{"id":40042,"date":"2020-06-05T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40042"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:43:25","slug":"trump-gop-losing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/trump-gop-losing-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump*\/GOP Losing Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The more time goes on, the better things look for Democrats in November, as criminal Fuhrer Trump* could not be doing more to sabotage himself and the Republican Reich, it he tried.&nbsp; Nevertheless, we cannot use this as an excuse for complacency.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"485\" title=\"0605Polls\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0605Polls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0605Polls.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Start here: Trump got 306 electoral votes in his 2016 win. Now, consider these 2020 scenarios (all calculations made via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/\">270towin.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>* If Trump loses Texas (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden, 270 electoral votes to 268 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>* If Trump loses Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 278 to 260.<\/p>\n<p>* If Trump loses Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 279 to 259.<\/p>\n<p>* If Trump loses Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 276 to 262.<\/p>\n<p>* If Trump loses Arizona, Ohio and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 271 to 267.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is not to say any of these electoral map scenarios are locked in. After all, we are still 152 days away from the November 3 election. (And, yes, I counted.)<\/p>\n<p>Rather, they are to note that <strong>Biden, as of right now, has a WHOLE lot of different paths to 270 electoral votes, while Trump has a dwindling number<\/strong>. And of course, the polls on released on Wednesday don&#8217;t even deal with potential trouble spots for Trump in Florida, North Carolina and Georgia &#8212; all of which he won in 2016\u2026&nbsp; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/04\/politics\/electoral-map-2020-election-donald-trump-joe-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump* is beginning to panic.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NLg_qCLwmK4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Polls Put Trump In A Perilous Political Position<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NLg_qCLwmK4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HbMvUR3hyk8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump calls campaign meeting as poll numbers fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HbMvUR3hyk8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJEMVfyi7zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Senate is slipping from Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lJEMVfyi7zw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In this Republican den of horrors, we all need some good news to give us hope and keep us sane, but remember this.&nbsp; If you aren\u2019t saying everything you can, you aren\u2019t saying enough.&nbsp; If you aren\u2019t working as much as you can, you aren\u2019t working enough.&nbsp; If you aren\u2019t helping all you can, you aren\u2019t helping enough.&nbsp; If you aren\u2019t giving all you can, you aren\u2019t giving enough.&nbsp; If you aren\u2019t doing all you can, you aren\u2019t doing enough.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more time goes on, the better things look for Democrats in November, as criminal Fuhrer Trump* could not be doing more to sabotage himself and the Republican Reich, it he tried.&nbsp; Nevertheless, we cannot use this as an excuse for complacency. \u2026Start here: Trump got 306 electoral votes in his 2016 win. Now, consider <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/trump-gop-losing-ground\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3817,3714],"class_list":["post-40042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-poll","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}