GOP fears backlash in suburbs

[struggle4progress]

BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND SCOTT WONG
08/31/19 05:48 AM EDT

... The GOP forfeited the House in 2018, largely after losing suburban women voters, a key voting bloc .. with whom Trump has proved particularly unpopular ...

The president has sent conflicting signals on taxes and gun reforms, retaliated against a European ally that refused to discuss a sale of Greenland to the U.S., lashed out at Jewish Democrats as “disloyal,” attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as an “enemy,” and suggested the next Group of Seven summit should be held at his own private Florida golf resort.

“Trump's not making any inroads in the suburbs. People either love him or hate him, and that's solidifying into concrete in the suburbs,” one House GOP lawmaker told The Hill. “This style is not helping that" ...

Trump’s present support in the suburbs is at dismal levels. An NBC News analysis updated last week shows him “underwater” in five out of six NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls carried out this year ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459436-gop-fears-trump-backlash-in-suburbs

[Control-Z]

1. Good!

I think it is simply wonderful!

[CatMor]

2. How could anyone possibly "love" trump.

[in2herbs]

3. Within the past week or so someone on DU posted an article about voting officials

detecting hacking in election machines. The gist of the story was that it wasn't important because it was the rural population.

So now we have evidence of recently hacked election machines in rural areas and it's those areas that need election propping up by the Repugs in order for Trump to win.

Must be Putin practicing for election day.

[Blue_true]

4. Surburban people need to pull their heads out of their asses and realize

that they are simply extensions of urban areas that they surround. Their jobs are in the urban areas or nearby, you only need to be driving near a big city at rush hour to see that. Suburbanites have NOTHING in common with rurals other than sharing the same country.

[uponit7771]

5. Trump is definitely going to cheat to win in 2020

[Sherman A1]

6. We can only hope that

people will stop voting against their own best interests.