“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB” APRIL 23, 2019

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“LEFT JAB AND RIGHT JAB”

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  1. Mitch Mcconnell Threatens To Block Everything When Trump Loses In 2020

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to kill popular legislation and policies when voters elect a Democratic president in the 2020 election

    “If I’m still the majority leader in the Senate in 2020, think of me as the Grim Reaper. None of that stuff is going to pass” McConnell told voters in Owensboro on Monday

    That stuff McConnell is so eager to kill? Popular ideas like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, which would help to clean up the environment and provide even more access to affordable health care. When voters reject Trump and the Republican agenda in 2020, McConnell is determined to do what he wants rather than what the voters want

    “I guarantee you that if I’m the last man standing and I’m still the majority leader, it ain’t happening. I can promise you”

    Earlier this month McConnell wrote an op-ed attacking Democrats for “mindless, undiscriminating obstruction for the sake of obstruction” because they have opposed some of Trump’s more radical or simply unqualified nominees. McConnell fumed that Democrats were somehow engaging in “historic” and “unprecedented behavior”

    “This new, across-the-board obstruction is unfair to the president and, more importantly, to the American people” McConnell wrote, though he engaged in exactly that sort of obstruction when President Obama, who had the mandate of 65.9 million voters behind him after the 2012 election, was president.

    Now McConnell is openly stating he will resort to the same tactics again. When America elects a Democratic president, McConnell will do everything in his power to stop the will of the voters. Again

    Mitch and the right-wing haters MUST go

    http://bit.ly/2Pobwo3

  2. Name The Much-Criticized Federal Program That Has Saved The U.S. $2.3 Trillion In Less Than 10 Years (Hint: It Starts With Affordable)

    One month after the ACA had passed, the Office of the Actuary of the Department of Health and Human Services projected its financial impact in a report entitled “Estimated Financial Effects of the ‘Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act’,as Amended” where the government’s official record-keeper estimated that health care costs under the ACA would reach $4.14 trillion per year in 2017 and constitute 20.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)

    Fast forward to December 2018, when that same office released the official tabulation of health care spending in 2017. Cumulatively from 2010 to 2017 the ACA reduced health care spending a total of $2.3 trillion. In 2017 alone, health expenditures were $650 billion lower than projected, and kept health care spending under 18 percent of GDP. It did all of this while expanding health coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans. Compared to the 2010 projections, the government’s Medicare bill in 2017 was 10 percent ($70 billion) less, and spending for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program was a whopping $250 billion below expectations (partially due to the failure of some states to expand the program)

    Hospital readmissions for beneficiaries dropped 10.4% since the ACA became law. In one year, that drop translates into 3,789 beneficiaries who avoided an unnecessary return to the hospital. Nationally, this means that an estimated 87,000 lives PER YEAR have been saved

    HARD FACT: That equals OVER 783 million lives in nine years!

    Put another way, health care spending in 2017 was $2,000 less per person than it was projected to be. And for the 176 million Americans who have private employer-sponsored insurance, their lower premiums averaged just under $1,000 per person. Barack Obama pledged on the campaign trail and as president that he would sign a health care bill that lowered family health insurance premiums by $2,500. Conservative politicians and pundits roundly mocked him. Yet the ACA has more than delivered on that promise, saving about $4,000 per family. And these lower health care premiums probably contribute to the recent rise in workers’ wages.

    At least three trends make it hard for Americans to appreciate these lower costs. First, employers are foisting more of the cost of health insurance onto employees. Employees’ share of health premiums has gone up 32 percent since 2012 while the employer portion has gone up just 14 percent. Second, drug prices are rising and Americans are finding copays for them more and more onerous. Third, more and more Americans are enrolled in high-deductible health plans. For them, a $2,000 or $3,000 deductible is stressful even if they never actually pay it

    The ACA changed how physicians and hospitals are paid, shifting toward more value-based payments. It required reducing wasteful and expensive readmissions and encouraged efficient redesign of care. And it spurred the private sector, insurers and employers, to try their own payment reforms, such as reference pricing, to control costs

    HARD FACTS: If Trump and the right-wing get their way:

