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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou can't make this s--t up. Trump says he's more popular among Republicans than Lincoln was
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Josh Barro
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Deep in that Sun interview, Trump brags that his poll numbers with Republicans are even better than Lincoln's were. Lincoln died a decade before the telephone was invented and about eight decades before presidential approval polling began. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6766531/trump-may-brexit-us-deal-off/
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You can't make this s--t up. Trump says he's more popular among Republicans than Lincoln was (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2018
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. His good friend Frederick Douglass told him so
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)2. Republicans...
would definitely prefer Trump over Lincoln. Lincoln favored "big government" over "states rights" and thought non-white people should be free citizens!
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)3. "Mr Trump also said Mrs May's nemesis Boris Johnson would 'make a great Prime Minister'."
Real civil guy
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)4. Polls were done by telegraph in those days.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)5. A Lot Less People Too, You Idiot...
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)6. Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell
we're both laughing over this just now.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)7. Lincoln was never nominated for an Emmy, either. (n/t)
area51
(11,920 posts)8. More evidence that Trump needs to have the 25th amendment used.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)9. He almost certainly is...
...if today's Republicans are the ones being polled.