Midterms

**Hoot Gibson** · 11-08-2018, 02:04 AM

jetpilot Wrote:Straight off the Kristol/Scarborough twitter feed. I won't go into how absurd your post is because I could go on all day and you, Kristol and Scarborough would let it go in one ear and out the other. So I will just sum it up with one sentence and you can save this post and take it to the bank:

Trump is a lock to win in 2020.

You seem to be obsessed with the idea that I am channeling somebody else's thoughts. I don't like Trump. I don't need anybody else to tell me that I should dislike him.

That being said, I think that Trump's accomplishments so far in his first term were easily sufficient to have earned him another two years with a Republican Congress. Trump blew it, IMO. He should have spent less time making up nicknames for his adversaries, less time holding pep rallies in areas where he could draw large crowds, and more time touting the booming economy.

I see two ways that the next two years can go. Either Trump will cut deals with Pelosi and Democrats or we will have two years of gridlock. I am hoping for gridlock. If, and I think that is becoming a big IF, Trump is actually the Republican candidate in 2020, he can certainly blame not securing our borders in 2019 and 2020 on Democrats, but he will not be able to hide from his record of failing to secure the border in 2017 and 2018, while his party controlled both houses of Congress.

So, what will be the battle cry in 2020, "This time, we are going to build that wall if you elect me and return the House to the Republicans?"

I would say that Trump has almost no chance to be re-elected in 2020, but Democrats could easily overplay their hand and nominate an even worse candidate than Hillary Clinton. But to say that Trump is a lock two years in advance of the election, given that he will be fighting subpoenas throughout the next two years is crazy talk.

Absent another Democratic opponent as bad or worse than Hillary, I don't think Trump has a chance to win in 2020. If he is the Republican nominee, I will be voting for him again, but I hope that I won't have to cast that vote.