Election Forecast: Trump, Senate GOP in trouble

There's a reason the Tweeter in Chief dished out a pro-Confederate Flag anti-Bubba Wallace missive earlier today.

Trump rips NASCAR for banning Confederate flag and targets Black driver Bubba Wallace

• President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at NASCAR’s only Black cup series driver and appeared to criticize the auto-racing league’s decision to ban the Confederate flag from its events and properties.
• Trump asked in a tweet if Bubba Wallace has “apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX?”
• “That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!” the president added in a reference to NASCAR’s move last month to prohibit displaying the Confederate battle flag from all events and properties.

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Trump knows he needs the racists to come out in force to win on Election Day. Check out the trouble he and his Party are in.

POLITICO's Election Forecast: Trump, Senate GOP in trouble - POLITICO

The signs are apparent: Trump’s campaign is running ads in states he won handily in 2016, like Georgia and Ohio. Senate Republicans aren’t just playing defense in vulnerable seats in states like Colorado, Maine and North Carolina — they’re also retrenching in places like Iowa and Montana.

....Trump’s poll numbers on the coronavirus and the civil unrest regarding racial injustice are consistently underwater, suggesting Americans believe he has failed to lead on the two dominant issues facing the country.

It could all add up to a potentially disastrous November for Republicans up and down the ballot if the president’s numbers don’t recover.

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Will the GOP ever live down the damage this guy has wrought? I tend to doubt it. But....

When they start playing the race card, when hate mongering Right Wing spinmeisters begin painting Dems as the Party that allows blacks to run wild in the streets and Mexicans to flood the country while evil feminists kill their babies and gays sodomize your children in the Leftst indoctrination camps--aka public schools--all bets are off.

Batten down the hatches. There are many more hate tweets like the one Trump dished out earlier today on the way.

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

3. The racial strife dies down.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

Right now, it's not looking good, but November is still a ways away. So we'll have to see what things look like then.

And the GOP will be able to live down the damage of Trump, even if they lose it all in November. We've convinced ourselves that there's only 2 parties to vote for, so we just teeter-totter between the two. So for now we may swing to the D, but we'll swing back to the R eventually.

swing_voter said:

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

3. The racial strife dies down.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

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In other words:

‘Well, a miracle can happen!’


* The virus is biology. It’s not going anywhere except into grandmas lungs.

* The economy will follow the control of the virus. Our federal government has given up, and when fall/flu season comes, we’re likely to see a second wave that is much, much worse than the spring.

* Racial strife might die down if it’s addressed. So far, the WH is addressing it by encouraging increasing the strife.

swing_voter said:

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

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It won't. If anything colder weather will make it worse in places up North.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

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How?

3. The racial strife dies down.

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That would actually help Dems.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

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Not with Lincoln Project reminding them how Trump left Americans to die, both at home and abroad.

swing_voter said:

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

3. The racial strife dies down.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

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Now that would be a miracle

calamity said:

Will the GOP ever live down the damage this guy has wrought? I tend to doubt it.

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You're kidding right? Just six years after Watergate Ronald Reagan led a landslide that also took the Senate for the GOP.

Read up on some history.

And note, Reagan was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan who said in a statement that "The Republican platform looks like it was written by a Klansman"

Reagan rejected the endorsement of course but not before President Carter's campaign complained about it repeatedly.

The racist trash in America came out from under their rocks for him in '16, so with them and help from his Puppet Master, he hopes to make it again.

Old 'N Chill said:

The racist trash in America came out from under their rocks for him in '16, so with them and help from his Puppet Master, he hopes to make it again.

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Add to that the "fearful" Republicans who are all too frightened to speak out against Trump's blatant racism, and we will see a really ugly election season. I am sure.

It’s never been easy to be an anti-Trump Republican, and even now, as the president endures a dark political hour, it’s no easier.

Trump’s standing in nearly all public polls is eroding. He has inflamed racial tensions in the wake of the George Floyd killing. He’s endured unprecedented criticism from former military leaders.

Yet Trump’s grip on the Republican Party remains so strong that only a handful of GOP elected officials have publicly criticized him, fearful of bringing down the wrath of the president or his supporters.

Why do Republicans stick with Donald Trump? - Los Angeles Times

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I suspect fear is innate in the average Republican. Look at all the things they fear:

Communists, gays, blacks, women, someone taking their guns--not to mention that the fact that they all even need guns shows their innate fear of everything around them.

After Randall Ritnour, a lifelong Republican in Lincoln, Neb., attacked President Trump in a video, his own brother denounced him. Ryan Rapier, a Republican in Thatcher, Ariz., who announced he would vote for Joe Biden, worried it could cost him his seat on the City Council. When Jennifer Horn, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was photographed with Biden, a GOP committee rescinded a special service award it had given her.

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THat ^ is not freedom. That is belonging to a Cult.

Dayton3 said:

You're kidding right? Just six years after Watergate Ronald Reagan led a landslide that also took the Senate for the GOP.

Read up on some history.

And note, Reagan was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan who said in a statement that "The Republican platform looks like it was written by a Klansman"

Reagan rejected the endorsement of course but not before President Carter's campaign complained about it repeatedly.

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Compared to Trump, Nixon was a good president. If you want someone to compare to Trump, see George Wallace.

swing_voter said:

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

3. The racial strife dies down.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

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Since none of those are going to happen there is little to discuss.
My bigger concern is the GOP and trump trying to surpress the vote and attempting to steal the election or trump refusing to leave office because he claims the Dems cheated. Both are far more likely than any of those on the list if It's

Ikari said:

Right now, it's not looking good, but November is still a ways away. So we'll have to see what things look like then.

And the GOP will be able to live down the damage of Trump, even if they lose it all in November. We've convinced ourselves that there's only 2 parties to vote for, so we just teeter-totter between the two. So for now we may swing to the D, but we'll swing back to the R eventually.

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Or Maybe develop something geared more to the middle, which of-course the Big Two will fight against tooth and nail.

swing_voter said:

There's still what? 4 months until the election? What if:

1. The virus goes away.

2. The economy comes roaring back.

3. The racial strife dies down.

Voter memories are short. Who knows? Nobody thought he'd win in 2016.

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Plus the voters are stupid and bias. We need more people voting at the local level where all the problems are. Removal of all the corrupt career party puppets is the real solution to fixing our country.

The virus going away will not be because of Trump any more than he caused it. The economy crashing was not Trumps fault and when it recovers will not be because of Trump. The racial strife is clearly the lefts fault and we need to hope and pray it ends before they destroy this country. Changes need to be made at the polls not burning. pillaging, and the destruction of monuments and statues. That is just fuel increasing the hate and prejudice by people full of hate.