Some of the biggest challenges facing the president’s reelection, 14 months before election day
If there is one thing we learned from the 2016 presidential election, it’s that the polls cannot be trusted. In fact, four years ago, it’s not even clear that Donald Trump believed he could be elected president. In light of this, it’s difficult to understand why recent polls, which show Trump losing to all five leading Democratic contenders, are being taken so seriously.
The decided majority of Americans are not paying attention to the elections at this point. On the Democratic side there are still 20 major candidates, and people can’t keep track of every rally, every tweet, and every political scandal that makes news for two days — and then disappears forever. Therefore, the question of whether or not Trump is leading or trailing will only become significant in July 2020, when we know the identity of the Democratic nominee.
Despite this, it’s difficult to escape the perception that more and more barriers are piling up on the way to Trump’s reelection. Only three months ago, the president was on top of the world. The Russian collusion investigation turned out to be the proverbial mountain that gave birth to a mouse, the economy was better than it had been in years, and Trump was navigating between unprecedented summits with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and enacting crippling sanctions on Iran.
But the situation has changed over the past few weeks, mostly because Trump seems to be his own worst enemy. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest challenges facing the president’s reelection, 14 months before election day.
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