RangerGress wrote:
Oprah should run.
But as a GOP candidate.
First female black president and she's GOP. That'd be awesome. To hear the Dems talk, a good fraction of the GOP spends their days at home in trailerparks, so surely they're very familiar with daytime TV. She probably have a huge GOP female following. The ladies just need to rise up and get their menfolk on board.
Ok, her leanings might not be obviously right-of-center, but frankly, I've not seen much difference between GOP actions and Dem actions in decades. They talk a little different, but once they're in office they all seem to push pretty much the same policies. So she's one clever script writer from being the GOP candidate.
To say that 2020 would be a change election would be an understatement. Both sides would blow up. Seriously the Dems wouldn't know what to do--it literally would crush their remaining base + open up the big tent that the repubs love to talk about in a very real way.
I've said for 2-3 years that whoever won in 2016 was likely to be a one term POTUS. That belief solidified when the unfortunate choice was Shrillary or The Donald. He hasn't done anything in his first term, outside of Gorsuch (and the rest of the judicial picks who I'm 99% sure TD couldn't pick out of a lineup) and signing whatever was put in front of him, that leads me to believe otherwise.
2018 is going to make the RNC double-think their current all-in positioning. CA just lost another red seat with Ed Royce retiring. I don't think AZ is stupid enough to nominate Sherrif Joe for Senator, but anything is possible though that would be certain suicide/loss of a senate seat. But if the current RCP #s hold, and it is a 30-40 seat swing in the House, then suddenly 2020 becomes a very likely get-primaried time for POTUS.
If I'm Nikki Haley I'm watching the polls in the 2nd half of 2018 & thinking about resigning at EOY. She would destroy TD in a primary, but only IF she could get the RNC's backing. Mitt could possibly do it, but I doubt the establishment wants to bet on him a second time around. Though a 40+ swing in House & RNC will run from TD and back anyone non twitter crazy. I have zero idea who the Dems will run--Biden blew it when he didn't just ease into Obama's seat, and Warren is a cancer on a number of levels. Gov Moonbeam would have an interesting run, and he's been on the national stage twice + has a very good track record of turning CA around (though the economy did more than he really did, but that applies to most politicians). I literally can't name another national Dem aside from Cuomo, and that name carries just as much baggage as it does identity....
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