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(24,486 posts)any competent candidate could win. We'll see if the bold talk about a blue wave in the midterms comes to pass as well as if young people actually showing up to vote is more than talk. If Democrats can take the House they can be a thorn in Trump's side along with his getting cut and weakened by Mueller's investigation (let's be real about what might actually happen) then I have my doubts if Trump will actually run if he really believes he would lose as an incumbent. He will declare his presidency to be the most beautiful and successful in presidential history, that there is a massive conspiracy to bring him down, and so he will "retire" on top (on top in his mind).
But if Democrats take the House and then proceed to spend months to impeach Trump, who will never be convicted by the Senate, they will make a martyr of him firing up his base as well as causing some Republicans to support him who might otherwise have not done that a second time.
But a note to the Left and Democratic candidates: The President of the United States is elected by winning 270 electoral votes, not by the popular vote.