Trump: Elizabeth Warren as my opponent “would be a dream come true”

[Hindsight was 2020]

Even though I gave the above posts a hard time, intuition says they're representative of the attitudes of many voters who swung to Trump. Not sure what the prospects are for winning them back and what effect that reality will have on the primaries. On the one hand, Democrats seem to be having some of electability jitters losing Republicans had 4 years ago. Remember when Rubio and Christie looked like they'd be well armed with electability cases in the primaries but maybe not enough to overcome Scott Walker's appeal to the base?

I’m not sure electability matters as much in an election with an incumbent.  2020 will probably be a referendum on Trump, so probably just about anyone capable of winning the nomination would be able to win the general election if Trump is unpopular.  (And won't be able to win if he's popular.)

You’d think this logic would hold as well even in elections without an incumbent, but it often doesn’t work that way.  E.g., Bill Clinton’s popularity not rubbing off on Gore, and ditto for Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, that's true. Which means Trump looking vulnerable might well attract a field the size of GOP 2016.

Can you think of 17 Democrats trying to defeat Trump?

Warren, Booker, Cuomo, Murphy, Hickenlooper, Tulsi, Castro, Bullock, Wolf, Bel Edwards, Cooper, Gilbrand, Newsome, Franken, Heinrich, DeBlasio, and Schatz

[Mr. Morden]

Trump is name checking her (or rather, name checking "Pocahontas") as someone who might be running against him in 2020 yet again:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pocahontas-elizabeth-warren-nra_us_59038939e4b05c39767f41fa

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[Beet]

Trump is name checking her (or rather, name checking "Pocahontas") as someone who might be running against him in 2020 yet again:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pocahontas-elizabeth-warren-nra_us_59038939e4b05c39767f41fa

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Man LOOOVES the campaign trail. Gotta give him that. Loves the crowds. Loves the adoration.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Trump is name checking her (or rather, name checking "Pocahontas") as someone who might be running against him in 2020 yet again:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pocahontas-elizabeth-warren-nra_us_59038939e4b05c39767f41fa

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Man LOOOVES the campaign trail. Gotta give him that. Loves the crowds. Loves the adoration.

If Bush 41 had been that way, he'd have been re-elected in 1992.

[I Won - Get Over It]

Interesting! It seems like Trump wants her to run. So he makes it personal by calling her out, which makes her run more probable, I think.

[Mr. Morden]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332456-in-warren-white-house-sees-potential-2020-foe

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[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

God, just reading the horrible grammar and lack of sentence structure in his quotes makes me squirmy.

Just tell yourself it's random noises coming from a mechanical head that your brain is forcing itself to try and make sense out of. That's close enough to the truth anyway.

[Pericles]

It would. If anyone thinks she's the candidate to win back those Obama-Trump voters, they're nuts. She's easier to attack and dog-whistle against than Hillary.

And Trump was supposed to be exactly the wrong candidate to break the Obama coalition and beat Hillary Clinton.

[Mr. Morden]

*bump*

Trump can't stop talking about Warren.  When asked about her in a Fox interview, he says that she has too much "hatred" and "anger", is "a highly overrated voice", and was probably an electoral drag on Hillary Clinton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJJo_W9zDc

[Saint Milei]

Warren has zero chance at the presidency. Ted Cruz would thrash her