Donald Trump is going to win the 2020 election in a landslide and we will give you many reasons. Donald J Trump probably isn’t going to get more electoral votes than Ronald Reagan in 1984 when he won 49 of 50 states. I doubt Donald J Trump will get over 500 electoral votes but we will go over a few reasons why we believe that Trump is on pace for a yuge re-election bid. One can only hope. With all the violence in street, current pandemic, and slow creep of socialism, the silent majority has been awakened. Click below to read 10 reasons why Donald J Trump wins 2020 re-election campaign.
1. The opening night of the 2020 Republican National Convention blew last week’s Democratic snoozefest out of the water, drawing in six times more viewers on C-SPAN’s livestream.
Approximately 440,000 people tuned in to watch the first night of the virtual GOP convention on Monday, compared to just 76,000 views for the first night of the DNC, according to a Hill report.
While the Democratic gathering boasted speeches from big names such as former first lady Michelle Obama, who gave a rousing endorsement of Joe Biden and drew the ire of President Trump, far more people tuned in to see Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley and the gun-wielding McCloskeys bash Biden.
The more traditional TV ratings from Nielsen won’t be out until Tuesday afternoon.
Last week’s 2020 Democratic National Convention tanked in the Nielsen ratings compared to the 2016 opening festivities where Hillary Clinton was crowned the nation’s first female presidential nominee.
Viewership was down as much as 42 percent on the broadcast networks CBS, NBC and ABC.
Most of the networks, including Fox, ABC and CNN, still averaged 18.68 million viewers, but that was a 28 percent plunge from the opening night of the 2016 DNC.
One of the most viral highlights from Monday’s RNC kickoff was an impassioned broadside from Don Jr.’s girlfriend, Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle, which immediately blew up on social media.
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2. Rioting is clearly hurting the Democrats.
CNN host Don Lemon declared Tuesday night that now-deadly riots in Kenosha, Wis., have to stop if 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden wants to defeat President Trump on election day.
“The rioting has to stop,” Lemon said. “It’s showing up in the polling. It’s showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing right now that is sticking.”
Earlier this week, Grabien Media founder Tom Elliot noticed that the word “violent” was quickly erased from CNN’s on-screen graphic when correspondent Omar Jiminez did a live hit from Kenosha.
But after three nights of unrest, even liberal CNN has acknowledged the protests are far from peaceful. Lemon called the events in Kenosha a “Rorschach test” for the entire country.
“I think this is a blind spot for Democrats,” Lemon said. “I think Democrats are ignoring this problem or hoping that it will go away. And it’s not going to go away.”
Lemon said it’s unlikely anyone will come up with a solution before Election Day.
“The problem is not gonna be fixed by then, but what they can do, and I think Joe Biden may be afraid to do it, I’m not sure, maybe he won’t, maybe he is, he’s got to address it,” Lemon said. “He’s got to come out and talk about it. He’s got to do a speech like Barack Obama did about race. He’s got to come out and tell people that he is going to deal with the issue of police reform in this country.”
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain noticed a clip of Lemon’s comments on Twitter and agreed with the liberal CNN host.
“Everything @donlemon said here is accurate. This is the one issue that could really turn the election against Biden and is showing up in the polling — all leaders have to come out forcefully and unequivocally against violence and looting,” McCain tweeted.
The remarks come as hundreds of people again defied curfew Tuesday night in Kenosha, where destruction marred protests the previous night as fires were set and businesses vandalized. There were 34 fires associated with that unrest, with 30 businesses destroyed or damaged along with an unknown number of homes, Kenosha Fire Chief Charles Leipzig told the Kenosha News.
The deadly violence broke out during the third night of civil unrest since 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot at close range by city police officers, leaving him partially paralyzed.
Kenosha police are searching Wednesday for a suspect seen on video armed with a long gun after a shooting late Tuesday killed two people and wounded a third.
