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Forget the polls, rampaging Trump’s going to win easily in 2020

By Piers Morgan for MailOnline

Unless Democrat ostriches drag their heads out of the sand and wake up to reality

The polls don’t look good for Donald Trump.

I mean, by any normal yardstick, the President is heading for a defeat in the 2020 election.

He’s lagging behind in many of the crucial states that swung the White House his way in 2016 – like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Indeed, the polls look so worrying that Trump’s team fired several internal pollsters when the shock numbers leaked, in a Kim Jong-un style ‘do not bring the boss bad news’ move.

Yet when Trump launched his 2020 campaign on Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida, I didn’t sense I was watching a guy who’s going to lose.

In fact, I got the complete opposite feeling.

Trump exuded the confident all-conquering swagger of someone who defied all polls and logic last time, and fully intends to do so again.

It was a virtuoso Trump rally performance, carried out with all the passion, energy, chutzpah and showmanship of another septuagenarian, Mick Jagger, strutting around a big stadium.

Like any great entertainer (and I appreciate not everyone finds Trump entertaining…), he belted out all his greatest crowd-pleasing hits from The Wall and ‘Fake News’ media to the rigged system, special counsel Mueller’s ‘witch-hunt’ and ‘bogus’ Russia collusion.

There was some recently added material, including repeated attacks on ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ and Trump even revealed a brand new recording – his debut impression of ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton saying during one of their 2016 TV debates, ‘If I win, are you going to support me?’

The audience loved it all, roaring their approval throughout.

And of course, liberal-dominated Twitter hated it, roaring its own disapproval throughout as clips hit social media.

The vast chasm between pro-Trumpers and anti-Trumpers is just as wide and divisive as it’s been since his shock election win.

But the President’s demeanor should strike the fear of God into his opponents, because he looks and sounds in the form of his short political life.

When I interviewed Trump in London during his UK state visit several weeks ago, I remarked to people afterwards that I had never seen him so relaxed, or indeed presidential.

It seemed as if the lifting of the toxic, draining Russia collusion and Mueller report millstone had not just reinvigorated him, but newly empowered him.

I think the whole bitter experience – based on what turned out to be a falsehood that he colluded with Russia to fix the 2016 election – made him realize it’s pointless trying to persuade those who hate him to like him.

Instead, he’s refocused on ensuring all those who like him vote him in again.

Though the truth is Trump’s never really stopped campaigning.

He’s spent two-and-a-half years bombarding Americans with relentless self-aggrandizing tweets, speeches, rallies and media interviews – all designed to keep his base pot boiling.

And his strategy has clearly worked.

Everyone seems to forget that Trump won with just 46.1% of the national vote in 2016. His current approval rating is around 45%.

And as the New Yorker reminds us today, the day before the 2016 election, just 37.5% of American voters – according to Real Clear Politics poll average – had a ‘favorable’ opinion of Trump.

So, either the polls were wrong or a lot of people voted for Trump despite not liking him.

The latest R.C.P. poll average shows Trump’s favorability opinion at 43.8% – over six percentage points higher than when he won last time.

The reason for this is almost certainly due to the indisputably excellent performance of the U.S. economy.

GDP numbers are strong, unemployment has fallen to an historic low of just 3.5%, and stock markets have surged to record highs.

 

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