Trump triumph: US President soars in major poll that predicts victory in 2020 election

Despite being embroiled in impeachment proceedings, 56 percent of voters expect the President to be reelected in 2020, including 85 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of independents. By comparison, more than a third of Democrats (35 percent) say the same. The poll was conduced by the Politico/Morning Consult between November 1-3 online among a national sample of 1,983 registered voters.

The poll also found that voter enthusiasm for the election remains high, among Democrats and Republicans alike.

That enthusiasm would seem to translate into voting prospects, with 92 percent of respondents saying they are likely to turn out and vote in the election next year, including 96 percent of Democrats and Republicans and 86 percent of independents.

Commenting on the polling results, Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president told Politico: “President Trump’s reelection prospects seem to be energising voter enthusiasm across the political spectrum.

“Our data points show that Republicans and Democrats are equally inclined to say they are motivated and likely to vote in next year’s election.”

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Republicans remain generally more upbeat than Democrats about their respective election prospects.

Democrats were most likely to say they are hopeful (26 percent) and worried (24 percent) about the election, while Republicans were most likely to say they are hopeful (19 percent) and confident (17 percent) about the election.

Earlier in the week, the former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci predicted that the US President would be “jettisoned” from the White House by March 2020 to give the Republican Party a chance of winning the Presidential Election after the party lost key seats in Kentucky and Virginia.

Donald Trump headed off to Kentucky in a vain last-minute attempt to win over support for the Republican gubernatorial incumbent Matt Bevin as he branded Democrat Andy Besher as “too extreme and too dangerous” to govern the southern US state.

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Former White House Communication Director Anthony Scaramucci suggested the loss in Kentucky, and a parallel loss of control of the legislature in Virginia, will lead to Republican Party members soon “jettisoning” President Trump in an attempt to cut their losses before next year’s Presidential Election.

Speaking to the Today programme, Mr Scaramucci said: “Tonight’s total repudiation of the President in places like Kentucky and Virginia is also sending a signal to the Republicans in Congress, in both the House and the Senate, they got to get away from him if they want to survive.

“He’s devastated the farmers in a lot of those states. While he is tied and ahead of people like Warren, he is behind people like Biden and let’s all accept that the polls are quite early.

“But what I think what has happened here is that people are getting deprogrammed from a cold – as they start to awake and get an awareness of ‘wait a minute.’

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“They are backing the wrong guy, they are backing a demagogue, they are backing a false god.”

Asked whether he expects Congress to proceed with the impeachment process and oust President Trump, Mr Scaramucci replied: “Absolutely, 100 percent.

“He’s not going to be the Republican nominee – that’s my story, I’m sticking to it. I’ll give you a timeline, too.

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“By March, they [the Republican Party] are going to have to jettison him so that they have a viable fight come November.

“As this thing goes down, it will be irrefutable – very similar to what happened to Richard Nixon in August of 1974.”

Republican President Richard Nixon was impeached in August 1974 after he was found to have helped to cover up a break-in into the Democratic National Committee’s office inside the Watergate office complex two years earlier.

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Members of the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives last month voted in favour of formalising an impeachment inquiry into the US President.

This was a result of claims Mr Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine into conducting an inquest into the son of former US Vice-President Joe Biden.

An anonymous whistleblower claimed the US leader attempted to coerce Kiev into investigating Hunter Biden by allegedly threatening to withhold aid.

source: express.co.uk