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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Tue Jan 16, 2018, 09:25 AM Jan 2018

Republican Midterm-strategy has been leaked: More Trump!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/15/1732950/-Republicans-plan-on-salvaging-the-midterms-with-their-ace-in-the-hole-Trump

The concern has grown so acute that Trump received what one congressional aide described as a “sobering” slide presentation about the difficult midterm landscape at Camp David last weekend, leading the president to pledge a robust schedule of fundraising and campaign travel in the coming months, White House officials said.

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But it's not just Trump himself who's bought into the notion that he "alone can fix it." Here's an unnamed GOP consultant:

“The big question is: Is everything different with Trump? Because the major metrics point to us losing at least one house of Congress.”

That sliver of optimism extends to the top of the Republican leadership who are hopeful that Trump’s disruptive effect on the political landscape can once again surprise the nation this fall.

“Who knows what 2018 will be like? Nobody called 2016, right?” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the second-ranking Republican in that chamber. “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was going to get elected and that Chuck Schumer was going to be the majority leader. And none of that turned out to be true.”

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Oh Yes! The normal rules for Midterms don't count! Because Trump!

Except that Nate Silver DID predict a closer-than-expected race. And except that Obama defeated McCain because he was "Anybody-but-Bush" and that Trump defeated Clinton because he was "Anybody-but-Clinton".

And now the US is heading into Midterms with a choice between Trump and "Anybody-but-Trump" at a time when Trump's popularity is at an historic low.

Btw, I've recently seen a poll of a generic anti-Trump Republican narrowly beating a generic pro-Trump Republican. Even republican voters are getting tired of him.