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Professor who predicted Trump’s win suggests Michelle Obama could outperform current Democrat field
January 3, 2020
In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first former First Lady to run for president. Now, one political observer is suggesting that Michelle Obama could become the second.
Allan Lichtman is a history professor at American University who successfully predicted President Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016, and he recently spoke to The Daily Caller about Obama’s chances.
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Strong potential
According to Lichtman, Obama stacks up well against the other contenders. “She comes out extraordinarily well with the Democratic rank and file,” he began. “She has the charismatic potential.”
“She has the pizzazz the candidates don’t have. Bernie Sanders has pizzazz, but he’s like Trump. He appeals only to a narrow slice of the electorate. He’s not a Franklin Delano Roosevelt or a Ronald Reagan.”
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Further, while it’s true that making a late entry into the primaries can be more difficult, Lichtman believes that it wouldn’t necessarily be a bar to success.
“There are rules that would prevent her from being nominated at the convention, but rules can be changed,” he conceded. “I think it’s a long shot, but I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility.”
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Michelle Obama has repeatedly denied any intention of running for president, but the possibility would likely be welcomed by Lichtman, a decided anti-Trumper who argued that Trump’s presidency is “an existential threat to humanity” in his 2017 book, “The Case for Impeachment.”
Possible paradigm shift
At this point, Lichtman says that November is still “too close to call,” and that if Trump pulls out a second victory, then it could force Democrats to reconsider the type of candidates that they have been willing to nominate.
“Democrats for decades thought they had solved the electability problem. Nominate a safe, experienced, proven, centrist candidate,” the history professor said.
“Michael Dukakis in 1988, Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, Clinton in 2016. Of course, what all those candidates had in common is they all lost. So traditional ideas of electability are not only meaningless, they’re misleading,” Lichtman said.
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“I think you’ve seen the last of the old generation of Democrats. The Bidens, the Sanders, the Warrens, people 70 years and older will not be in contention in 2024,” he continued.
“You’re going to see a new generation of Democrats coming up,” Lichtman predicted. “Maybe Adam Schiff, I could see Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Julian Castro. The next generation that didn’t make it this time, I could see rising in 2024.”
Katie Hill Accuses Trump of Starting a War to Distract from Impeachment
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Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) accused President Trump on Friday of attempting to start a war with Iran to distract from impeachment.
This disgraced former congresswoman, who resigned from Congress after mounting allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with congressional staffers, accused the president of trying to “start a war to distract from impeachment.”
“A lot of us have been wondering for a long time now if @realDonaldTrump was going to try to start a war to distract from impeachment,” she wrote. “With his trial heading to the Senate imminently, we’ve got our answer, folks”:
A lot of us have been wondering for a long time now if @realDonaldTrump was going to try to start a war to distract from impeachment.
With his trial heading to the Senate imminently, we’ve got our answer, folks.
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Hill’s remark follows the U.S. airstrike that resulted in the death of Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani, who directed terrorist proxies across the region and is responsible for the death of thousands. The Pentagon described it as a defensive action, confirming that Soleimani “was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.”
“This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,” the statement read. “The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.”
Trump defended the action on Friday, telling the nation, “Under my leadership, America’s policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harm or intend to harm any American. We will find you. We will eliminate you.”
“We will always protect our diplomats, service members, all Americans, and our allies,” he said.
“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” he added:
“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.” – @realDonaldTrump
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Hill’s assertion that the president ordered strikes to eliminate the murderous terrorist only to distract from impeachment suggests that the partisan impeachment effort is hurting Trump in 2020. Recent polls, particularly from Trump-won districts represented by Democrats, suggest otherwise, showing the majority of voters opposing the effort against the president.
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