Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020 Message

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low, companies are adding jobs and the gross domestic product grew by 3.2 percent in the first quarter, undercutting predictions of a coming recession.

Yet for all that political upside, Republicans demonstrated repeatedly last week that they were not positioning themselves to wage the 2020 election over the strength of the economy.

President Trump and his top advisers sent mixed signals about a possible war with Iran. Mr. Trump outlined a hard-line immigration proposal that had little chance of passing, but refocused attention on the most incendiary issue of his presidency. His drumbeat about tariffs on China sent the stock market gyrating. And in Alabama, the Republican governor signed a bill that would effectively ban abortion, the most recent and far-reaching of new state restrictions and a step toward a possible Supreme Court showdown over abortion rights.

Such divisive and destabilizing stands — driven by Mr. Trump’s political impulses and by emboldened conservatives — could end up alienating swing voters and could help Democrats who might otherwise be on the defensive over the nation’s relative prosperity, politicians and strategists in both parties said. And the longstanding verity that Americans vote with their pocketbooks may be tested in 2020 like never before.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/abortion-fight-or-strong-economy-for-gop-cultural-issues-undercut-2020-message/ar-AABzV0a?li=BBnbcA1

[SWBTATTReg]

1. rump has already energized a huge anti-rump movement against him. The GOP is simply killing ...

themselves over Iran and other issues (they already have the radical religious fringe groups on their side) and their other non-defensible positions on a lot of social issues. The tax cut bill of 2017 didn't help either.

[Ohiogal]

3. Are the farmers

benefitting from this so-called great economy? How about auto workers?

[Chickensoup]

2. As to the so called strong economy...

Time will prove that it is a temporary
Phenomenon as a result of of corporate
Tax bribery.
Tariffs and trade war will raise interest rates as inflation start to pick up and china scale back their purchase of us treasuries.
Stock market will decline sharply and wealth effect will gradually slip away and with it consumption .
Just on time for the 2020 election.
Let's see then what a weak economy
Will feel like!!!

[John Fante]

4. The GOP can't run on the strong economy because

thinking Americans (they're out there, trust me) correctly understand that shit-for-brains inherited it from the previous administration.


The economy was just as strong six months ago... when 60.7 million Americans gave Democrats the house. Because "at least Trump hasn't fucked it all up yet" isn't much of a winning message.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The strong economy did nothing for the GOP last Fall.

Where the economy is strongest (the blue/metropolitan areas), the GOP was kicked down a cliff.

Look at Connecticut, the GOP lost seats in the legislature in affluent Republican towns (Easton/Greenwich/New Canaan).

The GOP lost seats in Chester County PA and the outer Chicago suburbs (Historically Republican areas).

The GOP was a non-entity in Silicon Valley.

They lost seats in the affluent suburbs surrounding the cities in Texas and Georgia.

What does that tell you?

The good economy* did not help the Pubs last year and a recession will ruin them.

*No economy can truly be in good condition running on a trillion dollar deficit.

[Hugin]

6. I have my doubts as to whether the economy is all that great.

If it were why'd Munchkin get all of the banks to form an on-call PPT? Hmm?