Quantifying the ‘Trump Penalty’

With only a few exceptions, polling has delivered bad news for President Trump of late. …

There is a fatalistic attitude among many experienced Republican elected officials and strategists about the president. At 74 years of age, his behavior or style is not likely to change. He does not seem especially open to advice from people who have been around politics and won far more elections than he has. This cake is baked.

The 2020 Trump campaign is sure to be vastly more sophisticated and better financed than the dumpster-fire organization in his 2016 effort. Yet if Trump is reelected, it is going to be because Democrats screwed up. CONT.

Charlie Cook