3.Over 2M new gun owners reported in first half of 2020
More than 2 million Americans became first-time gun owners in the first half of 2020, officials reported.
The National Rifle Association tweeted the news late Wednesday, referencing data released earlier in the week by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms trade group.
The shooting foundation reported in its monthly the total number of new gun owners was actually more likely to be more than 2.5 million.
“The early part of 2020 has been unlike any other year for firearm purchases — particularly by first-time buyers — as new NSSF® research reveals millions of people chose to purchase their first gun during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Jim Curcuruto, shooting foundation’s director of research and market development, said in a statement. “Not surprisingly, retailers reported an increased number of first-time gun buyers, estimating that 40 percent of their sales were to this group.”
Gun sales have skyrocketed during the past three months, and a record-breaking 80.2 percent increase in sales was reported in May compared to last year, according to the shooting foundation. April’s data showed a 71.3 percent increase from 2019, and there was an 85.3 percent increase in March, according to information previously released by Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting.
Tim Schmidt, president and founder of Wisconsin-based U.S. Concealed Carry Association said he had “mixed feelings” about the surge in first-time buyers.
“On the positive side, I’m excited that a lot of people have become new gun owners. Oftentimes, a person does not become a gun owner until something bad happens in their life… but in this situation, most of these people, nothing bad happened to them, but rather society, in general, is making them feel nervous,” Schmidt said Thursday. “I just hope that these people are taking it serious in terms of the amount of education and training and commitment that it really takes to be a responsible gun owner.”
The concealed carry association provides training education and legal assistance to more than 350,000 people, and has also reported a spike in new membership, particularly first-time owners in the previous months, a spokesperson has said.
“A gun is a very powerful tool,” Schmidt said. “Good things can happen when it’s used, as well as bad things, just like fire.”
He emphasized the four rules that every person should learn before becoming a first-time gun owner:
“Never point the gun on anything you’re not willing to destroy. “Always consider every gun loaded. “Never place your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot. “Always know what you’re shooting at and what’s behind it.” “That’s the first thing: Understand the rules of gun safety,” Schmidt said. “Number two is to teach your family. Teach the people that you live with those four rules and teach them to respect the tool.”
4.Americans are tired of the Democrats overplaying the Covid 19 pandemic for their own political gains.
Biden and Harris call for three-month nationwide mask mandate
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris are calling for a three-month nationwide mask mandate to limit the spread of coronavirus.
During a briefing by public health experts in Wilmington, Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told reporters that all the nation’s governors should require this.
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months, at a minimum. Every governor should mandate mandatory mask-wearing,” Biden said, suggesting that widespread mask use could save 40,000 lives over the next three months. “Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives.”
One July study found that 40,000 lives would have been saved in two months if a national mask mandate for employees had gone into effect for the months of April and May.
Harris, who was chosen this week by Biden to be his running mate and attended the health briefing with him, echoed Biden’s call for the mandate.
“That’s what real leadership looks like,” Harris said. “We just witnessed real leadership, which is Joe Biden said, that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for the next three months because it will save lives.”
Thirty-four states currently require people to wear facial coverings in public.
President Trump ridiculed the idea during a news conference later Thursday.
“While Joe Biden would allow rioters and looters and criminals and millions of illegal aliens to roam free in our country, he wants the federal government to issue a sweeping new mandate to law-abiding citizens,” Mr. Trump said. “He wants the president of the United States, with the mere stroke of a pen, to order over 300 million American citizens to wear a mask for a minimum of three straight months, because…he thinks it’s good politics, I guess, no matter where they live, and no matter their surroundings.”
Mr. Trump has been seen wearing a mask infrequently and only recently pivoted to supporting the wide use of masks in public. In May, Mr. Trump mocked Biden on Twitter for wearing a mask.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, there are over 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S., and over 166,000 Americans have died of the virus.
5. TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING WITH BLACK VOTERS MAY BE HIGHER THAN YOU THINK
As far as public perception goes, most black voters are not in favor of President Donald Trump. However, the numbers don’t exactly say the same thing.
