Posted on 10/14/2017 7:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said Saturday that President Trump will "win with 400 electoral votes in 2020," following reports that he had lost faith in the president's ability to complete his current term.
"The populist, nationalist, conservative revolt that's going on, that drove Donald Trump to victory, that drove Judge [Roy] Moore to victory, that will drive 15 candidates to victory in 2018, and I hate to break it Graydon Carter and the good folks at Vanity Fair, but yes, President Trump is not only going to finish this term, he's going to win with 400 electoral votes in 2020," Bannon said during a speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington.
Bannon reportedly said several months ago that Trump only has a 30 percent chance of finishing his current term, a source told Vanity Fair, who said the president also did not know the function of the 25th Amendment, which allows a majority of the Cabinet to vote for the president to be removed from office.
Bannon returned to the far-right Breitbart News outlet after leaving the White House in August. The former Trump strategist said he left his post to be a "wingman outside" the White House for Trump to help advance the president's agenda.
In his speech Saturday, Bannon also committed that he would "get to the progressive Democrats," but said that "right now it's a season of war against the GOP establishment."
Bannon laid out his plans to back challengers to establishment Republicans in Congress for the 2018 midterm elections in an interview earlier this week.
"There's a coalition coming together that is going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz," Bannon told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Monday.
Bannon rallied for former judge Roy Moore in Alabama's Senate GOP runoff last month. Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange, who was endorsed by Trump and congressional Republicans.
Trump surpassed the necessary 270 electoral votes in the Electoral College to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Trump won 304 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 227.
Anyone can build production equipment with or without servos.
>> Karl Rove hates Bannon <<
Apparently Prince Jared also hates Steve.
But what differece, at this point, does it make?
>> We click on the links and can read the article he is linking to <<
Actually READ the articles? You must not realize that such action is seriously frowned upon around here.
(Headlines are good enough.)
>> Being a WISE-ASS has consequences. <<
Well, sure. But insulting somebody’s wife and saying his father conspired to kill JFK also can have consequences.
“Well, sure. But insulting somebody’s wife and saying his father conspired to kill JFK also can have consequences.”
To the point of nearly installing Hillary as president?
Trust me, Trump has the money to endure a Hillary presidency without much problem - likely by leaving the country. Obviously very few others have his options.
Cruz should have figured out a way to keep his punishment to Trump (or Trump’s family, at most)...maybe do what Corker did and go after him AFTER he won.
>> Besides with robots coming to take a ton of jobs, no one will be concerned about China anymore <<
Yep, and automation is absolutely nothing new. If I recall correctly, it has ALREADY displaced more USA jobs than have gone to China.
...make that after the ELECTION, since few people expected Trump to actually win.
>> To the point of nearly installing Hillary as president? <<
Sure. Have you forgotten about a little thing called human nature? You keep insulting my family members long enough and there’s really no telling what kind of destructive behavior you might provoke from me.
(I guess you might call it Dueling By Other Means.)
Not saying it’s good or bad — just a fact of life.
Agree with you on that, when you do attack as Trump did, you do risk responses that are not always well-contained.
...but I still have difficulty getting over it, considering the stakes for the country.
“I was only pointing out the fact that Cruz cost Trump MILLIONS OF VOTES, possibly enough to make up for California...by not endorsing Trump.”
Cruz allowed his emotions to get in the way of doing the right thing and endorsing Trump at the convention, but he eventually recanted.
On 9/23/2016, Cruz endorsed Trump:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/ted-cruz-endorses-donald-trump/index.html
“A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.”
Of course, most of us Cruz supporters had already made up our minds to vote for Trump. Trump was always my number 2 choice. But I can see now that he was the best candidate from the start.
At first, as the result of being burned over and over by politicians in the past, I found it difficult to be enthusiastic for someone who did not have a proven track record. Trump surprised me by not being the typical politician who moves more “centrist” (aka left) after getting the nomination. And that boosted my confidence in him greatly. Now we see he is a man of his word, doing what is right in the face of vicious opposition and betrayal.
So many politicians make empty promises on the campaign trail, only to break them once they’re elected. Cruz was an exception to that rule. Trump is also.
Cruz was wrong about TPP and about the Constitutionality of banning Muslim immigrants. He also made some very foolish choices during the presidential primaries, such as insulting Trump when Trump suggested the possibility of Cruz being his Vice President.
Trump has been on the right track on almost everything. And the rare cases where he has made mistakes, he has adapted and corrected them.
I don’t agree with you. I”ve read of manufacturing jobs coming back.
I think you have very, very dark glasses on.
Robotism is overhyped, too.
Thanks, but pretty tepid ‘endorsement’...and people remember the Convention, simply because it was the convention.
“pretty tepid ‘endorsement’”
Perhaps, but in that tight election, it might have turned enough voters to make the difference. We can’t know for sure. I was as upset as anyone over his choice not to endorse Trump at the convention. That was stupid. But he recanted. And Trump won. And Cruz is supporting Trump’s agenda, which turns out to be a conservative agenda just as he said it would be. And the opposite of what Cruz predicted.
Our legislature if full of Democrats and Democrats posing as Republicans, all of which push baby-killing abortion, paying for this with tax dollars, allowing Planned Parenthood to sell the body parts of murdered babies to researchers, and penalizing anyone who speaks out against this with punishments up to and including imprisonment.
They also promote sexual perversion. They let homosexuals be foster parents and adopt children who are then at minimum subject to the obscenity of their “parents’” perversion but more likely other types of abuse. And they want to punish those who oppose this with fines, job loss, destroying private businesses, and even jail.
Death threats against people who oppose these things are common.
We have a small number of legislators who stand up for conservative principles when their vote actually counts. Cruz is one of them.
But unfortunately we have some FOOLS on this forum who just can’t stop bashing one of the few people who can be counted on to do the right thing when it comes time to vote.
It’s no better than the hand-wringers who whine about whether something Trump says is polite. When we can put an end to the tyrannical socialism, the forcing of perversion on society, the government approved murder of babies, then I’m interested in discussions about politeness, manners, and civility. The left deserves none of those things. And, we know from experience they don’t work.
If you think you can do better than Cruz, then run for office and show us. Otherwise stop insulting Cruz, unless you want to be called out for it. You are becoming nothing more than a foot soldier who, because of a personal grudge, decides to direct his weapon at a fellow soldier in a fox hole in the muddle of a battle. That’s not even friendly fire. It’s dereliction of duty. Stop it.
I would almost bet $100 that the dems nominate Hillary again
“A source said...” is not Steve Bannon saying anything.
You implied Cruz endorsed Hillary, and that is a falsehood. If he did so, he’d have been the top target for Trump and Bannon to remove. He’s not.
“You implied Cruz endorsed Hillary, and that is a falsehood.”
Anyone who heard him at the Convention was convinced that he didn’t want Trump.
...so who was left? Gary Johnson?
Has President Trump endorsed Sen. Cruz’s opponent since you claim he helped to elect Hillary ?
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