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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsformer 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 dont have many choices. The White House staff, I think, is in disarray. The Hill doesnt know what to do, theyre running back and forth, so the campaign is where this is going to be centered.
They are terrible numbers, and its 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 didnt 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. Its very hard to see at this point how he survives 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 dont have many choices. The White House staff, I think, is in disarray. The Hill doesnt know what to do, theyre running back and forth, so the campaign is where this is going to be centered.
They are terrible numbers, and its 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 didnt 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. Its 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
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)1. Because he still has 40%
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.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)2. It's all about turnout on the anti Trump side.
Girard442
(6,073 posts)4. 40% plus massive vote suppression could do it for him.
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.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)5. + Hackable electronic voting machines...
Baltimike
(4,144 posts)3. Because the Russians. nt
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)6. Pooty-poot; Gerry the Mander, Suppression;
Hackable machines; Possible Electoral College decision; Eligible voters who don't/won't; 40% of USA are Trumpite Deplorables.