GOP allies warn vaping ban will sink Trump in 2020

[RandySF]

Conservative leaders are circulating data to White House staff that claims adults who vape will turn on President Trump if he follows through with his planned ban on flavored e-cigarettes, Axios has learned.

Between the lines: The data (shown below) reveals that the number of adult vapers in key battleground states greatly outweighs the margins by which Trump won those states in 2016 — and they argue it could cost him reelection.

What we're hearing: "While parents may be concerned about e-cigarettes, the people who genuinely care about vaping as a voting issue so far outweighs the number of people Trump needs to win in 2020 that they are royally screwing themselves by doing this," Paul Blair, the director of strategic initiatives at Americans for Tax Reform, tells me.

Suburban moms concerned about vaping "don't have the same voter intensity on this as adult vapers do," an industry lobbyist said.
Florida, which Trump won by 113,000 voters, had about 873,000 adult vapers in 2016. They reason that if 1 in 8 vapers turn against Trump in 2020 because he foreclosed their vaping options, it could jeopardize the election.
Why it matters: If the FDA backs away from Trump's proposed enforcement policy, it would be the second time in recent weeks that political concerns prompted him to dial back government regulations.

Trump's openness this summer to expanded background checks cooled after the gun lobby and campaign advisers warned about bad internal polling.



https://www.axios.com/gop-allies-warn-vaping-ban-will-sink-trump-in-2020-16f766a4-7bcc-435f-9638-a80223df55ed.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I don't think they have to worry. That brain dead moron already forgot he

said that. Or will just pretend he never did. Lie about it. Then just wait for people to forget he even said it.

[NCLefty]

11. I agree he's unlikely to do this. He knows he already has a huge popularity problem.

I feel like that comment from him was a Trumpian distraction from whatever news story he was annoyed with.

[GReedDiamond]

2. Yeah, because all the other fascist fucked-up shit he's doing...

...pales in comparison.

That said, anything that chips away at his support is a good thing.

[lunatica]

8. I was going to post something just like this

What? There are still people who are so ignorant that they think banning vaping is the worst thing he’s done?! Jesus!

[applegrove]

3. Big nicoteen still at ot i see.

[dweller]

4. yeh that will do it :..

✌🏼

[mr_liberal]

5. Lucky for Trump, Democrats are just as bad on the issue.nt

[struggle4progress]

6. CDC Confirms 8th Vaping-Related Death

Carlie Porterfield
Sep 20, 2019, 06:36am

... The most recent victim was a St. Louis, Missouri man in his mid-forties who began vaping in May to treat chronic pain, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. By August 22, he was hospitalized with respiratory problems and died less than a month later, on Wednesday ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2019/09/20/cdc-confirms-8th-vaping-related-death/#2932d9174c98

Gun Violence in 2018

[eppur_se_muova]

7. I hope they tell him that on every issue.

He'll be so confused he'll twist like a weathervane and lose even more voters.

[comradebillyboy]

9. As a former two pack a day smoker I can believe this. Anybody who got between me

and my nicotine was the enemy. I've been nicotine free for 31 years but it was the most wonderful drug in the world. But when I smoked getting my nicotine was a big priority. The vapers won't be happy to get cut off from the most wonderful drug in the world. I dreamed about smoking for ten years after I quit. That shit is really powerful.

If I knew I'd die tomorrow, I'd go to the 7-11 and buy a couple of packs right now. Right now my favorite drug is single malt Scotch.

[Liberty Belle]

10. So being a racist, misogynistic, corrupt moron and traitor wasn't enough, but vaping is?

Apparently the tobacco industry thinks it has more influence than Putin. And for once I hope they are right, if that would mean the end of Trump.

[stopdiggin]

12. does seem a little backward doesn't it?

apparently you can put your hands all over our girlfriends, wives and daughters -- but keep yer cotton pickin' fingers OFF my guns and vaping supplies!
(just so we know where our priorities lie)