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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are in a economic and health crisis and this is just the tip of the iceberg...
It has all the earmarks of a recession. Has any sitting President ever won reelection during a recession or economic crisis? I don't think so.
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We are in a economic and health crisis and this is just the tip of the iceberg... (Original Post)
SummerSnow
Mar 2020
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. tRUMP can't be re-elected since he was never elected in 2016, but our crisis is very real.
Sukee
(29 posts)2. But.....
Has any sitting president solicited the help of foreign countries to hack the election for office? It's not about the recession or the economic crisis. It's about Russia getting into our elections again for Trump. So, while the question may pertain to any ordinary sitting president, Trump is not ordinary, normal, nor anything that makes sense.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,307 posts)3. We always have been. Now it's just affecting more people.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. I'm not sure there is any precedent that compares.
This is new ground. It also has the earmarks of contraction and/or depression but still no reasonable comparison.
Hugin
(33,047 posts)5. The closest I can come up with is the US Civil War...
But, that only involved... The US.
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)6. K&R, without nationwide unfettered testing this will get worse and worse
JCMach1
(27,553 posts)7. If it lasts beyond four weeks we will be in depression
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