Trump will win in 2020

[UsualName]

from the wsj article linked below.
"The House-passed pay raise used the same legislative language that was included in a Senate bill scored by the Congressional Budget Office. That analysis pegged the cost of the pay raise for federal workers at $3.329 billion in fiscal year 2019.

In other words, take the money the Pelosi House has now approved for barriers and other equipment to prevent illegal border crossings and add the money the Pelosi House wants to hand out in raises for bureaucrats and you have roughly $5 billion, which would just about cover the President’s wall request."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pelosi-pay-raise-11546638990

My comment:

I wonder how much support there is these days outside the beltway for pay raises for bureaucrats versus, border security and not having to see Officer Singh's son grow up without a father. Yup. The dems need to be careful. Someone might propose a solution that is supported by people outside the beltway. Thus giving Trump two victories in one. Not sayin that will happen but they need to be careful.

So all of that $3.3 billion in raises is only for bureaucrats? I’m thinking not.

 

[UsualName]

Trump has already lost. This will be rather obvious in 2020, but it's been clear since the mid terms how strong the "anyone but Trump" vote is, particularly for women and minorities that are actually a solid majority of the voter base. Your list of Trump accomplishments is remarkably weak given the economy Trump was handed to take over. GDP will likely shrink because Trump messed it up with his trade wars; almost all your allies are doing everything they can to reduce their trade with the US. AAPL's warning and Ford's layoffs make that very clear, if the farmer subsidies didn't.

I wish you were right but we cannot write off Trump so easily. You will see democrats learn from the last election but Trump is learning too.

Apple’s warning was certainly a shock but the fedex forecast was more troubling. They simply are seeing a slowdown of goods being shipped globally. If that doesn’t tell you things are slowing nothing will.

 

[Nine_Ender]

I wish you were right but we cannot write off Trump so easily. You will see democrats learn from the last election but Trump is learning too.

Apple’s warning was certainly a shock but the fedex forecast was more troubling. They simply are seeing a slowdown of goods being shipped globally. If that doesn’t tell you things are slowing nothing will.

Maybe so but Trump has legal issues and his own party really doesn't like him. I truly believe the female vote is a game changer; that segment blew it last election but there are several new women winners in the mid terms and the profile of some of them is refreshingly different then what we normally see in the US. Guess we'll find out, I would have completely agreed with you a year ago, I was thinking at the time that like GWB he could squeak out a narrow win then the extent of the damage he was doing would hit the press within a year or two and even his supporters would start to hate him as leader.

 

[elderado]