by Frank Holmes reporter
When Donald Trump won the presidency, he sent a shock through the Swamp that it still hasn’t gotten over— and while it’s early, it looks like he’s about to do it again.
And it’s very bad news for Democratic front-runners like Beto O’Rourke.
Trump pulled together forgotten voters in the heartland: coal miners, steel workers, union members in states like Michigan and Wisconsin.
Democrats tried to blame it all on Russian collusion, but the truth is Hillary Clinton lost a huge group of voters she desperately needed: blue collar Democrats.
And it looks like Trump is getting ready to roll the Democratic nominee again in 2020.
Insiders say that more than one in every three people at President Trump’s first 2020 “Make America Great Again” campaign event were members of the Democratic Party.
“I believe 34 percent of the people who came to the Michigan rally were Democrats,” said Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager.
Trump headed to Grand Rapids to take a victory lap after the Mueller report cleared him of all “collusion” with Russia—and thousands of voters from both parties lined up at the Van Andel Arena to see him.
Unlike rallies three years ago, these Democrats aren’t paid Soros activists sent to rough up Trump supporters. They’re cheering for Trump—and scaring O’Rourke and his fellow Democrats about their chances of winning back the blue state next November.
Three things have Democrats shaking in their boots.
First of all, “Almost half had only voted once in the last four elections,” Parscale told Fox News. That means they only turn out for candidates who inspire them—and they’re turning out for Trump.
Second, it shows that Trump is way more popular among Democrats than anybody thought. Only four percent of Democrats admitted they approve of Trump in a new Gallup poll. A Morning Consult poll puts Trump’s approval rating at 40 percent in Michigan as a whole.
But polls failed to capture Trump’s popularity before 2016—and it looks like they’re falling behind again.
Third, it shows that Democrats who switched to Donald Trump before the last presidential election are still on board, at least so far.
In 2016, Donald Trump won about a third of the 650-plus counties that voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
About one out of every 10 Obama voters backed Trump. But that rose to one of every four white voters who hadn’t attended college, George Washington University political science professor John Sides told the New York Times.
Every vote counted, because just 80,000 votes in three states tipped the election for Trump.
Michigan, which helped power Trump into the White House in 2016, is one of them. It’s where the “Reagan Democrat” was born.
The world’s leading producer of automobiles used to be part of the “Blue Wall”—but the Democrats ignored their voters and concentrated on giving amnesty to illegal immigrants.
“Forty years ago, workers” in counties that flipped from Obama to Trump “earned 85 cents for every dollar earned by workers in the Democratic strongholds,” according to the New York Times. “By 2016, the ratio had fallen to 77 cents.”
Trump’s message of bringing jobs back to the heartland made the “Blue Wall” one that Trump campaigned to knock down—and he’s got the wrecker going again.
In fact, Trump thinks he can appeal to Democrats in states that voted against him last time—and win 2020 by an even bigger margin.
The Trump campaign quietly believes the president can flip Virginia red this time.
The once reliably Republican state is home to an army of federal workers—the deepest part of the Deep State—and backed Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in 2016.
All three of the top statewide offices are held by Democrats—and all three are swimming in massive scandals, from wearing blackface to allegations of rape.
Trump has sent Vice President Mike Pence to stump in the state already.
“Tell them we think Virginia is in play and that I’m going to be there,” he told Pence, according to Politico.
If Donald Trump keeps his 2016 base, and adds Virginia, it’s four more years.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”