According to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Trump has a 14% approval rating among black voters with every 8 out of 10 African Americans stating that they are uncomfortable with the possibility of him getting re-elected for another four years. Another poll conducted by the BlackPAC showed that most African Americans are not only dissatisfied with the current administration, but the overall state of the country right now. The survey shows that 76% of black voters are completely dissatisfied with the overall direction of the country, 42% believe that the economy is getting worse, and 77% believe that he is a racist.
“Black voters want a courageous moral leader who can unify the country,” said Adrianne Shropshire, BlackPAC executive director, in the report. “In addition to bold, progressive policies, black voters are looking for a leader who will bring the nation together, meaningfully improve the economy, and defeat Trump. It’s clear that there is still a lot of work to do to demonstrate who can heal the nation and course correct our democracy.”
Despite the low numbers, this is only one half of the story. While black voters as a majority may seemingly move in one direction, there is still a stark divide between genders. In the same NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the results show that 24% of black men approved of Trump in comparison to 6% of black women who approved of the current president. These polling results are still low compared to other ethnic groups—32% of Latino men and 25% Latino women approved of the current administration—but this trend is unique to this election. Even during the Obama administration, exit polls showed that black women were more in favor of Barack Obama in comparison to black men in 2008 and 2012.
So why is there a gender gap? The answer is complex and no one has studied these voting trends between the two groups. However, this hasn’t stopped the Trump campaign from rolling out different tactics to persuade black voters to vote for him with the creation of field offices in 15 cities, including five in his other “home” state, Florida. His target is primarily black men. For critics like policy analyst, Stewart J. Lawrence, the reason there is a segment of black men that support Trump comes down to his persona.
“Trump is a genuinely ‘aspirational’ figure for some African American men — in fact, quite a few, higher than has been reported, I think,” Lawrence told Vox. “I did quite a few informal interviews before the 2016 election and [was] surprised to see how far this went — but perhaps less surprising against a female Democratic candidate.”
To others like Ugonna Eze, a conservative black law student at the University of Chicago, while his actions are mortifying, his policies aren’t. “While I don’t appreciate some of his tweets or rhetoric,” he told Vox, “I think the president correctly assessed the challenges posed by China’s economic misbehavior, America’s protracted engagements in the Middle East, and the problems that came with lax enforcement of our immigration laws.” He plans to vote for Trump in the 2020 election.
Black women, on the other hand, tend to vote more on progressive views and Democratic. For people like Shelley Wynter, a radio host based in Atlanta, this gap represents only one of the many problems that divide the community. “There’s also a gap in a lot of things, particularly in the black community,” he said. There’s “the gap that exists with the whole Me Too movement, there’s a gap that exists in the whole world of accusations proving guilt. There’s a tremendous gap among males and females around many issues, and I think Trump’s just one of those issues.”
6. Mail In Balloting Will Not work, Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots
Anticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the U.S. Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and D.C. warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted — adding another layer of uncertainty ahead of the high-stakes presidential contest.
The letters sketch a grim possibility for the tens of millions of Americans eligible for a mail-in ballot this fall: Even if people follow all of their state’s election rules, the pace of Postal Service delivery may disqualify their votes.
The Postal Service’s warnings of potential disenfranchisement came as the agency undergoes a sweeping organizational and policy overhaul amid dire financial conditions. Cost-cutting moves have already delayed mail delivery by as much as a week in some places, and a new decision to decommission 10 percent of the Postal Service’s sorting machines sparked widespread concern the slowdowns will only worsen. Rank-and-file postal workers say the move is ill-timed and could sharply diminish the speedy processing of flat mail, including letters and ballots.
