, police officers have been given extraordinarily little support by mayoral administrations.
There has been a disturbing attitude of hostility toward police departments. As the working environment for police officers deteriorates, police officers have started to retreat from danger zones, and many are just leaving the profession and retiring from their departments.
It is no surprise that the morale of police officers has become incredibly low. In this environment, it will become nearly impossible to recruit new officers.
Every day, Americans see images of protesters attacking police officers. One recent attack was particularly egregious. In New York City, protesters near the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge attacked police officers, severely injuring several of them. One of the attackers used a cane to pummel a police officer. Incredibly, after being arrested, the alleged assailant was quickly released from jail with no bail.
In recent weeks, New York City has seen a sharp increase in crime. Part of the problem is that the New York Police Department (NYPD) is not allowed to fight back against the criminals. Their plainclothes division, which focused on anti-crime measures, was disbanded. To make matters worse, $1 billion was stripped away from the NYPD and given to social programs that focus on youngsters.
The new strategy will be doomed to failure. A similar strategy was developed in New Orleans to withhold funding for new classes of police recruits and to fund a variety of social programs called “NOLA for Life.” The lack of police officers led to crime-response times soaring and more crimes going unsolved. New York will experience similar problems and crime will only increase.
Other major American cities have suffered enormous increases in crime. Citizens in Chicago must deal with a multitude of shootings and murders every weekend. The victims have included young children. At a news conference this week, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot a “derelict” for not protecting her citizens. Lightfoot fired back, calling McEnany a “Karen,” which is a racial slur against white women. This egregious name-calling will not be able to obscure the mayor’s failure to provide basic security to the people of Chicago.
On American streets, criminals are not just attacking innocent children and police officers. Criminals are also destroying historic monuments and Catholic statues, as well as defacing churches and businesses. The goal is to use the street chaos along with the Covid-19 hysteria to make Americans uncomfortable with voting and accept mail-in ballots in November.
The Democrats are using every possible tactic to encourage Americans to turn against President Trump. In response, the president’s strategy should be to focus on the issue of law and order and frame the presidential choice as one between lawlessness and total pandemonium.
These efforts were bolstered this week when the president received the endorsement of the National Association of Police Officers (NAPO), which represents 241,000 members. These officers voted for President Trump by a whopping two-thirds margin. In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the NAPO endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket, so the switch to President Trump was incredibly significant.
For this year’s endorsement, Biden did not even address the group. He knows that he has extremely limited support from the police in this election. Not only has he claimed that he would “absolutely” support withdrawing funding from police, but he also called them “the enemy.” In a July 8 online interview, Biden said, “The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood: it's like the military invading. They don't know anybody; they become the enemy; they’re supposed to be protecting these people.”
Sadly, Biden does not appreciate that every day, police officers risk their lives to “protect and serve” the American people. They perform thankless jobs for little pay but undergo tremendous abuse and scrutiny.
Solely on this issue, President Trump can win the election. Most Americans support their police officers and want law and order restored in the country. Biden is out of step with most Americans on a critically important matter. The only candidate who will restore law and order to America is President Donald Trump. If Americans come to fully understand this issue, he will win re-election in November.
As far as I’m concerned, the Democrats are on the wrong side of the economy, law and order, the epidemic, and foreign trade. If the Republicans can’t sell that to the public, then everything can go to hell.
One thing mothers are about is security.
I believe security (childrens’ safety) will outweigh most other SJW/emo-driven choices for mother voters. It’s a core female program feature. IMO, it will be a major election factor.
My one concern about this election is how well young voters will participate. Generally, they are more talk than action when it comes to voting. This time, though, there seems to be an awful lot of political energy out there.
Hopefully, they will tire themselves out and just sleep through Nov. 3rd.
Trump WILL WIN in a Landslide
WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump must reach and convince mother voters.
That’s significantly different than generalized women voters. As is black women voters, retired woman voters, college woman voters...
A landslide which has never been seen.
Even criminals don’t like to be robbed and looted!
One issue is not going to win, certainly not this one. The overwhelming majority of people are not impacted by the demonstrations and the violence. They are impacted by Covid and the economy literally every day. Concentrate on the economy, if you want to concentrate on only one issue, and hope that keeps improving.
“...how well young voters will participate.”
They likely won’t be at college, so the leftist indoctrination tools rampant there may not be in play this time. And they’ve been getting much more parental exposure. And they’re witnessing tyrannical leftist rule in action, affecting them directly.
D’rat’s “Vote by mail” push is about getting these at-home youth to vote (and vote D) as much as anything else.
That’s gonna depend on whether Trump is able to bust is out of COVID jail. That is the more pressing issue to most people I talk to. Ditching Fauci is pretty much an imperative at this point. We want to see Trump do more than just tweet slogans.
So the President must just pander to mothers? What about the rest of the country?
“So the President must just pander to mothers?”
Did I say that? No.
That question is an example of The Straw Man Fallacy. Try again.
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-logical-fallacies
Plus, they’ll probably get paid...
It’s already part of his ad campaign. On another note, moms probably already have a semblance of an idea of what’s going on at these “peaceful protests”:
“Honey, why is there spray paint all over the new jeans and sneakers I bought you last week?”
“Darling, why do your clothes smell like smoke?”
“Sweetheart, your friend called yesterday and wanted to know if you had been released yet. What did he mean?”
Absolutely unbelievable and sickening that people are going to let this happen, again.
Agree with this thread plus he needs schools to reopen safely. But that looks doubtful at this time. Mothers worried about their kids getting the virus will go for a delay with media assistance.
Law and order is the message for the presidency. What is the message for the house?
Trump needs to take control of the virus response. Pence is floundering while Fauci and the CDC continue to go rogue.
Esp of the stuff they have stolen.
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