I’m sticking by my prediction that you won’t see the Democratic Presidential nominee spending any time in South Dakota in 2020 unless someone on her plane has a medical emergency like that Seattle-bound guy yesterday over Pierre. But South Dakotans may be coming to their senses about the Incompetent-in-Chief who snookered them into putting a Manhattan-silked Archie Bunker in “charge” of our country. The same Morning Consult polling that found Donald Trump holding onto a a ten-point net approval rating in South Dakota in July now finds him with a meager one-point net approval rating in September:
Don’t expect Team Warren to fly in this weekend, and don’t expect Scyller Borglum to read this chart, reverse her campaign strategy, and start whacking Senator Mike Rounds over the head with his Trump-facilitation: Morning Consult’s numbers show Trump still enjoys 89% approval among rural GOP primary voters; Trump’s approval dips below 80% only among the age 18–29, slightly conservative, moderate, post-grad degree-holder, and politically uninterested slices of the GOP primariate. So turning against Trump won’t turn heads toward any Republican challenging Rounds.
But Dan Ahlers, right now, 49 out of 100 people you meet on the street and ask for a vote thirteen months from now may be open to an argument that we need a Senator who will check, not make excuses for, an underperforming President. RIde that wave, Dan!
Nationwide, Gallup finds Trump at 56% disapproval and 40% approval. At this point in his first term, President Barack Obama rated 49% disapproval and 43% approval.
Lawyer-without-a-practice Joel Arends claims on FaceBook that twitterpate45 is doing a “fabulous job.” Bob Newland challenged him and got this from one of the most indefatigable defenders of the worst president in history:
“I know the Orangeman scares you…but, let’s list the accomplishments in addition to working to root out the corruption and abuse of power from the Obama/Biden administration: – 4 million jobs created since election.
– More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
– More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since the election.
– Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
– Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
– New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
– Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
– African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
– Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
– Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
– Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
– Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
– Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
– Veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
– Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
– The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
– 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
– Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
– Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
– As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
– Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
– Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
– Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
– Record number of regulations eliminated.
– Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
– Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
– Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
– Reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
– Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
– Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
– Reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during first year in office.
– Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
– Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
– United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
– Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
– Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
– NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
– Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
– Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
– Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
– Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
– Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
– Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
– Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
– Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
– Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
– Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
– Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
– Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
– Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
– We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME.”
I see several “accomplishments” for which twitterpate45 can’t honestly take credit. I also see quite a few items that are simply BS or are actually negative in effect.
Wow!!! All that along with 12,000+ lies, uncounted insults, shrinking alliances, loss of our national reputation internationally and incompetence that is unmeasurable. Oh yeah, he cheats at golf.
Sure do love winning.
From VOX….. Job growth slowed a bit in September, with 136,000 new jobs added to the US economy, compared to 168,000 (revised) positions created in August, according to the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages actually fell.
The slowdown — led by a loss of retail and manufacturing jobs — suggests that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is hurting industries that depend on exports and imports.
For the first time in years, manufacturing jobs are starting to shrink, creating a potential political liability for the president. One of his key campaign promises was to bring manufacturing jobs “roaring back to life.”
But in September, the US economy lost 2,000 factory jobs. The retail industry lost 11,400 positions.
These numbers are preliminary, and may later be revised. But those losses help explain why overall economic growth has been so sluggish lately.
In other respects, the latest job report shows a US economy that is doing okay.
The unemployment rate, for example, dropped even further, to 3.5 percent. That’s the lowest rate of unemployed Americans recorded since December 1969.
Yet none of this means much to middle- and working-class families: Workers’ hourly wages dropped by a penny in September. While that might not seem like a lot, it’s worth remembering that wages should grow, not shrink, during the longest economic expansion in US history.
It’s still relatively easy for many to find a job these days, and those who lose their jobs, or decide to leave, don’t have as a hard time finding another position.
But millions of Americans are working part-time jobs when they would rather get full-time gigs, or at least work more hours. The number of people in that group —4.4 million workers— didn’t budge in September.
The health care industry added the highest number of jobs in September: 39,000. Nurses, physical therapists, and home health aides are in high demand right now. Companies that provide services to businesses — such as janitors and security guards — also created a lot of jobs.
The wall is not being built. Growth wasn’t 4%, moar like 2%.
When will the hypocritical republicans finally get a backbone & say they’ve had enough chaos & derision in America? When will they see what a lying corrupt racist immoral person the president is? When will they realize what an embarrassment the man is for our country all over the world? When will they realize that this man does not have any Christian values? When will they care? Trumpers including our legislative delegation have sold their soul for an extra dollar or two in their paycheck. Has the last horrible three years been worth it? Time to put country & your own soul before party.
Historically, Trump’s collapsing popularity in South Dakota would spell well for South Dakota Democrats, but I am afraid that the Democratic Party in this state is no longer seen as an alternative at times like this; and I believe the major reason is because the Democratic Party in this state has lost its identity by trying to be a “kinder and gentler” version of the South Dakota GOP instead.
As Trump’s popularity collapses, I am afraid that swing Republican and Independent voters will support and attempt to hold on to Republican candidates down ballot both out of a fear of a blue wave and for others due to an inability to make a distinction between the two political parties in this state.
So, Democrats in South Dakota will not be credible statewide until they take pride in being Democrats and demonstrate that they are a true alternative to the Republicans. But this new awakening will also need to be complemented with an effective voter registration and canvassing/GOTV programs as well.
Democrats will not win statewide in this state by disowning their party or expressing an utopian view that political parties do not matter, because they do. Well, they do when they have a spine, that is.
At some point the South Dakota Democratic Party needs to stop being merely a political mechanism for a few to express and exercise their egotistic dreams at the expense of an ideology and a true party building reality.
If you look at the modern history of the South Dakota Democratic Party, it involved overtime – and with continual success – from one of committed ideology to one of pure pragmatism, but the major mistake many leaders in the party today are making, is that in an attempt to strength the party they are attempting to jump-start pragmatism over ideology, which is a grave political mistake, because they then placed the cart in front of the horse and through such naive strategy are enablers to eventual oligarchical politics.
This from Show Me Progress:
“I cannot tell a lie.”
– George Washington
“I cannot tell the truth.”
– Donald Trump
“I cannot tell the difference.”
– Republicans
Good one Mike!
That’s good news for SD! Congratulations! SD is not the only place where that is happening. Sem-fanciful lists aside, the average American, especially in rural areas, isn’t feeling better economically or otherwise, especially since Economic Eunuch started his inept trade war.
Man, that list is really drawing at straws. Is opening the NAWR to oil exploration really a good thing. Exporting the be-jesus out of oil, gas, and coal?
It is astonishing to me that after everything that is coming out on Trump, how can anyone stand behind this administration’s breach of office?