    21 million Americans could lose their health insurance if the Affordable Care Act is overturned
    133 million Americans have a pre-existing medical condition that could raise their premiums or deny them coverage altogether if they sought insurance without the protection of the Affordable Care Act
    171 million Americans no longer face caps on expensive treatments
    60 million Medicare beneficiaries would face changes to medical care and possibly higher premiums
    2 million young adults 26 and under are covered by their parents’ insurance under the Affordable Care Act
    46.5 million non-elderly Americans (17.8%) were uninsured in 2010 before the Affordable Care Act was passed, almost double the latest figures of 27 million
    42% is by how much the uninsured population has dropped under the Affordable Care Act

    Is this what MAGA looks like? Having people choose between paying rent or buying critical medication that keeps them alive? At a time when one in four Americans are forgoing needed health care because they simply can’t afford to see their doctor or buy their prescription drugs, the Trump administration is making the situation worse

    Despite constant criticism and right-wing sabotage, the Affordable Care Act has successfully expanded health insurance coverage, even though it included individuals with pre-existing conditions, and controlled runaway health care costs. We need to build on its tremendous cost-control success

    http://bit.ly/2Pq0D5b

  3. New Zealand: No Intel Linking Sri Lanka Bombings
    Associated Press (7:30 AM EST)

    The office of New Zealand’s prime minister says she is aware of comments linking Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings to the mosque attacks in Christchurch, though it hasn’t “seen any intelligence upon which such an assessment might be based”

    The statement came Tuesday after Sri Lanka’s minister of defense, Ruwan Wijewardene, made the claim to Parliament, without offering evidence.

    The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka that killed at least 321 people, but offered no evidence. It offered no photographs or videos of attackers pledging their loyalty to the group.

    http://bit.ly/2PuqxVG

    • Comrade Reagan:
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      “The terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed at least 321 people on Easter Sunday, but provided no evidence.

      In a bulletin posted by its Aamaq news agency, ISIS said: “The perpetrators of the attack that targeted nationals of the countries of the coalitions and Christians in Sri Lanka before yesterday are fighters from the Islamic State,” according to a translation by the Associated Press.”

      http://time.com/5576053/isis-sri-lanka-easter-attack-responsibility/

      • BZZZZZZZZZZZZ! JethroBodine (aka Baghdad Bob) still batting a Big Zero

        Terrorist organizations publish claims to take “responsibility” daily. Does not mean Jack Crap

        The Sri Lankan Prime Minister said ZERO evidence

        • This really comes as no surprise to logical thinkers:
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          Scale of Sri Lankan attacks suggests Isis ‘sub-contracted’ bombings

          Local group National Towheed Jamaat would have needed help to mount such a complex operation

          …This “sub-contracting plus” model, as one official called it, has been seen before in south Asia and elsewhere. A bloody 2016 attack in Bangladesh on a bakery patronised by westerners is one example. A double bombing of Christian worshippers in the Philippines in January is another.

          Al-Qaida was once known for such operations but has in recent years tried to avoid indiscriminate mass murder. This is a pragmatic decision, taken solely because its leadership became aware such atrocities put off potential supporters and they hope to distance the group from the even more extreme Isis. It means nonetheless that it was always unlikely that the organisation that once killed 3,000 in a single operation in the US in 2001 was responsible for this latest atrocity.

          Quite how responsible Isis might be is another question.

          In its early years, the group’s claims of responsibility were usually a fairly reliable indication that it was directly involved in an attack. These often featured videos recorded by perpetrators, or other evidence. Since 2016, when Isis began losing terrain, this has no longer been the case. The group has claimed several attacks by Islamic militants where there has been no link, and some by individuals with very different motivations. Isis even claimed responsibility for a mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017.

          Security officials and analysts say they are treating this claim as credible.

          Several dozen Sri Lankans travelled to join Isis in Syria, with one dying as early as 2015. There have also been a very significant number of Isis volunteers recruited from the Maldives, which just a short flight away from Sri Lanka, and a far smaller number from southern India. The alleged leader of the NTJ reportedly fled to the Maldives, which has become a hub of Islamist activism in recent years, to escape the security forces’ attention in Sri Lanka.

