Penner wrote:Pence would be a much harder candidate to run against than Trump, for the Dems. I mean right now Trump has like a
41% percent approval rating (which is very low) and that GOP healthcare bill that he first approved of and then tried to backtracked- plus the bombing of Syria, really did a number with his more hardcore supporters. I mean, sure I do think that the majority of American would look the other way for the things that he can say about Muslims, blacks, illegal aliens, etc... but if Trump keeps on trying to push things like shitty healthcare bills, or just pretty much any shitty legislation that his party wants to pass, would eventually has to catch up with him. You know it is a law of averages kind of thing; there is just so many times that it won't backfire on Trump and/or the GOP before Americans get fed up and vote for the other guy.
Although, 2020 is still pretty far and one Mid-term election away. So, Trump does have time to do things and maybe he will get reelected.
Yet there's one point here with the
2020 Pence candidacy, which is negative for Pence:
That is that Trump has already "started" the 2020 campaign and surely won't
voluntarily choose to be only a 4-year President. Hence something has had to happen that Pence would be the candidate. And that Trump's popularity is so low he chooses not to run, Trump's health is too bad
or that Pence is already in 2020 acting as President, which the last case surely isn't beneficial to him.
The usual time for Pence to take a go for the office would be 2024 (he'll be then 65, btw, hence younger than Trump now). Yet one should remember that Gerald Ford did compete decently against Jimmy Carter, even if he hadn't never been on the Presidential campaign trail and had been President for two years. And George Bush won even after eight years of Reagan.