The ballot warnings, issued at the end of July from Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel and executive vice president of the Postal Service, and obtained through a records request by The Washington Post, were planned before the appointment of Louis DeJoy, a former logistics executive and ally of President Trump, as postmaster general in early summer. They go beyond the traditional coordination between the Postal Service and election officials, drafted as fears surrounding the coronavirus pandemic triggered an unprecedented and sudden shift to mail-in voting.
Some states anticipate 10 times the normal volume of election mail. Six states and D.C. received warnings that ballots could be delayed for a narrow set of voters. But the Postal Service gave 40 others — including the key battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida — more-serious warnings that their long-standing deadlines for requesting, returning or counting ballots were “incongruous” with mail service and that voters who send ballots in close to those deadlines may become disenfranchised.
“The Postal Service is asking election officials and voters to realistically consider how the mail works,” Martha Johnson, a spokeswoman for the USPS, said in a statement.
In response to the Postal Service’s warnings, a few states have quickly moved deadlines — forcing voters to request or cast ballots earlier, or deciding to delay tabulating results while waiting for more ballots to arrive.
Pennsylvania election officials cited its letter late Thursday in asking the state’s Supreme Court for permission to count ballots delivered three days after Election Day. But deadlines in many other states have not been or cannot be adjusted with just weeks remaining before the first absentee ballots hit the mail stream. More than 60 lawsuits in at least two dozen states over the mechanics of mail-in voting are wending their way through the courts.
7. Public sentiment is turning against China and Joe Biden is preferred candidate of the Chinese Government.
‘China would prefer Joe Biden’: Nancy Pelosi referring to US intelligence reports
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stated, “China [the CCP] would prefer Joe Biden” as the winner of the next U.S. presidential election, which would go against the re-election of President Donald Trump.
Pelosi expressed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) preference for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in an Aug. 9 CNN interview, referring to reports by National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) Director Bill Evanina.
President Trump also referred to the same intelligence report at a White House press conference released on Aug. 8.
“China would love us to have an election where Donald Trump lost to Sleepy Joe Biden. They would dream—they would own our country. If Joe Biden was president, China would own our country,” Trump said.
“The last thing that Russia wants and China [the CCP] wants and Iran wants would be for Donald Trump to win,” the president reiterated, briefly mentioning the actions he took to benefit the United States in dealing with the CCP.
“Look what I’ve done. I’ve taken billions—tens of billions of dollars from China. China was having the worst year they’ve had in 67 years, and we were having the best year we’ve ever had,” Trump said.
Pelosi’s statements allude to Evanina’s press release about possible threats to the U.S. election process.
“Many foreign actors have a preference for who wins the election, which they express through a range of overt and private statements; covert influence efforts are rarer. We are primarily concerned about the ongoing and potential activity by China, Russia, and Iran,” Evanina said, according to the Office of the National Director of Intelligence.
Evanina outlined the situation posed by countries that intelligence agencies believe could pose significant risks to the United States.
“We assess that China prefers that President Trump—whom Beijing sees as unpredictable—does not win re-election. China[the CCP] has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States,” he warned.
To substantiate his suspicions, he linked the strong criticism voiced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of the actions taken by the Trump administration against the Houston Consulate, the repressive security law imposed on Hong Kong, the TikTok network, the irregular situation in the South China Sea, and the dominant position in the installation of the 5G network.
On the influence of Russia, Evanina reported that it seeks to affect Biden’s reputation.
Regarding the risks presented by Iran, he said, “We assess that Iran seeks to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections.”
8. Before Covid 19 pandemic Trump had the American economy booming. US economy under Trump: Is it the greatest in history?
President Trump often says the US economy is on an historic high, perhaps the greatest it’s ever been.
Speaking at his State of the Union address in February, he reinforced those claims by hailing his pro-growth policies which he says have helped Americans with jobs and wages.
Reality Check verdict: It’s true the economy has been doing well – but there have been periods when it was even stronger.
And the trade war with China, rising tensions in the Middle East and fears over the health of the global economy have unsettled markets at various points, and led the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, to lower interest rates.
