Coming Soon: Trump 2020
By Dave Scharoun | October 21, 2016, 07:30am | @DaveScharounAs we move into the home stretch of the living nightmare that has been Campaign 2016, many Republicans have already begun to look ahead of the impending electoral train wreck awaiting us in two weeks to the next presidential election, where we’ll get another crack at beating the second-least popular political figure in modern history. Who will run? What will the party even look like four years from now? And, of course, who will be the Trump candidate?
Trump has brought a whole new wing of protectionist nationalists to the forefront of the party and has established a permanent seat at the table for them. The ~30% of the party that carried Trump to a victory in the primaries demonstrated that this is a much larger subset than previously imagined. Inevitably, even if Trump were to fade away, someone would pounce on the opportunity to carry the Trumpian flag. So who will it be?
Well, the obvious choice at this point seems to be Donald Trump.
Let’s start with the fact that Trump already seems to be laying the groundwork for casting himself as a martyr in the likely event of him losing to Hillary Clinton in two weeks. Having spent the previous week taking any chance he could get to tell his supporters that the election was rigged against him, Trump rebuffed the opportunity in the last debate to say that he would accept the election results were he to lose, instead saying he would “hold us in suspense.” That message is registering loud and clear with his supporters; a POLITICO poll conducted earlier this week found that 41% of all voters, including 73% of Republicans, believe that the election could be stolen from Trump.
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