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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMulvaney predicts post-impeachment landslide
https://www.axios.com/mick-mulvaney-trump-impeachment-2020-election-c49528ca-fd8b-492e-9d25-746b8775655e.html?fbclid=IwAR1cJlRFUwYk2_apCmQEvGsSS4JpiqhL1Q6zSsej_cQVm2f37jHCfGXLguYJonathan Swan2 hours ago
Scoop: Mulvaney predicts post-impeachment landslide
Mick Mulvaney
In numerous recent conversations with colleagues, including last week's senior staff meeting, White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney has said he thinks President Trump could win 45 states in 2020 after the impeachment process a magnitude of landslide that few if any independent pollsters would dare predict.
Between the lines: People who've heard Mulvaney make this remark say he wasn't joking or even exaggerating. He appears to genuinely believe that impeachment will have a profoundly positive effect on Trump's political fortunes, according to 3 sources who have heard Mulvaney make the 45-state prediction.
Mulvaney also believes that the longer the impeachment process drags on, the better it is, politically, for Trump, these sources added.
Mulvaney did not stipulate which 5 states he thought Trump would still lose when he made these comments, a source who heard them said.
His view appears to be based more on instinct than polling data. I have seen no polling that supports his prediction, and at this early stage, responsible polling analysts are extremely wary of predicting which party will benefit more from impeachment in 2020.
But it's possible Mulvaney is echoing the ebullience emanating from the Trump campaign. They are raising breathtaking sums online by telling supporters to give money to help Trump fight the Democrats trying to impeach him.
Mulvaney did not stipulate which 5 states he thought Trump would still lose when he made these comments, a source who heard them said.
His view appears to be based more on instinct than polling data. I have seen no polling that supports his prediction, and at this early stage, responsible polling analysts are extremely wary of predicting which party will benefit more from impeachment in 2020.
But it's possible Mulvaney is echoing the ebullience emanating from the Trump campaign. They are raising breathtaking sums online by telling supporters to give money to help Trump fight the Democrats trying to impeach him.
The big picture: Mulvaney's view is far from a consensus in Trump's orbit some see considerable peril and downside political risk for the president as the impeachment inquiry moves forward but his voice is one that the president hears every day and could bolster how Trump views the political dynamics of impeachment.
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Mulvaney predicts post-impeachment landslide (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2019
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)1. I'm sure he hopes this ass kissing article gets back to the boss. nt
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)2. He has no choice but to say that or he'll get fired!!
This is a fantasyland statement by a supposedly intelligent person, uttered for the ears of his boss only.
The only people left in his inner circle are the ones who really really really know how to kiss his ass.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)3. Mulvaney is a ding wad.
blm
(113,065 posts)4. False bravado.
dlk
(11,569 posts)5. Mulvaney may be right, depending how badly the voting machines are rigged
The completely corrupt Republican Party is working working overtime to maintain their stranglehold on power. Make no mistake.
spanone
(135,844 posts)6. Hey Mick, this is about saving our country....
you piece of shit.