While he’s never admitted it publicly, President Trump is privately concerned that 2020 hopefuls Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have a message that might be hard to beat politically, The Daily Beast reported late Sunday.
According to four Republicans close to Trump who have heard the latest admissions, Trump has told friends and donors that he doesn’t think the “socialism” agenda will be “easy” to beat in a general election, according to the Daily Beast. Trump reportedly told donors in private last month that he understood the appeal of major components of Warren and Sanders’ presidential platform regarding student loan debt removal, calling it a “tough” position to run against.
“A lot of people think it’ll be easy to beat [in 2020],” he reportedly said. The “truth is, it might not be so easy. … You can have someone who loves Trump, but many people love free stuff, too.”
In public, Trump’s tone is significantly different. The mercurial President and the rest of the Republican Party have taken great pains to try to illustrate Warren and Sanders and other Democrats as socialists who mean to destroy the capitalistic American ideal.
Read the Daily Beast’s full report here.
I always love it when Donnie Dipshit refers to himself in the Third Person. Not. Crazy. At. All.
Why am I not believing this? Sounds like misinformation direct from the horse’s mouth.
For decades Republicans have found that poor whites are best entertained by blaming others. Tell them all their problems are some brown or black person’s fault, and the brown or black person is not as worthy a white person and they give you their votes.
The hard rubber is meeting the road as more and more working class whites find themselves facing retirement without adequate resources, unable to help their kids go to college, and spending a bigger and bigger percentage of their income helping insurance companies reach record profits. Simply blaming the other isn’t getting it done for a lot of people.
Republicans don’t begin to appreciate the appeal of Warren or Sanders because they can’t understand why the plebs would be interested in reaping the benefits of our society. For guys like Trump and McConnell those benefits are reserved for the Republican funding class.
He’s talking about corporations and rich people here, right?
Something else he publicly disses but then tries to do himself?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-taliban-tweet-barack-obama-secret-talks_n_5d75da7ce4b0645135709c78