          The possibility is high that someone from among this shadow world of travelling extremists, all connected through encrypted social media channels and some with battlefield experience, could be the “connector” that linked the amateurish Sri Lankans with those overseas who could give them the capability and confidence to commit mass murder. That Syrian returnees are also among the attackers is also very likely….

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/23/isis-sub-contracted-sri-lanka-bombings-to-serve-its-own-ends

      • It’s now around 9 p.m. in Sri Lanka, and the latest is:

        What happened: At least six suicide bombers were involved in six attacks (three at luxury hotels and three at churches celebrating Easter) across Sri Lanka on Sunday

        Who is behind the attacks? While ISIS claimed responsibility, there is no direct evidence the group coordinated the bombings

        Hey JethroBodine, the LEADERSHIP of Sri Lanka have not accepted the ISIS claim

        https://cnn.it/2vk3qno

  4. Just when you think left wing socialist can’t get any crazier, they do:
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    Kamala Harris on Allowing Boston Marathon Bomber to Vote from Prison: ‘We Should Have That Conversation’

    https://www.breitbart.com/

    • Why Are Conservatives So Angry About Obama’s Reference to “Easter Worshippers”

      To most people, former President Barack Obama’s tweet about the brutal terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday read as standard post-presidential material: correct, sensible, and essentially anodyne

      But then some right-wingers noticed that other prominent figures on the left had used the phrase Easter worshippers too. Soon, a suspicion arose that “Easter worshippers” is a euphemism used by “people who don’t want to say ‘Christians” and “We’re actually called Christians not Easter worshippers ” a National Review writer tweeted. Obama and friends “could not bring themselves to identify the victims of the attacks as ‘Christians” Breitbart huffed, deeming the phrase a “Sympathy Snub” and an op-ed in the Washington Times called Obama and Clinton “anti-Christian”

      Some went further, interpreting the term Easter worshipper as a false claim that Christians worship the holiday of Easter “We don’t worship Easter, We worship Jesus Christ” Laura Ingraham tweeted. One America News Network host Jack Posobiec claimed to have never heard the term Easter worshipper before Sunday

      Before Sunday, to be clear, the term Easter worshipper was considered straightforward enough that the AP used it in a headline about another recent church-based international tragedy “Tourists, Easter Worshippers Lament Closure of Notre Dame” but we are here to help: “Easter worshippers” describes Christians in church on Easter Sunday. The term is more descriptive than “Christians” because it conveys the additional fact that the victims were actively celebrating Easter when they were killed. They are worshippers, and it is Easter. If it helps, try putting the emphasis on worshippers in the phrase: It’s Easter worshippers, not Easter-worshippers

      Here is how the construction works in similar contexts:
      BBC: “Finsbury Park Attack: Roses for Ramadan Worshipers”
      The Guardian: “Afghanistan Suicide Bomber Kills Eid Worshippers at Mosque, Police Say”
      The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: “Homeless Couple Attacks Synagogue Worshippers in Buenos Aires”

      It takes a true (right-wing) savant of exquisitely attuned grievance collection to read an individual reference to “Easter worshippers” as an attempt to avoid acknowledging Christianity. Easter is the most important holiday in the Christian calendar. “Easter” has no other meaning. As a celebration, it is far less secularly degraded than Christmas. Bunnies aside, it is basically inaccessible as a holiday to anyone uncomfortable with acknowledging the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If anything “Easter worshippers” puts extra emphasis on the religious nature of the attack by pointing out that it happened on a day of special spiritual meaning to victims. It implies: Not only did you attack Christians, you did it today of all days

      Southern Baptist writer and professor Denny Burk argued that persecuted Christians may prefer the straightforward term Christians because it highlights the faith they are willing to die for. That would be a stronger argument if Obama and other Democrats had used a term like Sri Lankans, without any religious meaning. But they did not do that, they used a term that is inextricably associated with Christianity. In other contexts, conservative Christians make the point that not all holiday churchgoers are “real” Christians. As early-20th-century evangelist Billy Sunday once put it: “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile”