President Trump has repeatedly tweeted that the current US economy is the greatest in American history.
What do the figures show?
The annual rate of growth in GDP – the value of goods and services in the economy – has generally been strong.
For 2019, the data shows an annual average growth of 2.3%, ending the year at 2.1% for the fourth quarter.
This is significantly less than the 5.5% peak achieved in the second quarter of 2014 during the Obama presidency.
And if you go further back, there were times in the 1950s and 1960s when GDP growth was even higher.
“If you choose to look at the health of the economy based on GDP, Mr Trump’s claims are suspect when compared to the national economic boom of the post-War years,” says Megan Black, assistant professor of history at the London School of Economics.
Stock market soars… then wobbles President Trump has also highlighted the rising value of US financial markets – in particular the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which follows the shares of 30 major US companies.
It’s true the Dow reached record highs under his administration. Mr Trump’s supporters argue that his corporation tax cuts along with his US-focused policies, his clampdown on bureaucracy and his promises of infrastructure investment have all helped.
The index was highly volatile at times during 2019, reflecting worries about the trade confrontation with China, and a gloomier outlook for the global economy.
But it’s begun 2020 by notching up more gains with investors apparently positive about growth prospects.
Jobs and wages So, what’s happening with employment and wages?
In his State of the Union address, President Trump said unemployment was at its lowest for half a century. He also said that since his election, seven million more Americans were now on the employment roll.
9. Americans are tired of war. Donald Trump is the first president in 40 years to not start a new war.
Rand Paul claims Trump is the most antiwar president ‘in a generation’
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky kicked off the second night of this year’s Republican National Convention Tuesday by insisting that President Trump — whose bellicose rhetoric often belies a reluctance to intervene in overseas conflicts — is the most antiwar commander in chief in recent U.S. history.
“President Trump is the first president in a generation to seek to end war rather than start one,” Paul claimed, downplaying the fact that Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, slashed the number of U.S. troops in war zones from 150,000 to 14,000, even as he increased drone strikes. “If you hate war like I hate war — if you want us to quit sending $50 billion to Afghanistan for luxury hotels and natural-gas stations … you need to support President Trump for another term.”
Paul’s praise underscored one of the major themes of a convention that didn’t even bother to write a new party platform: how completely Trump has remade the once-hostile GOP in his own image.
That transformation is perhaps most striking in regard to Republicans’ new attitude toward the rest of the world. For viewers old enough to recall Ronald Reagan’s saber-rattling, George W. Bush’s mantra “You’re with us or against us,” or even Sen. Mitt Romney’s “Russia is our No. 1 geopolitical foe” tough talk, the sight of a Republican senator standing on stage at a Republican National Convention and celebrating a Republican president for his alleged dovishness was dizzying.
The sight of the same senator, in the next breath, accusing the Democratic nominee of being a warmonger — and echoing the left’s attacks on Biden’s establishment-friendly foreign policy record — was even more disorienting.
“Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War, which President Trump has long called the worst geopolitical mistake of our generation,” Paul said. “I fear Biden will choose war again. He supported war in Serbia, Syria and Libya. Joe Biden will continue to spill our blood and treasure. President Trump will bring our heroes home.”
Yet Paul’s attempt to frame Trump as 2020’s antiwar candidate reflects a deeper political reality. After decades of debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, even Republican voters are weary of war — a weariness that has allowed a party that prized hawkishness for much of its history to rapidly adopt a Trumpian worldview that vacillates between punishing allies, fawning over foes and, in its more coherent moments, hewing to something like the “America First” non-interventionism that both Paul and his father, the former Texas congressman and three-time presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, have advocated for years.
“We must not continue to leave our blood and treasure in Middle East quagmires,” Paul said. “I’m supporting President Trump because he believes, as I do, that a strong America cannot fight endless wars.”
