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Trumps social media rampages arent just damaging him, theyre causing swing voters to reevaluate both his priorities and the very health of the economy.
By JIM MESSINA November 18, 2017
It seems that virtually every day Donald Trump and his administration are embroiled in a new fiasco. The Mueller investigation is ongoing, indictments are coming out, and the president cant help himself from picking fights on Twitter. His targets run the gamut, from the New York Times and CNN, to NFL players and ESPN hosts. Theres even friendly fire directed at fellow Republicans like Mitch McConnell and Ed Gillespie. What Trump may not realizeand what new data showsis that he may be tweeting his way into losses in 2018 and 2020.
Ten months into his presidency, the failure of any one single scandal to sink his administration has led some in the media to suggest that Trump is like Teflon, with the grime that would stick to (and ruin) other politicians simply slipping right off. But the numbers show that nothing could be further from the truthTrumps scandals arent just damaging him, theyre causing swing voters to reevaluate both his priorities and the very health of the economy.
The Messina Group recently completed a long-term research project looking at a specific group who helped decide the 2016 election: white voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin who supported Barack Obama in 2012 but in 2016, did not vote for Hillary Clinton, instead choosing to either stay home or vote for Trump or a third-party candidate. What we foundcombined with this months election resultsshould worry Trump and every ally who has hitched their wagon to his fast-burning star.
Among the swing voters most critical to his viability, Donald Trump isnt just vulnerable, hes harming himself. Even as Wall Street reaches new highs in profitability and Trump endlessly brags about his stock-market numbers, these voters arent seeing the improvement in their own lives. And, most worryingly for Trump and Republicans, the presidents outlandish statements cause the voters we spoke with to believe that hes focused more on his own petty dramas than on improving their families lives.
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He isn't going to anything for anyone but himself. The fact that so many people are blind to this just amazes me.
Irish_Dem
(47,390 posts)Trump is evil and stupid. We are ripe for someone evil and smart. nt
Vogon_Glory
(9,128 posts)Still, I dont like it one bit that those of us who knew better from the get-go have to suffer along with these people as it slowly dawns on them that theyve been played for fools.