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A professor who has correctly predicted every US presidential election since 1984 says that the coronavirus outbreak could be the final straw that ends Donald Trumps presidency in November.
Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, said that the 2020 election is so-far too close to call, but that a damaged economy from concerns around a potential pandemic could add the final ingredient to flatten Mr Trumps re-election prospects.
One of the big issues that is clearly hanging fire is whats going to happen to the economy in light of the coronavirus crisis, Mr Lichtman told The Independent. We have no idea, the crisis could peter out or it could lead to a worldwide pandemic that could slide America into recession, which would obviously doom Donald Trump.
Nobody knows where this coronavirus thing is going, but the big institutions are already sharply downgrading their economic predictions for the year, he said.
https://news.yahoo.com/professor-predicted-last-9-elections-200651874.html
For the sake of our country's future I hope he's right.
msongs
(67,462 posts)jayfish
(10,039 posts)a whole lot of shite he's likely to regret.
shanti
(21,675 posts)doc03
(35,392 posts)goes wrong he can blame Pence and make Jr. or Jarrod his VP.
yardwork
(61,729 posts)The ONLY thing Trump has going for him is a supposedly strong economy. If the stock market declines, Trump's actual base - white suburban dumbasses who don't care about anything but their money - won't vote for him.
This is why Obama won in 2008.
doc03
(35,392 posts)news conference was meant more to stop the stock market meltdown rather than stop any virus.
yardwork
(61,729 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)Republicans up. Mass disruption in our lives and 2% of us have to die.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Figures.