Tag: 2020 election

Republicans Hope to Sway Voters With Labels That Demonize Democrats

WASHINGTON — In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.

That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy the American economy, murder newborn babies and turn a blind eye to bigotry against Jews.

The unusually aggressive assault, which Republican officials and strategists outlined in interviews last week, is meant to strangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy. It was set in motion this month by President Trump, who used his State of the Union address to rail against “new calls to adopt socialism in our country” and mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats in New York and Virginia as allowing “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.”

View the complete February 17 article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg on The New York Times website here.

Bill Weld will challenge Trump in 2020 presidential election

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld is taking the first steps to run against President Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential election primaries. Weld ran in 2016 as a Libertarian, and switched back to the Republican Party earlier this year.

Weld’s quotes from an event in New Hampshire, per WMUR:

  • “I’m here because I think our country is in grave peril … And I cannot sit quietly on the sidelines any longer.”

View the complete article by Mike Allen on the Axios website here.

A big warning sign for Trump’s 2020 reelection effort in this new poll

It has not been a good couple of weeks for President Trump’s poll numbers. While they’ve been relatively steady throughout his two years in the White House, the government shutdown has pushed his approval rating as low as it’s been at basically any point.

One number in the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll might be more troubling.

According to the poll, 56 percent of registered voters — a clear and statistically significant majority — say they will “definitely” not vote for Trump in his 2020 reelection bid.

View the complete January 29 article by Aaron Blake article on The Washington Post website here.

Warren announces White House bid, getting early jump on 2020 race

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) became the first major Democratic name to jump into the 2020 presidential race on Monday, announcing that she is forming an exploratory committee to run for the White House.

The senator made the announcement in a video sent to supporters and posted on YouTube.

“America’s middle class is under attack,” Warren said in the video. “How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a bigger slice.”

View the complete December 31 article by Justin Wise on The Hill website here.

Warning signs mount for Trump reelection bid

‘They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan,’ says one GOP pollster.

President Donald Trump has argued that many voters who support him did not vote in the midterm elections because his name was not on the ballot. Credit: Susan Walsh, AP Photo

Donald Trump insists the GOP’s midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with him. Things will be different, he says, when his name is actually on the ballot in 2020.

While it’s true that most presidents who see their party suffer major losses in their first midterm election get reelected anyway, Trump isn’t most presidents — and there are lots of blaring-red warning lights in this month’s election results for his bid for a second term.

Unlike most of his predecessors, he’s been persistently unpopular, with approval ratings mired in the 40-percent range — so far, he’s the only president in the modern era whose job approval ratings have never been over 50 percent, according to Gallup.

Slowing economy looms as 2020 challenge for GOP

There are growing signs that the economy will slow substantially over the next two years, posing a significant problem for President Trump and Republicans who highlighted economic growth heading into the 2018 midterm elections.

Goldman Sachs on Monday issued a report projecting gross domestic product (GDP) growth will slow to 1.8 percent and 1.6 percent in the third and fourth quarters of 2019, respectively, sooner than anticipated and creating a major headwind for GOP candidates the following year.

The bank’s chief economist, Jan Hatzius, wrote in a note to clients that “tighter financial conditions and a fading fiscal stimulus” from the 2017 tax reform and spending packages will be “key drivers of the deceleration.”

View the complete November 20 article by Alexander Bolton on The Hill  website here.

Trump’s Katrina? Influx of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria could tip Florida toward Democrats.

The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website September 28, 2017:

Donald Trump hugs the United States flag during a campaign rally in Tampa, Fla., last year. (Gerardo Mora/Getty Images)

THE BIG IDEA: More than 50 million ballots were cast by Floridians in the seven presidential elections from 1992 through 2016. If you add them all up, only 18,000 votes separate the Republicans from the Democrats. That is 0.04 percent.

Florida is rightfully considered the swingiest of swing states.Control of the White House in 2000 came down to a few hundredhanging chads – and one vote on the Supreme Court. The past four statewide elections – two governor’s races and two presidentials – were all decided by a single percentage point. Continue reading “Trump’s Katrina? Influx of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria could tip Florida toward Democrats.”