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Sherrod Brown, victor in Ohio last November, looks increasingly like a good bet for WH2020

Sherrod Brown, victor in Ohio last November, looks increasingly like a good bet for WH2020

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https://youtu.be/dNiVkG6Kh88?t=156 I’ve had quite a few long shot bets on the next White House Race but the one I am becoming increasingly confident about is Sherrod Brown Who last November held his Ohio senate seat by a margin of 6%. What makes this striking is that at WH2016 Trump took the state with a margin of 8 points. If anyone can win the rust belt back for the Democrats then it’s Brown. So far he’s not formally put his hat…

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Trump facing right-wing backlash for caving in on the shut down

Trump facing right-wing backlash for caving in on the shut down

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Suddenly Trump finds himself under attack from those his loudest backers. Coulter blasts Trump over shutdown deal: 'Biggest wimp ever to serve as president' | TheHill https://t.co/TPOXnHh9tA — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 26, 2019 Yesterday has raised doubts over his WH2020 bid My biggest long-term bet for a long time has been that Trump will will not be his party’s nominee at WH2020. This has been my Mueller collusion probe bet on the basis that at some stage there’d be…

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The Dems, surely, are. not going to choose someone in their late 70s to oust an incumbent in his mid-70s

The Dems, surely, are. not going to choose someone in their late 70s to oust an incumbent in his mid-70s

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2020 GE:Biden 53% (+12)Trump 41%.Sanders 51% (+10)Trump 41%.Harris 48% (+7)Trump 41%.O'Rourke 47% (+6)Trump 41%.Warren 48% (+6)Trump 42%.Booker 47% (+5)Trump 42%.Gillibrand 47% (+5)Trump 42%@ppppolls 1/19-21https://t.co/MheHlB8QH6 — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) January 22, 2019 But Biden and Sanders head the polling We are going to see a lot of polling like this over the next 18 months as the Democratic party goes through the prolonged process of choosing who should be the one to block Trump’s second term. Joe Biden, of course, was…

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Kamala Harris, betting favourite for the Democratic nomination, chooses today, Martin Luther King Day, to launch her campaign

Kamala Harris, betting favourite for the Democratic nomination, chooses today, Martin Luther King Day, to launch her campaign

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JUST IN: @KamalaHarris on announcing she will be running for president in 2020: "I feel a responsibility to stand up and fight for who we are." https://t.co/qUX1sERxxZ pic.twitter.com/NcSHFTRIny — Good Morning America (@GMA) January 21, 2019 Will she be able to stop Trump? The big news in the 2020 White House race is that as expected, Kamala Harris has formally announced that she is running for the Democratic nomination, and of course, the presidency. In recent months her star has…

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Trump is clearing the road to his own impeachment

Trump is clearing the road to his own impeachment

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‘La Famiglia’by Marf His shutdown has backfired and he’s vulnerable For all the attention on Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s campaign and associated activities, the thing that will ultimately do for Trump – or save him – is politics. The latest reports, that Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, are certainly not good news for the embattled president but nor are they catastrophic. For one thing, as he is fond of noting, Michael Cohen is not necessarily a…

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More Democrats put their hats into the ring in the fight for the nomination to take on Trump

More Democrats put their hats into the ring in the fight for the nomination to take on Trump

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While all in the UK have been focused on Brexit and it’s aftermath things are starting to hot up in the race to be elected president of the United States in November 2020. This will be the 5th White House campaign that will be covered by Politicalbetting since the site’s foundation in 2004. These are massive betting events and throughout the next 22 months there’ll be a wide range of markets to bet on. There’s a lot of early activity…

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The weekend polling suggests that Trump is losing voter support in the battle of “The Wall”

The weekend polling suggests that Trump is losing voter support in the battle of “The Wall”

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Now he’s in negative territory amongst non-college whites With the US government shutdown continuing and 800k federal workers not getting their salary cheques on Friday there’s no sign of an end to what is totally dominating US politics. Basically Trump has shut down large parts of the federal government to put pressure on the Democrats to provide funding for a wall along the whole of the Mexican-US border. This was a key Trump WH2016 campaign pledge when he said the…

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Kamala Harris – my WH2020 66/1 pick from two years ago – set to enter the race a week on Monday

Kamala Harris – my WH2020 66/1 pick from two years ago – set to enter the race a week on Monday

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Now joint favourite for the Democratic nomination This is from my post under the heading “My 66/1 long-shot bet for the 2020 White House race: Democratic Senator Kamala Harris from California” from January 18th 2017 – two days before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President. “..With Trump’s inauguration taking place on Friday there’s been a flurry of betting activity on the newly elected Senator from California, Kamala Harris, for the next White House Race in 2020. This followed a lot…

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