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Four years ago last night, candidate Trump became Republican nominee Trump. The next day, I wrote that I’d been wrong for giving him only a 5% chance of being the nominee. But I was also right. 1/
What I wrote 4 yrs ago today about Trump’s election applies to the increasingly overconfident Democrats and Never Trumpers as well journalists covering 2020:
» My advice to anyone who thinks he can't/won't be elected President: WAKE UP AND DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HIM AGAIN. «
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» My advice to anyone who thinks he can't/won't be elected President: WAKE UP AND DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HIM AGAIN. «
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We are 104 days till the election and I see pundits, media folks and everyday Americans haven’t learned much from 2016.
The laws of electoral physics don’t apply to Trump.
Just because Biden is ahead today doesn’t mean much with the chaos all around us. 3/
The laws of electoral physics don’t apply to Trump.
Just because Biden is ahead today doesn’t mean much with the chaos all around us. 3/
Candidate Trump told us he could shoot someone on Fifth Ave (who even thinks like that, let alone says it out loud?) and he wouldn’t lose his voters.
Fast forward to today: The deaths of 150K Americans have lost him some support, but 90% of Republicans still approve of him. 4/
Fast forward to today: The deaths of 150K Americans have lost him some support, but 90% of Republicans still approve of him. 4/
Some of the conservatives who took a principled stand against Trump in @NationalReview’s Jan. 2016 cover story, “Against Trump” - incl @BillKristol - have stayed true to those principles since. But many others have become lapdogs for Trump, enabling him at every turn. 5/
