The Democrats will be running on health care, jobs, education and infrastructure, and Trump's record.
How can they? They haven't done anything on any of those.
Neither has Trump. Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare with "better, cheaper, healthcare for all". He promised protection for those with pre-existing conditions. Trump has delivered: no replacement for Obamacare, higher premiums, higher deductibles, no coverage for women's reproductive health issues, and a lawsuit to repeal protections for those with the pre-existing conditions is wending its way through the courts on it's way to the Supreme Court, and 5 million people have lost their health insurance since Trump took office.
Trump promised to bring back manufacturing jobs: Trump has delivered market chaos with his trade wars. Trade deficits are increasing on all fronts - China, Europe and Canada, and US employers are no longer investing in plants, equipment or jobs, because they cannot plan the investments, when the President has a bad news day and slaps tariffs on their trading partners.
The manufacturing sector has officially enter a recession because all such investment has ceased. The Chinese are o longer buying real estate of opening manufactuing plants in the US, due to the ongoing trade war, which means the Foxconn deal, the $50 billion dollar investment, and the 30,000 jobs promised, are gone too, as is all of the tax dollars that the government of Wisconsin, and the government of the United States paid to Foxconn to secure that investment, is gone too. Foxconn got millions of US taxpayers' money up front, put it in their pockets, and walked away.
When Justin Trudeau signed the US/Canada/Mexico trade agreement, he joked that it should be called the Canada/US/Mexico Trade Agreement because Canada was the big winner in this deal. In May, Canada posted it's first ever
TRADE SURPLUS WITH THE USA.
Donald Trump, the "great negotiator", is just winning on every front.
Education: Trump gave America Betsy DeVos - a woman whose family "donated" $1 million to Republican Senators, to confirm her as Education Secretary. Since her appointment, DeVos has stumbled from one embarassing moment to another in the Education portfolio, as she continues to demonstrate her spectacular lack of qualifcations for, or ability to carry out this work. The woman can't even put out a grammatically correct press release, and US education rankings continue to drop like a stone compared to the rest of the first world. Meanwhile, at home, Trump took away the $500 tax deduction from teachers who spend money out of their own pockets for class room supplies.
Infrastructure: Trump promised to be the "Infrastructure President" ("I love to build things"). And he does love to build things and put his name on them. American infrastructure is crumbling. The Army Corps of Engineers has issued report after report about bridges, dams, and levies in danger of catastrophic failure, and there have been an alarming number of bridge collapses, sink holes, and other failures of infrastructure after generations of neglect by successive Administrations more concerned with tax cuts for millionaires, than infrastructure and investment. Since then, Trump hasn't made a single proposal for infrastructure spending, despite having said that he would put an infrastructure plan in place on "Day One" of his administration.
Trump's record: Chaos on the Border, Highest deficits and spending in history, with nothing to show for it for the 40% of the American people. Trump promised every worker would get a $4000 raise from the tax cuts. It didn't happen. He promised a fair shake for the American worker. He delivered nazis marching in the streets chanting "The Jews will not replace us". He promised safety and security. He delivered an increase in mass shootings and hate driven terrorism against minorities, many of whom cite Trump as their "inspiration".
Trump is the guy who was going to "Make America Great Again". Instead his language, his rhetoric, and his policies are designed to "Make America Hate Again".