      Of course, “Easter worshippers” was never the real problem. The meat of the outrage is not that Democrats are afraid of the word Christian or that “Easter worshippers” is somehow an inaccessibly confusing phrase. The real implication is that Democrats supposedly have an insufficient concern for Christians as a persecuted identity group. This is an old theme: Obama came under attack in 2015 for failing to mention the religion of victims of a terrorist attack in Kenya. He was regularly criticized by the same cohort for failing to use the exact term Islamic terrorism. As Family Research Council president Tony Perkins put it at the time “When it comes to persecuted Christians, not only do we not have action, we rarely get words”

      The first draft of Trump’s “refugee ban” carved out exceptions for religious minorities from the Middle East, which he promoted on the Christian Broadcasting Network as a favor to Christians: “If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible. And I thought it was very, very unfair”

      Trump’s policies have actually made it significantly harder for persecuted Christians to enter the United States

      But at least he hasn’t used the term Easter worshippers

      http://bit.ly/2Pynzzz

  5. Most illegal immigrants in US receive government benefits, costing taxpayers billions: experts

    A FAIR study in 2017 found illegal immigrants are a net consumer of taxpayer benefits worth more than $100 billion a year, not including the cost of enforcing the border.

    While federal benefits are supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than 25,000 undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive free education and most qualify for English lessons and free school breakfast and lunch.

    Illegal immigrants do not qualify for Obamacare but under federal law, hospitals and clinics are required to provide urgent medical care without regard to legal status. Pregnant women are entitled to prenatal and postpartum care under the Women, Infants and Children program. Infant delivery costs are paid for by Medicaid. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a federal-state immigrant insurance program cost $2 billion a year in emergency treatment, not including the $1.24 billion in infant delivery expenses.

    Illegal immigrants are not entitled to food stamps, but families with U.S.-born children are. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 31% of such families use the SNAP program and more than 50% of Central American families in the U.S. use at least one welfare program.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-cost-of-illegal-immigration-migrants-cost-us-taxpayers-billions-a-year

    • JethroBodine (Baghdad Bob) left out the fact this comes from “director of the RIGHT-LEANING THINK TANK Federation for American Immigration Reform”

      Need some batting practice, dude

  6. An article that just nailed it! “Leftlandia”
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    It’s hard not to notice how little growing up those on the left have actually accomplished. They live in La-la Land, in Leftlandia, saturated in fantasies filled with pots of gold at the ends of LGBT rainbows. They never touch down. Just look at the fairytale multiverse they swoop around in:

