(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) With the exception maybe of MSNBC, perhaps no corporate media entity has more disdain for ex-President Donald Trump than CNN.
One of that network’s analyst has nonetheless acknowledged that Trump has a good chance of being sworn in as POTUS in January 2025.
The article by senior data reporter Harry Enten published on Sunday somehow made it through far-left CNN’s editorial/censorship process
“Political wisdom may have once suggested the former president’s bid for a second White House term would be nothing but a pipe dream. But most of us know better by now,” he said.
“Trump is not only in a historically strong position for a nonincumbent to win the Republican nomination, but he is in a better position to win the general election than at any point during the 2020 cycle and almost at any point during the 2016 cycle,” Enten declared.
Enten confirmed that Trump has a formidable lead over any primary rival, which is good news for Team MAGA if it holds.
“No one in Trump’s current polling position in the modern era has lost an open presidential primary that didn’t feature an incumbent. He’s pulling in more than 50% of support in the national primary polls, i.e., more than all his competitors combined.”
Enten, who also appears on camera from time to time, conceded that, according to surveys to date, Trump and Joe Biden are basically tied even though the duo are “the most disliked presidential nominees in polling history.”
The CNN analyst offered a disclaimer of sorts that “The good news for Democrats is that general election polling, unlike primary polling, is not predictive at this point. Things can most certainly change.”
In a concluding thought, Enten wrote the following, however, which probably didn’t delight the CNN constituency, including its rapidly diminishing audience.
“But for now, the chance that Trump is president in less than two years time is a very real possibility,” provided that he can prevail in a few, all-important swing states.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., represents one of those swing or battleground states that are up for grabs in the election.
In an apparently lucid moment, the Democrat told the New York Times during an interview that the news outlet edited/condensed “for clarity” that Trump is popular in the senator’s home state despite the indictments.
“You’re still seeing Trump signs everywhere in Pennsylvania. You have to respect his strength in all of that. Trump would be very competitive in Pennsylvania. But Trump has to perform above his ceiling. I think there’s a hard ceiling in Pennsylvania he can’t get past.”
As the 2024 election gets closer, however, polling data, signage, or a purported ceiling all could be irrelevant, given the Democrat machine’s already effective use of sketchy practices like mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting, along with its hysterical opposition to voter ID.
Insofar as electoral strategy is concerned, it’s a question whether Democrat elites think Trump is the strongest 2024 GOP candidate, which explains the ongoing attempt with lawfare to prevent him from running.
Alternatively, do the party bosses consider Trump — because of his legal woes and other issues — a weaker general election candidate than a struggling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?
Accordingly, do they believe that transforming Trump into a martyr through lawfare makes it even more likely that he gets the Republican nomination, thus enabling Biden, in their mind, to win more easily?
Trump has vowed that he’ll continue his run for the White House even if it means campaigning from behind bars after a conviction in one of the politically weaponized pending cases.
