President Trump calls them suppression polls, the endless polls that the liberal media puts out showing how much support for this administration is in the toilet. They are designed to demoralize his base. They didn’t work in 2016, and they won’t work in 2020. The polls were flawed. The polls for the 2020 general election are garbage right now. They’re worthless. It’s way too early. Everyone knows that — and even some Democrats would concede that they won’t win by a nine-point, double-digit margin next year. If anything, the media is simply reminding Trump voters that they have to vote next year. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has a three-person race for the 2020 nomination between former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders. There are at least a dozen other candidates, and still — anything can happen. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had a forceful showing in the first round of debates. She gained attention, and then some looked at her record. She fell 12 points in the latest Democratic candidate polls.
Biden has been criticized; now he’s a blunder machine. President Obama’s record was also burned during the second round of debates on CNN, raising eyebrows. Will beating the most popular Democrat in recent years earn you the nomination? No. While the left continues to slash, slam, jab, and shoot each other in the primaries, the Trump White House is running what is essentially an election campaign. The war chests are flush, the RNC is raking in cash, and he’s holding rallies in key swing states. Yes, that’s what Obama did in 2012—and Democrats know it. Members of the Democratic National Committee spoke with The Daily Beast, who expressed their concerns. The panic can be aptly applied to what they said, especially in terms of the sense that Trump is beating them on all fronts. There’s also some frustration that Chairman Tom Perez continues to ignore Rust Belt voters. Overall, he worries that Trump’s team is already reaching out to undecided voters, while Democrats are content to reach out to their base (via Everyday Beast):
Jim Zogby, co-chair of the DNC’s Ethnic Affairs Council, a group representing people of all ethnic, racial, national and religious identities, says he has urged Perez and other party leaders to expand their campaign reach to voters in the same areas Trump won: Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (a sore spot for Democrats in post-2016 politics).
However, attempts to contact the commission remained unanswered.
“In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, if we have events in those states that are focused on everyone else but them, it creates resentment,” Zogby said. “That’s why [former Vice President Joe] Biden and [Sen.] Bernie [Sanders I-VT] They do well because they talk to these people.”
Zogby was specifically referring to voters from Irish, Italian, Polish, Eastern European, Arab and Armenian-American communities, concentrated primarily in the Midwest.
“I am incredibly frustrated by the complete neglect of the constituencies I represent,” he added.
Zogby’s biggest concern — echoed by several other current DNC members who spoke to The Daily Beast — is that the Trump campaign is already reaching out to undecided voters, while the Democratic Party is overwhelmingly focused on expanding its existing electorate.
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“Donald Trump is in general election mode while we’re still in primary mode. We’re seeing that in Ohio,” said David Pepper, the state Democratic Party chairman. “He’s absolutely bombarding Ohio online. We’re doing everything we can to respond.”
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…a DNC official with direct knowledge of key state operations suggested that all of those messages have yet to trickle down to concrete action at the local level.
“There are some deep fears growing beneath the surface. Nothing has filtered through to the public yet,” the member said. “Where is all the support? They keep talking about calories coming. People generally feel that Trump is beating us on all fronts right now.”
Many party insiders said the party’s fundraising woes continue to be a problem compared to the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign’s significant lead.
“The DNC is currently struggling with a lack of funding,” one member said bluntly.
In June, the Republican National Committee more than doubled the amount raised by the DNC, reaching $20.7 million and $8.5 million, respectively.
That’s good news, but Trump and his team can’t let up. Keep doing what you’re doing. The Democrats are motivated. They want to throw him out of office. But the GOP has an incredible opportunity to define the Democratic Party and their 2020 nominee eons before they do. Based on the debates so far, they are the party that supports gun confiscation, more taxes, more regulations, taxpayer-funded abortion up until the moment of birth, health care for illegal immigrants, open borders, and the destruction of private health insurance; that’s the only way Medicare for All can work. The issue they dominated the GOP on in terms of voter confidence — health care — could have been the killer in the 2020 money wars. That’s all over now. It’s the debate about whether to kill over 100 million employer-based health plans now or later, with the added bonus of imposing the mother of all middle-class tax hikes to assist pay for it. Trump has over 3 million jobs, economic growth, bigger paychecks, lower taxes, less regulation, and petite business and consumer confidence at multi-year highs. It’s not a challenging choice next year.