    Leftlandians actually believe that the world’s climate is something they can control, that man is so much greater than the God Who created the world that humans can use so much toilet paper, or so much gasoline that they can undo creation. They also believe that using fossil fuels to generate electricity with which to run our cars is somehow more environmentally sensible than just using the fossil fuels directly. When someone points out the damage –- both human and environmental –- done by building all those lithium batteries, the Leftlandians just cover their eyes and holler La-La-La-La.
    In their unicorn-inhabited world they can pass laws forbidding plastic straws and shampoo bottles and assume that this terrible sacrifice will clean the oceans of the trash dumped into it by billions of people in the third world.
    They actually believe they can impose tax hikes on the wealthy and on corporations and said entities will just sit and take it. It doesn’t occur to the left that anyone smart enough to get rich in the first place will be smart enough to hide their money offshore, or move their business to a less onerous tax environment. Remember the little girl in your neighborhood who always wanted to boss everyone around and how mad she’d get when no one would obey her? That’s the left. “I’m the boss!”
    They continue to pretend that Marxism is a useful worldview. Evidence, preserved in gruesome history (and the current starvation of the Venezuelan and North Korean people) notwithstanding, they insist on the efficacy of the destruction of capitalism. And they do this while eating food produced by businessmen-farmers, driving cars manufactured by corporations, and wearing clothes created by designer-entrepreneurs. They fail to see the contradiction. Bernie Sanders, the consummate socialist, just declared that, “If you write a bestselling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” evidently unaware of the about-face he had just committed.
    They believe they can tell doctors that they now work for the state and can only earn a state-approved salary. It never occurs to them that many of our doctors will just quit being doctors. Free healthcare is a delicious fable, but not if there is no healthcare to be found at any price. It’s not a magic bean.
    They believe they can pretend to be a gender other than what they were born with and that if they can browbeat the rest of us into playing their game, that it will be true. They even believe they can make up new genders no one’s ever heard of before. They might as well imagine themselves to be unicorns as far as reality is concerned, but they’re not concerned with reality. It’s all play-acting.
    They believe that they can fake their way into college, go there and spend four years sitting in classes like “Vegan Studies,” smoking dope and drinking beer at frat parties, then walk into the real world and get rich. They think they can do this with college loan debt in six figures and no practical skills. And they think that their plan to soak the rich won’t apply to them.
    In Leftlandia, folks are comfortable with declaring women’s rights with half their words and supporting Islam, with its wife-beating, woman-hating, girl-mutilating way of life, with the other. They don’t find it weird that Linda Sarsour, outspoken proponent of Sharia law, should be leading a women’s rally.
    They do have trolls and goblins in their world, but they aren’t real. Leftists are afraid of Christians, but not of Muslims — who clearly state they want to kill us all. They are scared of Jews, and white people and men. They evidently see infants as dangerous as well since they seem so comfortable about killing them.
    They believe, all evidence to the contrary, that humans are all basically good — not including Christians, Jews, white people, and men. Therefore any failings they’re faced with are the fault of “society” or, in other words, the aforementioned groups –- and the NRA. Can’t forget that. As a corollary, they believe that war and crime can be erased by everyone “just getting along, “ which somehow doesn’t mean that they have to be kind to Christians, Jews, white people or men – especially men who belong to the NRA.
    They are staunch defenders of license (not liberty), but even more staunch believers in equality, for which they are willing to ditch freedom –- especially freedom of speech. Speech is dangerous and can pop their balloons, so that’s got to go.
    Speaking of language, in their postmodern, deconstructionist, intersectional world, words aren’t important. They can mean whatever a leftist wants them to mean. A white nationalist used to be a neo-Nazi skinhead, but now it refers to conservatives in general. A racist used to a person who based his opinion of people on the color of their skin. Now it means anyone who would write an essay like this. Words are bludgeons and no good leftist has any reverence for the sacred contract of language. In their fairytale world no actual truth exists and no moral code either, so there is no needs for honesty.
    They believe that the color of their skin matters. They believe their country of origin is important and should be worn like a battle scar.
    Which brings up another whole facet of their narrative –- they pretend that they aren’t really individuals, that they are nothing more than cogs in whatever gear they think they’ve been “oppressed” into. I suppose this saves the trouble of actually having to take responsibility for their own lives, but it also makes them slaves and they don’t seem to notice. They also think they can right the wrongs done to one group of long-dead people by taking from modern-day people who had nothing to do with the original transgression.
    And they believe they can’t lose. The Trump win in 2016 cracked the magical snow-globe they live in and now the emptiness of the Mueller report has dealt it another terrible blow. Not to worry, though. The fantasy must go on. They are sure that if they yell, “Collusion!” loud enough, Trump will dissolve into a flurry of fairy dust and be gone.

    The problem with all this is that it’s impossible to talk to people who live in such a place. They don’t speak the language of truth, of practicality, of reality. They’re still pretending, living in a world where the government is Rumpelstiltskin, endlessly spinning gold out of flax. How can we work to solve problems when all we have to work with are petulant children who are still waiting on their fairy godmother to bring them a dress for the ball?

    Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/living_in_leftlandia.html#ixzz5lvNv3J3s
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    • Leader of Right-Wing Border Militia Allegedly Said the Group Was Training to Assassinate Obama, Clinton, and Soros

      The leader of a right-wing militia in the news recently over allegations it forcefully detained asylum-seekers at the southern border in order to hand them over to Border Patrol agents reportedly once said his group was training to assassinate President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros, an FBI agent said in an affidavit filed Saturday in support of the man’s arrest

      Larry Mitchell Hopkins, also known as Johnny Horton Jr., was arrested Saturday on charges of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon and appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Monday. He is currently the only member of the militia group to face any charges

      The affidavit from the FBI agent came from reports to the agency’s public access line in October 2017 of “alleged militia extremist activity” in Flora Vista, New Mexico, according to NBC News. Hopkins “allegedly made the statement” that his group, the United Constitutional Patriots, was training for the assassinations “because of these individuals’ support of Antifa,” but it’s not clear to whom he made the statements. Hopkins’ attorney denied those allegations

