It’s unthinkable for Democratic strategists: Losing a second election to President Donald Trump.
A new poll shows Trump isn’t just on his way to a victory, though. He’s on his way to a landslide.
Almost two-thirds of Americans say they’re willing to give Trump a second term in the White House.
A whopping 62 percent of registered voters said they would consider voting for Trump this November. That’s up almost 10 percent compared to the same time last year, according to a Hill/HarrisX poll.
Meanwhile, the number of voters who said they would never vote for Trump fell to 38 percent.
Pollsters say that Trump, who saw his poll numbers boosted by the actions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. during impeachment, has the potential to tap into a whole new source of support.
“The President can now make his case to a segment of voters who only a year ago said they would never vote for him,” said B.J. Martino, a Republican pollster and partner at The Tarrance Group.
It is no surprise that the number one issue for people willing to give Trump a second look is the red-hot economy. One out of five voters said their openness to President Trump is based on their economic status. Unemployment has hit 50-year lows at the same time the stock market has set a string of record highs.
Martino said the economy is the only reason voters cited “that has shown significant growth from a year ago.”
But the poll shows that Democrats may be blowing their own chances at winning in 2020 by lurching too far to the left.
A close second issue with voters is their agreement with the statement, “Those in the current Democratic field are pushing ideas that are too liberal.”
U.S. voters reject “very liberal Democratic policies like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All,” said Dritan Nesho, CEO of HarrisX. The survey comes as Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders admitted the middle class “will pay more in taxes” to cover the costs of his $36 trillion socialized medicine plan.
“ A strong economy combined with dubious field of Democrat is providing a clear opportunity for the Trump campaign,” Martino said.
The poll is one of several showing the president making inroads with vital Democratic constituencies: black and Hispanic voters.
More than half of all Hispanics say they could vote to re-elect Trump.
“Blacks and Hispanics, to different degrees, are upending the notion that ‘nonwhite’ voters are ineluctably wedded to the Democratic Party and walled off from the rest of political America,” wrote political guru Michael Barone. The odds of a Trump re-election are so clear that Canadian writer Conrad Black wrote this week that “Trump is destined for a historic 2020 win.”
The Democrats are about “to utter a primal scream of nonsense, get everything off their chest and out of their system, (and) be dragged to the padded cell by the voters.”
But additional polls show this is no time for Republicans to take victory in the fall for granted. Two Democratic tickets have the potential to beat Donald Trump in 2020, according to a poll conducted by Zogby Analytics.
A Sanders-Warren ticket barely edges out Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the popular vote — and that’s even considering the survey’s margin of error.
“Sanders and Warren could win the popular vote, but Trump and Pence still have the advantage of the coalition of working-class and blue-collar voters they made in-roads within swing states: Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,” said Jonathan Zogby.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg also come out ahead in the popular vote, within the margin of error, but they have softer support and more “undecideds.”
Most importantly, the president isn’t elected by winning the popular vote. Trump still has a lead in the Electoral College.
Democratic insiders worry that nominating a radical socialist like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.T. could throw away their winning chances — and Republicans hope so.
The Democrats “are in the process of committing political suicide. They’re loading the cartridges. They’re aiming the gun at themselves,” conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said. “The thing is, they don’t know this. They haven’t yet discovered it.”
They may not discover it until Trump wins a share of these historic Democratic constituencies.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”