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NY Slimes: How Trump Lost Re-election in 2020
NY Slimes ^ | July 29, 2018 | David Leonhardt

Posted on 07/29/2018 7:12:05 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Last week, my colleague Bret Stephens imagined a news article on the morning after President Trump’s re-election. Today, I imagine a different outcome.

In the end, it was a lot simpler than it often seemed.

Donald J. Trump, who spent much of the past four years as a historically unpopular president, lost his bid for re-election Tuesday. His approval rating hasn’t approached 50 percent since he took office, and neither did his share of the vote this year.

In an era of deep national anxiety — with stagnant wages, rickety health insurance and aggressive challenges from China and Russia — voters punished an incumbent president who failed on his central promise: “I alone can fix it.”

Since he rode down the Trump Tower escalator to announce his candidacy five years ago, Trump has frequently looked like a man for whom the normal rules of politics did not apply. He won a shocking upset in 2016, which lent him an aura of invincibility. Pundits started to doubt much of what they had previously believed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; fakenews; futurefakenews; timemachine; timetravel; trump; trump2020
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The version where Trump won: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/trump-re-election-2020.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
1 posted on 07/29/2018 7:12:05 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

What kind of drivel is this? It doesn’t even make any sense.


2 posted on 07/29/2018 7:22:06 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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To: EdnaMode

Rabid delusional hatred. It’s all they’ve got.


3 posted on 07/29/2018 7:22:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: EdnaMode

NYT: “All the fake news that they see fit to print.”


4 posted on 07/29/2018 7:23:04 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: EdnaMode

NYT in October 2016:

Why Hillary would win with 330 EV’s and Trump has no chance.


5 posted on 07/29/2018 7:25:31 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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To: EdnaMode

“...the help from Russia...”

Pure TDS.


6 posted on 07/29/2018 7:26:05 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: EdnaMode

The leftist has Fauxcohantas, of all people, beating Trump.


7 posted on 07/29/2018 7:28:00 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: EdnaMode

These people are crazy:

Marty

Pacific Northwest|20m ago
When will Dems learn that winning the presidency is not about policy, personality, left vs center, establishment vs “outsider”, or any other aspect of a given candidate? When will they learn it’s not about the candidate at all? It’s about the voters, and not their numbers (we clearly have more of them than does the GOP) but their location (location, location). Why not take some of the bazillion dollars that it costs to run a presidential campaign, and use it to put some of our voters where they need to be? Imagine, those 5 million “extra” California voters distributed across Mich, Ohio, Fla, NC, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania? Find voters who can afford to temporarily relocate (retired, otherwise not working or with kids in school), fund the costs of their move, and never again lose a presidential election.


8 posted on 07/29/2018 7:28:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. Are they going to bus them all over the country?


9 posted on 07/29/2018 7:30:00 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
"How Trump Lost Re-election in 2020"

...and How it Led to the Second Great Depression.
10 posted on 07/29/2018 7:31:00 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left admits once again that they want to steal an election.


11 posted on 07/29/2018 7:31:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: EdnaMode

In exactly the same way Trump lost the election in 2016.

Jeez!

Mark


12 posted on 07/29/2018 7:34:43 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: EdnaMode
feh...
13 posted on 07/29/2018 7:35:49 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: EdnaMode

TDS is a real thing. I suspect that this author has been in for treatments.


14 posted on 07/29/2018 7:37:23 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: EdnaMode

More leftist delusional fantasy in progress.

It’s the only way they can cope day to day.


15 posted on 07/29/2018 7:37:53 PM PDT by TADSLOS (If YouÂ’re Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right...)
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To: EdnaMode

Someone else is already ahead of them.

MAGA 2020 & Beyond - a pro-Trump scifi anthology
https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-2020-Beyond-Milo-Yiannopoulos-ebook/dp/B075YF99P4


16 posted on 07/29/2018 7:37:58 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: jospehm20

The weirdest one was the website that ran for weeks pretending Clinton won.


17 posted on 07/29/2018 7:38:25 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

They put a lot of time and effort into being butt-hurt over an election loss. I read today that they even go to therapists for treating their butt-hurt.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/trump-derangement-syndrome-therapy/


18 posted on 07/29/2018 7:46:26 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: EdnaMode
Donald J. Trump, who spent much of the past four years as a historically unpopular president

I think I see the problem, they think their opinion counts,
19 posted on 07/29/2018 7:47:34 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: tbw2

I think that’s still around. Can’t remember the name of it, though.


20 posted on 07/29/2018 7:48:33 PM PDT by philippa
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