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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 11:05 PM Dec 2018

Trump's coalition cracking over his policies and personality

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Jill Mott doesn't like the tweets. The hard line on the border is too hard. And when asked whether she will vote for President Donald Trump a second time, she lets out a long, deep sigh.

"That is the question," said Mott, a Republican from suburban Detroit.

In her moment of hesitancy, Mott is the portrait of a small, but significant slice of voters poised to wield considerable influence in the 2020 presidential campaign. They are the 18 percent of voters who described themselves as only "somewhat" approving of the president.

It's a group whose backing for Trump is most tenuous and whose reservations about his personality and his policies reveal warning signs for Republicans, perhaps even more so as he dug in on his demand for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, leading to a budget impasse with Congress that has shut down the government around Christmas.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-coalition-cracking-over-his-policies-and-personality/ar-BBRkWcd?li=BBnb7Kx

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Trump's coalition cracking over his policies and personality (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 OP
"In her moment of hesitancy" means no mental function higher than basic brain stem PSPS Dec 2018 #1
Balk. He's vile and anti-American. JHB Dec 2018 #2

PSPS

(13,594 posts)
1. "In her moment of hesitancy" means no mental function higher than basic brain stem
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 11:53 PM
Dec 2018
In her moment of hesitancy, Mott is the portrait of a small, but significant slice of voters poised to wield considerable influence in the 2020 presidential campaign. They are the 18 percent of voters who described themselves as only "somewhat" approving of the president.


I don't buy the claim that such voters "wield considerable influence in the 2020 presidential campaign," but I guess they have to fill up their feature stories with so many words per day. And the media has to have some kind of horse race to get people to click on things and generate revenue.

JHB

(37,160 posts)
2. Balk. He's vile and anti-American.
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 11:57 PM
Dec 2018

If you can only tepidly admit that then just cleave yourself to him and burn.

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