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Is Trump On His Way Down the Tubes?

Mike Weisser
3 min readAug 15, 2024

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For all the talk a month ago about how everyone hated Joe and Trump was easily going to sweep back into the Oval Office for another term, let me throw a question out to everyone: Do you think there’s a chance that we might see a Democrat(if) sweep like some of us who are at least 75 years old saw back in 1964?

In that election, Johnson got 486 electoral votes, Goldwater got 52 EV’s. Johnson carried 44 states plus DC, Goldwater carried 6 states.

As for Congress, the Democrats picked up 2 Senate seats and 37 seats in the House, giving us a veto-proof majority in both chambers, and enough votes to get any piece of legislation onto the President’s desk.

When was the Medicare/Medicaid bill passed? 1965. The GOP has been trying to get rid of both programs ever since.

Back at the beginning of June, Donald Trump was slightly ahead in the seven most important battleground states. AS of last week, he was only ahead in one of those states — Nevada — where his lead has shrunk from nine points to three.

In the other six swing states, Kamala and Tim are ahead in five states and tied with Trump in a sixth state.

The gap between the contesting tickets still isn’t that large, but Trump hasn’t moved further ahead in any of these states over the last month, and now there’s…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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