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Title: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: truth_seeker on December 08, 2018, 02:39:19 am
5 Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
 



December 6, 2018

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Kasich, Flake, Sasse, Cruz, McMullin.

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https://theweek.com/articles/811016/5-republicans-who-could-challenge-trump-2020
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Sanguine on December 08, 2018, 02:51:26 am
Kasich, Flake, Sasse

 :silly:

McMullin?  Is he a Republican?
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Chosen Daughter on December 08, 2018, 02:59:10 am
Nothing wrong with Cruz or Sasse
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: corbe on December 08, 2018, 03:04:28 am
   This would be a great poll question @Chosen Daughter but personally, IMHO Cruz has been castrated like every other Conservative in the Trumplican Party.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Chosen Daughter on December 08, 2018, 03:30:17 am
   This would be a great poll question @Chosen Daughter but personally, IMHO Cruz has been castrated like every other Conservative in the Trumplican Party.

Doesn't quite have the same luster.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: libertybele on December 08, 2018, 03:30:31 am
   This would be a great poll question @Chosen Daughter but personally, IMHO Cruz has been castrated like every other Conservative in the Trumplican Party.

I'd say we need to wait and see what happens in the next year. Cruz has been very supportive of Trump. The only way that I remotely see Cruz challenging Trump is if Trump falls off the rails and rolls far to the left.  Honestly though, I just don't see Trump running for re-election and if he does, he would be very wise to ask Cruz to be his VP.

Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: truth_seeker on December 08, 2018, 03:32:02 am
Kasich, Flake, Sasse

 :silly:

McMullin?  Is he a Republican?

Wiki shows McMuffin, as a Republican before his 2016 dash for the Potus prize as an independent.

IMHO misin from this silly article, areJeb-Bush, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Mike Pence, Milt Romney, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Condi Rice, Haley whatserhername, Gary Johnston, and more. 
 
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: libertybele on December 08, 2018, 03:53:37 am
Kasich, Flake, Sasse

 :silly:

McMullin?  Is he a Republican?

Wiki shows McMuffin, as a Republican before his 2016 dash for the Potus prize as an independent.

IMHO misin from this silly article, areJeb-Bush, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Mike Pence, Milt Romney, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Condi Rice, Haley whatserhername, Gary Johnston, and more.

IMHO foolish to speculate this far out in advance without seeing how Trump fares in the next 2 years and before he even announces that he'll run for re-election.

Secondly, O'Rourke, Castro and Gillum will ALL give Trump a run for his money and could very easily win. 

Thirdly, I've not heard of anyone mentioned above stating that they were gong to challenge Trump -- silly article indeed.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 08, 2018, 04:03:04 am
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Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: DB on December 08, 2018, 04:05:52 am
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Ross_Perot_logo.png)

He's brain dead Jim.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: RoosGirl on December 08, 2018, 04:43:30 am
   This would be a great poll question @Chosen Daughter but personally, IMHO Cruz has been castrated like every other Conservative in the Trumplican Party.

@corbe Please, no polls about Ted Cruz's nuts.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Skeptic on December 08, 2018, 04:45:46 am
Honestly though, I just don't see Trump running for re-election and if he does, he would be very wise to ask Cruz to be his VP.

Google says there were only 4 U.S. presidents that didn't run for re-election; James Polk, Rutherford Hayes, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Why don't you think Trump would run? I would like to see him break the 2-term barrier, personally. What accent does Melania have anyway? Is she Chekz?
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: truth_seeker on December 08, 2018, 05:22:46 am
Google says there were only 4 U.S. presidents that didn't run for re-election; James Polk, Rutherford Hayes, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Why don't you think Trump would run? I would like to see him break the 2-term barrier, personally. What accent does Melania have anyway? Is she Chekz?
She is from Slovenia, once part of Yugoslavia. She speaks Slovenian.

You are perhaps thinking of Czechslovakia.

Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: mountaineer on December 08, 2018, 05:29:13 am
FDR did run for reelection,  repeatedly. 
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Skeptic on December 08, 2018, 07:50:23 am
FDR did run for reelection,  repeatedly.

Then Google can't be trusted, if you are correct.
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on December 08, 2018, 08:49:20 am
Google says there were only 4 U.S. presidents that didn't run for re-election; James Polk, Rutherford Hayes, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. Why don't you think Trump would run? I would like to see him break the 2-term barrier, personally. What accent does Melania have anyway? Is she Chekz?

Is this a joke account?
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: mountaineer on December 08, 2018, 02:16:59 pm
Polk is one of my favorites.
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True to his campaign pledge to serve only one term, Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee; he died in Nashville, most likely of cholera, three months after leaving the White House.
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk)
Title: Re: Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on December 08, 2018, 03:06:36 pm
I'd say we need to wait and see what happens in the next year. Cruz has been very supportive of Trump. The only way that I remotely see Cruz challenging Trump is if Trump falls off the rails and rolls far to the left.  Honestly though, I just don't see Trump running for re-election and if he does, he would be very wise to ask Cruz to be his VP.

The President is already running for reelection.  https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/)   All the rallies during the midterm were funded through his reelection campaign @libertybele

According to the Trump/2020 website it's "Trump/Pence" ... not Cruz