Posted on 06/19/2019 6:05:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to news stories, the Trump campaign fired pollsters who allegedly leaked polling results that show President Trump performing poorly against Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in battleground states.
Regardless of the accuracy of the story, what can polling really tell us now?
At this time in 2015, polls were showing Hillary Clinton 17 points ahead of Donald Trump.
According to Gallup, Ronald Reagan's approval rating was about the same as President Trump's at the same time into his presidency.
In November 1984, a year and a half later, Reagan won a historic landslide victory, winning 49 of 50 states, losing only Walter Mondale's home state of Minnesota.
Turning around the ship of state is not an easy affair, and it takes time.
What happens in November 2020 will reflect three things: the skill with which respective candidates run their campaigns; the extent to which their message resonates; and what actually happens between now and then on the economic, social and international fronts.
Consider Reagan's famous question that propelled him to an upset victory in 1980 and a landslide victory in 1984.
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
How do we measure this?
I use my three criteria: the Constitution, Christianity and Capitalism.
On all three fronts, Donald Trump is making America great again.
The Supreme Court now has a solid conservative majority with the addition of Trump nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Overall, 107 Trump court nominees have been confirmed, including 40 appeals court nominees.
As a result of a more solidly conservative judicial front, President Trump has improved the environment friendly to the Christian values that we need to restore our respect for life and family.
Aggressive moves in the states to enact anti-abortion laws increase the chances of this vital issue being revisited in the nation's now more conservative high court.
Most recently, new Trump administration rules bring major new constraints on conducting research on fetal tissue using federal funds.
And regarding the third "C," capitalism, Harvard economist Robert Barro estimates that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act "added 1.1% per year to United States' GDP growth rate for 2018-19." This is a boost in growth almost a third over the average growth rate in the Obama years.
Optimism among the nation's small businesses is surging, according to the most recent National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Optimism Index.
Record-low unemployment among Hispanics and blacks could be paying political dividends for this president.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows President Trump's approval at 32 percent among Hispanics and 17 percent among blacks. Compared with 29 percent of Hispanics and 8 percent of blacks who voted for Trump in 2016, this could be a game changer favoring President Trump in 2020.
President Trump's courage to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has changed the face of the Middle East, and potentially the world, for the better
Now a historic U.S.-sponsored meeting is scheduled in Bahrain, where Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar will join with the U.S. to focus on capitalism and prosperity as the keys to Middle East peace rather than the political dead ends of the past.
None of these achievements would be imaginable without Donald Trump's conviction that American greatness is unique and based in key principles rooted in my three Cs -- the Constitution, Christianity and Capitalism.
Even the market-opening trade demands toward China, which have elicited criticism in some circles, are driven by these principles. Success will make everyone, including China, better off.
Donald Trump, the most unconventional president in American history, is delivering, and the dividends are starting to flow.
Americans will face a clear choice in 2020 between individual responsibility and freedom or, alternatively, collectivism and tyranny.
I anticipate a Donald Trump landslide in 2020 not seen since Ronald Reagan.
Again I was stuck watching the hacks on CBS This Morning try their best to lie about the rally. These folks really are idiots. My wife and I laughed out loud at their dripping bias and fake reports. Not a single, not a single mention of ALL the many accomplishments.
“”” What happens in November 2020 will reflect three things: the skill with which respective candidates run their campaigns; the extent to which their message resonates; and what actually happens between now and then on the economic, social and international fronts. “””
He missed a fourth thing; Voter/election fraud
“According to news stories,”
Should the first hint the following crap was just made up.
NYS just registered hundreds of thousands of new Dem voters this week by providing ILLEGAL aliens drivers licenses - the ONLY form of ID required to vote.
Yep, just like "Some are saying"
Trump has certainly earned a Reagan landslide IMHO.
He is unlikely to get one for the following reasons.
- The country has become far more Liberal since the 80’s.
- Democrats suffering from TDS are really, really deranged and are willing to crawl over two acres of broken glass to go and vote against him.
- In Democrat-controlled states and counties, all brakes are off in regards to voter fraud.
- The Dem Platform is going to contain a huge smorgasbord of Santa Claus programs, including student loan forgiveness, which will persuade armies of lemmings to get off the couch and go vote.
I think Trump will win but it will be much closer than any of us would want.
These are nothing like the days of Solomon.
Dear God, Guide and protect our president, and GIVE HIM THE BALLS OF ELIJAH!
Of all the President’s of my lifetime that I have memory of (I’m late 40s) he is the best. I’ve never seen a President fulfill or try to fulfill so many of his campaign promises.
The only area where he would get an F from me is in the deficit and debt. However, from Reagan to Trump only Clinton would would have gotten anything better than an F in that area.
You'd never know that talking to the Verruca Salts in FR...
Never underestimate the left killing their own prosperity on the altar of baby killing and lbtqrsvpabc.
Voter fraud destroyed Venezuela.
It cannot be fought. Soros will likely destroy America by supporting AGs who protect voter fraud.
Honestly, we are indeed doomed. Legalized fraud is bullet proof.
Unless the Soroses face a military firing squad soon, America is doomed.
I believe we have seen the last of “landslide victories” in general elections. The country is too divided and too many people vote according to what is good for them and not what is good for the country.
Too many people now think of ourselves as a democracy. That's why you have these idiotic movements such as to eliminate the electoral college and go to a popular national vote - which surely has our founders spinning in their graves.
Not many people realize that up until the early 20th century, we did not directly elect our senators either. This used to be a function of the state legislatures.
Considering the overall product of directly elected senators since, this was not necessarily a good move.
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