Analysis: Trumpworld's plan to reelect the president
Eight Democratic candidates for president are polling at zero in New Hampshire, and this is The Trailer.The president's Wednesday night rally in the Florida Panhandle much of a theme. He took shots at Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O'Rourke. He attacked China for its aggressive turn in trade negotiations, then shrugged that “It'll work out." And he appeared to laugh when a crowd member yelled about shooting undocumented immigrants.
; the president's supporters, Republicans say, do not care if he once attacked this sort of politics. to a Trump landslide. Trumpworld isn't that cocky; donors to America First Action are told that just 164 electoral votes are locked in for the president, while 13 states will see at least some kind of competition and spending.
Getting those voters means persuading some holdouts, chiefly the ones who came out of 2016 disliking both Trump and Hillary Clinton. The sharpest tool for winning them over, Republicans say, is information about the president's lower-profile wins — everything from anti-opioid legislation to projects such as rebuilding that Air Force base in the Panhandle.
The Democrats' busy presidential primary didn't affect these calculations, but its crowded nature both helps and hurts the Trump effort. Unlike in 2016, when Republicans inherited decades of messaging against Hillary Clinton, there is relatively little research yet on what attacks would work on the possible Democratic nominee.
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