      After the October 2017 calls to the tip line, the FBI went to Hopkins’ home and seized nine firearms, which Hopkins said belonged to his wife. At the time, he already had felony convictions for possession of a loaded firearm and felony possession of a weapon, as well as a conviction for impersonating law enforcement. Hopkins’ lawyer suggested to NBC News that his client was only now being arrested from the 2017 search because of the attention being paid to the militia group in the press

      Videos of the militia group stopping families of migrants at the border, sometimes at gunpoint, enraged immigrant and civil rights groups, who have claimed that the detainment amounted to kidnapping. The group has claimed to have captured up to 5,600 migrants and held them for Customs and Border Protection officers. According to CBS News, the owner of the land where the group had been camping kicked the group off his property on Monday

      Hopkins faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

      http://bit.ly/2PmSfDu

  7. Trump Transition Staffer Makes Case For Impeachment Based On Mueller Findings

    A former member of President Donald Trump’s transition team made the case for impeaching the President Tuesday, based on the evidence included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report. These comments come from LAW PROFESSOR wrote J.W. Verret . He served in 2016 as deputy director of economic policy on Trump’s transition team

    “Politics is a team sport, and if you actively work within a political party, there is some expectation that you will follow orders and rally behind the leader, even when you disagree”

    “There is a point at which that expectation turns from a mix of loyalty and pragmatism into something more sinister, a blind devotion that serves to enable criminal conduct”

    Verret specifically pointed to “roughly a dozen separate instances of obstruction of justice” in Mueller’s report, from Trump dangling pardons to “directly ordering people to lie to throw the special counsel off the scent”

    “At a minimum, there’s enough here to get the impeachment process started.”

    http://bit.ly/2vlgWqE

  9. Trump Approval Sinks 5 Points After Mueller Report, Tying All-Time Low

    President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped 5 points, equaling his presidency’s low-water mark, since last week’s release of the special counsel report into the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll

    Only 39% of voters surveyed in the new poll, which was conducted Friday through Sunday, approve of the job Trump is doing. That is down from 44% last week and ties Trump’s lowest-ever approval rating in POLITICO/Morning Consult polling

    NEARLY 6 IN 10 VOTERS (57%) DISAPPROVE OF THE JOB TRUMP IS DOING

    “President Trump’s approval rating has dipped to its lowest point of his term in the immediate aftermath of the redacted Mueller report release” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president stating “This week, 57% of voters disapprove, and 39% approve of the president’s performance, a net decline rating of –18 percentage points”

    Only three in 10 voters (30%) approve of the way Barr handled the case and 37% who disapprove. Nearly three in four Democrats (73%) want Congress to keep investigating

    More than 4 in 10 (41%) say they think Trump’s campaign worked with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election

    There great agreement on whether Trump tried to impede or obstruct the investigation. A plurality of 47% say he did while just 24% say he didn’t. More than 2 in 10 (20%) say Mueller found that Trump obstructed the investigation

    The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll surveyed 1,992 voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

    https://politi.co/2PpepVU

    • The economy got Nixon, Reagan and Bush reelected. It could do it for Trump, too.

      ….President Trump thrives on chaos, much of it his own creation. But it would be a mistake to assume that the reelection campaign of this most untraditional president will mirror the tumult of his 2016 effort. It’s too early to handicap 2020, but Trump may try to capitalize on some of the same factors that helped three modern Republican presidents, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, win reelection.

      The reelections of all three men were not always certain. Around this time in the 1972 election cycle, Nixon held only a modest lead over the early Democratic front-runner, Edmund Muskie, who in 1968 had been the vice-presidential running mate of Hubert Humphrey. In late January 1983, pollster Lou Harris found former vice president Walter Mondale leading Reagan 53 percent to 44 percent. John Kerry’s challenge to Bush was nip-and-tuck throughout 2004. Fast-forward to 2019, and Trump often trails some Democrats in presidential trial heats, but with his large, solid base and a continuing good economy, it isn’t hard to see how Trump could win again…..

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-economy-got-nixon-reagan-and-bush-reelected-it-could-do-it-for-trump-too/2019/04/23/b8920d34-65e6-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.394f180c1031

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