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Norbert

(6,041 posts)
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:15 AM May 2020

Exactly what can the incumbent President run on?




He can only run on two things:

1. Fear. Biden is going to take our guns away and they are killing the unborn. This strategy faces a real chance of backfiring. The NRA is in a world of hurt. Their executive leadership is in disarray and financially they can no longer mount a media campaign like they did in years past. Also, how can they demonize liberals as baby killers when the COVID-19 virus kills 2000 people a day?

2. Joe Biden and the 'Democrat' party are worse than we are. With the pandemic ongoing, possibly into the fall and beyond, compromising the rule of law (Flynn), and continuing to make stupid statements (like ingesting Lysol) I don't think this strategy will have the impact of years past.

Like I've been saying, I don't want trump to just lose, I want him beaten soundly. I want Biden to beat him so bad that they won't entertain an idea of a trump-lite candidate for generations to come.
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Exactly what can the incumbent President run on? (Original Post) Norbert May 2020 OP
Trump will run on lies. He'll deny facts and make up his own reality. His followers will believe it. sop May 2020 #1
+1 rampartc May 2020 #5
You got that right Chainfire May 2020 #6
Hate. DEbluedude May 2020 #2
He has these powerful facts to run on. Croney May 2020 #3
TRUMP / COVID 2020 "I killed 80,000 Americans and you'll still vote for me" uponit7771 May 2020 #4
3. The orange asshole will go full nazi soon. nt Javaman May 2020 #7
+1 2naSalit May 2020 #16
Well, the ad I saw them run this past week... MissMillie May 2020 #8
Voter Suppression JI7 May 2020 #9
Here's his campaign song (NSFW) Wounded Bear May 2020 #10
He will run Chainfire May 2020 #11
Run on being an Assface.. that's what he Cha May 2020 #12
God (abortion), Guns, and Gays....the ole gop playbook. Funtatlaguy May 2020 #13
He's God's chosen one. sinkingfeeling May 2020 #14
He doesn't run "on" anything. kentuck May 2020 #15
he made america great again beachbumbob May 2020 #17
Campaign: Trump will make the Chinese pay for giving us the virus Cicada May 2020 #18
Anti corruption duforsure May 2020 #19
This won him the last election, and if Biden runs on "I'm not Trump", he could win again. n/t hughee99 May 2020 #20
Hate and greed and free dumb . +God's will he rule lunasun May 2020 #21
Trump will run on worked last time. fescuerescue May 2020 #22
The high number of people he hasn't killed yet, even though they have a death wish. milestogo May 2020 #23
The same things he ran on in 2016 ibegurpard May 2020 #24

sop

(10,274 posts)
1. Trump will run on lies. He'll deny facts and make up his own reality. His followers will believe it.
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:21 AM
May 2020

Croney

(4,673 posts)
3. He has these powerful facts to run on.
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:23 AM
May 2020

He is not Hillary Clinton. He is not Barack Obama. He thinks white people are better than everybody else. He claims to be against abortion rights, although we know he doesn't give a fuck one way or the other.

These facts will produce votes. Many votes. From many stupid, selfish people.

MissMillie

(38,591 posts)
8. Well, the ad I saw them run this past week...
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:38 AM
May 2020

… pretty much said, "Oh woe is me! I've been ridiculed. I've been bullied. And once you people realize how unfairly I've been treated, you'll know that you need me to Make America Great Again."


Somebody call a whaaaaambulance.

Chainfire

(17,671 posts)
11. He will run
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:41 AM
May 2020

On personally saving over a million American lives due to his genius.

He will run on, only he can recover the economy to where he had taken it before.

He will run on Biden being even a more flawed character than he is.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
15. He doesn't run "on" anything.
Sat May 9, 2020, 09:12 AM
May 2020

He always runs "against" something. And he hopes his argument against is better than his opponents' arguments for.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
18. Campaign: Trump will make the Chinese pay for giving us the virus
Sat May 9, 2020, 09:49 AM
May 2020

Trump won in 2016 by blaming our problems on Mexicans invading from the south. Only he could protect us from the foreigners bringing crime and stealing our jobs. This time he will blame our problems on China, stealing our jobs and infecting us with the virus. Only Trump will protect us from the darkies from the south and the darkies froom the East.

For decades the Republicans have run on racial resentment. They all believe that those people are lazy, living off welfare taken from our taxes which they get instead of us just because of their color. With the Mexicans here without authority they somehow both take our jobs and also lazily live off welfare without working.

Trump is running as George Wallace Jr. Republicans are motivated primarily by racial resentment. Black before, then brown in 2016, now yellow.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
19. Anti corruption
Sat May 9, 2020, 10:05 AM
May 2020

Affordable health care, a just system of justice with consequences, and equality. Budget reform reducing the debt by increasing the top 10% more in taxes! until we're in much better shape. Production of real world now jobs, and major legislative updates protecting us from this again.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
21. Hate and greed and free dumb . +God's will he rule
Sat May 9, 2020, 10:34 AM
May 2020

Those things alone will bring in the various like minded of which there are too many imo

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