Taxes, immigration, healthcare, national defense, foreign policy, domestic policy, etc etc.
And each hill he overruns he gains additional support.
Democrats are determined to get him reelected.
I think Dummycraps have a winning message:
- Get rid of guns
- Open our borders
- Let anyone come here and take our shit
- Get rid of ICE
- Raise everyone's taxes
- Screw up the economy
- Harass everyone you don't like
Yep.....they should take back Congress with that message
That's not really their "message" , that's just the background noise, the current message boils down to nothing more than:
"
Trump's an asshole, the Republicans suck, vote for us because we suck less"
IMHO Given the current partisan pendulum arc, that by itself is enough to give the Democrats better than a 50-50 chance of taking back the House, the Republicans are going to have to work REALLY hard to keep the House, the Senate not so much because they have an enormous advantage because of the map. So absent any major Democrat screw ups the state affairs leaves them with a good shot at the House.
The wild card is Trump himself, he's made his bones being underestimated and using a "
watch this shiny bauble over here while I attack you from over there" strategy, I think *MAYBE* that's what he's doing on with all this trade friction he's created. He is addressing legitimate trade imbalances, however I find it odd that he's taken such a confrontational approach right off the bat, especially in an election year, however there's also a possibility that he's setting up a scenario to clear it before the mid-terms. He's already got some concessions from the Chinese and our NAFTA partners on the table (which so far he's passed on) and the EU is signaling a possibility of multilateral negotiations on normalizing Automobile tariffs.
If he were to clear these trade tensions before the mid-terms (and after the "
sell in may and go away" summer months), the financial markets would likely realize significant upside since trade war fears are already largely priced in. He could also take credit for a number of terms of trade wins by collecting those concessions that have already been offered up and benefitting from likely upward adjustments in Q3 GDP growth projections.
Just a theory, but as one that has underestimated Daffy Don in the past (I never thought he would win in 2016 and was skeptical that he could get tax reform passed), I'm a bit suspicious about what he's up to on the timing of this hardball trade stance. The Democrats better beware or he just might beat them upside the back of the head again.
