Laura Ingraham to Roger Ailes Widow: "We have to be prepared for Trump losing"

[kpete]

A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ailes’s widow, Elizabeth, invited Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a few others for dinner at her $36 million Palm Beach home. The political conversation around the table was melancholy, a person familiar with the gathering recalled. With COVID cases hitting record highs and Donald Trump’s poll numbers going in the opposite direction, guests agreed that Trump is probably incapable, or unwilling, to take steps to turn things around. “We have to be prepared for Trump losing,” Ingraham told her dinner companions, according to the source. Perhaps anticipating that Fox News could pivot in a post-Trump media environment, Ingraham said she’s been in talks to take over for Rush Limbaugh, who recently revealed his Stage 4 lung cancer might force him off the radio. “Laura’s really interested in Rush’s job,” a person close to Ingraham said. (Ingraham did not respond to a request for comment.)

In the days since the Palm Beach dinner, Trump’s political standing has slipped further. On Tuesday, Trump’s favorite pollster, Scott Rasmussen, released a poll showing Trump at 39% approval, the lowest number Rasmussen has ever recorded for Trump. Trump’s popularity among Republicans dropped four points since mid-June, to 80%. The dismal polling is one reason why visible cracks in Trump’s Republican firewall are increasing. Staunch Trump ally Lindsey Graham, facing a tough reelection, broke with Trump this week over the president’s Twitter attack on Black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and Trump’s defense of the Confederate flag. Yesterday aides to Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski said the three senators would not be attending the Republican convention next month in Jacksonville (if the convention even takes place, as Trump has backed away from his plan to deliver an indoor convention speech in front of 15,000 people).

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Very illuminating article. tRump is his own worst enemy--and that works for us. n/t

[live love laugh]

2. Bull. Shit. Something to throw people off guard intentionally from Faux no less.

Never. Trust. A. Republican.

[kimbutgar]

3. According to some professor at a university I never heard of said mf45 has a 91%

Change of winning re election.

President Donald Trump is almost certain to win reelection in 2020, according to a political science professor whose “Primary Model” has correctly predicted five out of six elections since 1996.

“The Primary Model gives Trump a 91 percent chance of winning in November,” Stony Brook Professor Helmut Norpoth told Mediaite Tuesday. He noted that his model, which he introduced in 1996, would have correctly predicted the outcome of all but two presidential elections in the last 108 years: “This model gets it right for 25 of the 27 elections since 1912, when primaries were introduced.”


Not only will Trump win, Norpoth’s model suggests, the president will expand his margin in the Electoral College from 304 electoral votes in 2016 to 362 in 2020. That would be nearly identical to the 365 electoral votes former President Barack Obama won in 2008.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-has-91-percent-chance-of-winning-reelection-political-science-professor/


Sorry I just don’t believe this! There can’t be that many stupid evil racists in this country. And thousands are dying because of the Corona Virus, Millions have lost jobs and people are angry and they are tired of having a spoiled petulant child who doesn’t give a shit about the Smerican people. obviously this guy didn’t look at the numbers of the 2018 election.


Keep crying Laura we’re coming for you in 2021.

[Takket]

4. tell that to Vegas..........

Biden is getting 2 to 1 odds to win. Vegas has no political bias.......... their goal is to make money and they don't do that by listing bullshit odds. if they gave trump a 91% chance to win the entire city would be bankrupt come November

[kimbutgar]

6. My sentiments exactly

[woodsprite]

8. Yeah, but are there that many stupid and faithless electors? nt

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Well, I'm prepared! There's going to be dancing in the streets baby!

(6 feet apart, wearing masks of course)

[kpete]

7. I will join you

My entire family is planning on it
I live in So Cal - I believe it will be quite a party
Masked & Distanced
&
DANCING IN THE STREETS!

[flibbitygiblets]

9. 👍