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Well we saw how unpopular those guys were in the 2016 primary.
GOP would be doomed without Trump.
In fact if Trump didn't hold so many midterm rallies, GOP would have lost the Senate easily.
And in 2020 Trump is going to hold an extreme amount of rallies.
Do you think Republicans lost the Arizona and Nevada Senate races because Trump didn't hold enough rallies in those states? Or did McSally and Heller not link themselves closely enough to the president? Maybe we can even say if Hugin was more supportive of Trump, he could have flipped the New Jersey Senate seat.
While it's not at all typical for any President to have such high popularity ratings this soon in a first term, they are possible.
G.W. Bush's ratings went through the roof when he started the Iraq war going into his second year, and they remained high into 2004.
Most presidents who have done well end up with ratings in the high 70s and higher in their last year to 18 months of their presidency. Popularity ratings of 80% aren't uncommon.
But to get there, all those other presidents had to hit a popularity mark of over 50% once or twice at least earlier. It seems once half of the voters approve of a president, the highest hurdle has been cleared. A president's popularity can take a big fall afterward, but it will tend to rise again most of the time.
Trump has never exceeded 45% so far. Instead of worrying about 75%, he should be trying to work to boost his ratings to 50% first. At 40-some per cent, he won't ever win re-election.
Well we saw how unpopular those guys were in the 2016 primary.
GOP would be doomed without Trump.
In fact if Trump didn't hold so many midterm rallies, GOP would have lost the Senate easily.
And in 2020 Trump is going to hold an extreme amount of rallies.
So far, all the rallies have done is solidify his base. Trump needs to win more voters if he wants to win in 2020. The base he has isn't nearly big enough to do it by themselves.
That's a pretty funny statement considering that Trump's smear campaign against Mueller has worked fairly well. So we can also say that if Trump hadn't been putting his thumb on the scale, perhaps his approval rating would be about 20%.
The fact Trump won the Senate despite Mueller is amazing too when you compare it to Obama's midterms.
The Democrats were heavily exposed this year. Next election the Republicans will be over exposed. The Republicans know this, and they know that Trump drives negative numbers and the Republican senate could get hammered. Trump as president essentially controls the RNC at this time, so opposition will need a work-around. Look to see if there are any challengers for the nomination, the real Republicans will need to do something drastic to save the party from further damage.
If Trump loses any large portion of big donor class (it appears he has lost the Kochs for the time being) they will fund challengers through their PACS and try to knock him out of the box.
Because if a white person isn't self-loathing for their whiteness, they are playing "the victim card."
Baizou logic.
We’re not “self loathing for our whiteness”. We simply despise the Republican Party’s use of racial dog whistles to appeal to blatant racism. Trump doubled down, trading the dog whistle for a bullhorn. The result was an increase in the flight of white college grads from the GOP and the loss of America’s suburbs.
When a conservative accuses a white Democrat of “self loathing” it’s an admission that they are voting based upon white identity and that they can’t conceive how a white man could vote another way. They’re not making a justification of their vote based upon policy, but upon race. If that isn’t an admission of their own racism, what is?
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