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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,313 posts)
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 08:16 PM Feb 2020

Professor who predicted last 9 elections warns coronavirus could 'doom' Trump in 2020

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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s re-election prospects.

“One of the big issues that is clearly hanging fire is what’s 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.

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doc03

(35,392 posts)
4. He got an insurance policy, he is going to put Pence in charge. Therefore if it
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 08:24 PM
Feb 2020

goes wrong he can blame Pence and make Jr. or Jarrod his VP.

yardwork

(61,729 posts)
5. That won't work. The average American isn't paying attention to Pence.
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 08:27 PM
Feb 2020

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)
7. I couldn't bring myself to watch the SOB but I guess his
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 08:30 PM
Feb 2020

news conference was meant more to stop the stock market meltdown rather than stop any virus.

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Baitball Blogger

(46,769 posts)
9. So now we know what it's going to take to wake Re
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 08:49 PM
Feb 2020

Republicans up. Mass disruption in our lives and 2% of us have to die.

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