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FelineOverlord

(3,571 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:38 AM Jun 2020

'We're thinking landslide': GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/15/trump-glide-reelection-republican-officials-316457

Interviews with more than 50 state, district and county Republican Party chairs depict a version of the electoral landscape that is no worse for Trump than six months ago — and possibly even slightly better. According to this view, the coronavirus is on its way out and the economy is coming back. Polls are unreliable, Joe Biden is too frail to last, and the media still doesn’t get it.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” said Phillip Stephens, GOP chairman in Robeson County, N.C., one of several rural counties in that swing state that shifted from supporting Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

This year, Stephens said, “We’re thinking landslide.”

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'We're thinking landslide': GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection (Original Post) FelineOverlord Jun 2020 OP

The deplorable and the deluded. highplainsdem Jun 2020 #1

(Unless they know ahread of time they have rigged the system) they are on serious drugs SoonerPride Jun 2020 #2

Did they all get their "cheat" sheet the same day? Ferrets are Cool Jun 2020 #3

"The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump" jcgoldie Jun 2020 #4

"The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump" FelineOverlord Jun 2020 #5

highplainsdem

(48,902 posts)

1. The deplorable and the deluded.

Reply to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:39 AM

Jun 2020

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)

2. (Unless they know ahread of time they have rigged the system) they are on serious drugs

Reply to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:40 AM

Jun 2020

puff puff pass.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,102 posts)

3. Did they all get their "cheat" sheet the same day?

Reply to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:40 AM

Jun 2020

Because that is the ONLY way they will win.

jcgoldie

(11,612 posts)

4. "The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump"

Reply to FelineOverlord (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:41 AM

Jun 2020

...yeah that makes sense... who would blame the sitting president when the country goes in the shitter after all?

FelineOverlord

(3,571 posts)

5. "The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump"

Reply to jcgoldie (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 10:44 AM

Jun 2020

That's the line that really struck me, too! It's such weird thinking, but of course they are Republicans.

They think Trump will actually crush homeboy Biden in Pennsylvania. He could beat him, but not crush him.

Is it possible for Trump to win the election? Of course, with the Electoral College favoring rural voters.

This article convinces me that we must work even HARDER and take nothing for granted.

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