Since arriving in the U.S. Senate in 2011 as part of that cycle’s tea party wave, Paul has carved out a niche for himself as one of Washington, D.C.’s least orthodox conservatives — not as doggedly libertarian as his dad, but dogged enough to clash frequently with mainstream Republicans over issues of civil liberties, fiscal responsibility, criminal justice and national security.
At first, Paul was not a fan of Trump. In 2011, Trump said that Ron Paul had no chance of becoming president. The younger Paul immediately shot back on CNN: “I think his chances are less than my father’s.”
By 2015, both Rand Paul and Trump were running for the Republican nomination themselves. Paul did not mince words when describing his celebrity opponent. He called Trump a “fake conservative” and “bully,” and after the first primary debate, called his “all blather, non sequitur and self-aggrandizing bombast.” A few months later, he called him a “delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag.”
10. Donald Trump is Fighting for the Middle Class, and Americans Know It. Contrary to what the Media Reports, Middle Class Americans are Surging
By nearly every measure today, we are living in a magnificent time for the American economy. There is a booming stock market fueling trillions of dollars of wealth gains, record low unemployment, 3 percent to 5 percent wage gains, and seven million unfilled jobs. So the recent headline for a CBS report seemed to strain all credulity when it declared, “Two years after Trump tax cuts, middle class Americans are falling behind.” Huh?
This might be the most dishonest news story headline of recent times. As the author of columns that ran a few weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal and on these pages which clearly documented that the median household income, meaning the middle class, has gained about $5,000 of income in just three years, I knew this headline was fatuous. The undeniable success story of the American economy is the surge in middle class incomes since President Trump took office and his tax cuts took effect, with middle class incomes increasing at least five times faster than under President Obama.
So how in the world did CBS mangle the universally good news to come up with an opposite conclusion? It turns out that there is a classic head fake in the report. The middle class is “falling behind” only relative to the gains of the wealthiest 1 percent. Even though the middle class has had a bigger income boost under Trump than anytime in 20 years, the middle class is allegedly now suffering a decline since the rich saw even faster gains. This appears to be an intentional distortion of economic reality.
Even more misleading is that CBS based its figures on a Congressional Budget Office estimate of what will happen with incomes over the next two years. The Congressional Budget Office also projected three years ago that gross domestic product might be some $600 billion below what it actually is today. This is not exactly an agency with a stellar record at predicting things. Even the CBS figures contradict the headline because the story claims incomes are up at least $4,000 per household for the middle class, adjusted for inflation under Trump. That compares with a $1,000 per household gain in incomes under Obama over eight years.
One critical conclusion of the CBS report is that “income for middle class Americans is growing more slowly than for both top earners and the poor.” But this is only because the tight labor market under Trump has brought about sizable wage gains for those at the bottom. The lowest quintile of Americans have seen some of the biggest percentage gains in income, according to an analysis done by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Can someone please explain how these gains for those at the bottom of the income ladder are a bad thing? These complaints are coming from the same voices on the left who obsess about income inequality, which is now declining by some measures. The biggest story of the economy has been upward mobility. The middle class is not falling behind, it is getting richer. Meanwhile, the tax cuts have reduced liabilities each year for the average family with children by about $2,000 a year. Overall median household family incomes have risen by almost 8 percent in just three years under Trump, compared to almost no gains throughout the previous 16 years.
None of this even includes the dramatic increase in middle class wealth during the Trump boom with the stock market up more than 50 percent since his election. This means the 150 million or so Americans in homes with 401(k) plans and other stock holdings are wealthier than they were in 2016. MarketWatch seems to think a roaring stock market only helps the poor. But by the way, the folks who get crushed during a downturn are always the poor and the middle class, as we learned in 2008 and 2009.
Ultimately, there is no truth to the CBS statement that the middle class is falling behind or that the tax cuts under Trump have not worked to raise incomes. Most families are doing much better financially, with 76 percent rating the economy as “pretty good” or “great,” according to CNN. This is what prosperity looks like, and this tide of growth is lifting nearly all boats.
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