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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:15 PM Oct 2019

former WH Communications Director: "Very hard to see at this point how he survives Election Day"

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/ex-white-house-official-drops-bomb-on-trump-over-new-poll-he-wont-survive-election-day/

With a new Washington Post poll showing Americans support the House impeachment inquiry by a 58-38 percent margin, and nearly 50 percent saying the House should impeach Trump and call for his removal, Lockhart said those numbers are likely to get worse for the president.

“I was the press secretary for the re-election campaign for Bill Clinton, and we funneled everything through the White House and through the prism of policy and doing things for the people because we thought if the campaign, you know, trumpeted things it seems political,” he explained. “But I think they don’t have many choices. The White House staff, I think, is in disarray. The Hill doesn’t know what to do, they’re running back and forth, so the campaign is where this is going to be centered.”

“They are terrible numbers, and it’s bad news across the board,” Lockhart conceded. “These numbers with Republicans are creeping up, you know. I can understand 30 percent on the inquiry, but the 20 percent for removal is terrible. But even worse news is independents. Donald Trump won because he convinced enough independents that Hillary Clinton didn’t have the character to be president.”

“That number will only go up,” Lockhart continued. “[It] is very hard to see his path to electoral victory, he may survive impeachment. It’s very hard to see at this point how he survives Election Day.”
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former WH Communications Director: "Very hard to see at this point how he survives Election Day" (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2019 OP
Because he still has 40% OliverQ Oct 2019 #1
It's all about turnout on the anti Trump side. OnDoutside Oct 2019 #2
40% plus massive vote suppression could do it for him. Girard442 Oct 2019 #4
+ Hackable electronic voting machines... CentralMass Oct 2019 #5
Because the Russians. nt Baltimike Oct 2019 #3
Pooty-poot; Gerry the Mander, Suppression; Golden Raisin Oct 2019 #6
 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
1. Because he still has 40%
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:18 PM
Oct 2019

approval and he likely has just barely enough support in key Electoral College states to still squeak out a win. His base isn't leaving him. That's the problem.

Girard442

(6,073 posts)
4. 40% plus massive vote suppression could do it for him.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:26 PM
Oct 2019

If we pul this one out, it will be due to determined voters in urban areas willing to stand in lines around the block in rain and snow to cast their ballot while 4wd's with rifle racks roar past them all day rolling coal.

Golden Raisin

(4,608 posts)
6. Pooty-poot; Gerry the Mander, Suppression;
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 05:44 PM
Oct 2019

Hackable machines; Possible Electoral College decision; Eligible voters who don't/won't; 40% of USA are Trumpite Deplorables.

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