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The wall, the economy and tax cuts. That's what he ran on. The economy is strong, tax cuts happened as promised but it turned out that the majority of people didn't benefit from it, it created a $14 billion dollar deficit. Then there's the wall, the one Mexico would pay for. We can see, as conservatives can as well, that 3 out of his three main promises has been a miserable failure. What will he run on in 2020? He can't win the election running solely on a platform of white nationalism, that will only work with about 30% of the 54% of his loyal electorate. Unless he comes up with something substantial that will please the majority of his base, he can't win in 2020. But then, we don't know how much influence Russia will have in 2020. Russia has already been messing with the 2020 election by exploiting racial tensions and putting out mis-information propaganda against certain candidates on the internet.
I know Trump will have to use the healthy economy as his key talking point, but the 2020 election is a long way away in terms of how swiftly circumstances change here and the economy could take a downward turn if there's an increase in inflation and that would wipe out his main talking point. All lot of conservative voters aren't in agreement with his policy of splitting up families and child detention centers. And they are started to come to grips with the wall never becoming a reality. So, what's left to run on?
You totally skipped over healthcare, which is the number one issue far a whole lot of Americans.
Trumps only answer to healthcare is to disassemble the ACA, with no replacement.
Remember how he promised everyone would be covered, how inexpensive and beautiful it would be.
Then he stated that as it turns out healthcare is complicated.
So bumping into a complicated situation he chose to ignore it and hope it goes away...