{"id":11612,"date":"2019-01-17T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:01:35","slug":"trumps-re-election-chances-may-be-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-re-election-chances-may-be-better-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Re-Election Chances May Be Better Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are Donald Trump\u2019s chances for re-election in 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If history is any guide, pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early 1994, Bill Clinton\u2019s approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm elections of the Clinton presidency were an utter disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new generation of younger, more conservative Republicans led by firebrand Newt Gingrich and his \u201cContract with America\u201d gave Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Republicans also picked up eight Senate seats in 1994 to take majority control of both houses of Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/16\/trumps-re-election-chances-may-be-better-than-you-think\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness What are Donald Trump\u2019s chances for re-election in 2020? If history is any guide, pretty good. In early 1994, Bill Clinton\u2019s approval rating after two years in office hovered around a dismal 40 percent. The first midterm elections of the Clinton presidency were an utter disaster. A new generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1012,1212],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-31i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10692,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-never-trump-construct\/","url_meta":{"origin":11612,"position":0},"title":"The \u2018Never Trump\u2019 Construct","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 The president\u2019s fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP\u2019s internal strife. 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