DONALD TRUMP DELIVERED ON HIS PROMISE, BUT WILL THE OLD GUARD SHORT CIRCUIT THE DREAM?

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
DONALD TRUMP DELIVERED ON HIS PROMISE, BUT WILL THE OLD GUARD SHORT CIRCUIT THE DREAM?

PAUL RYAN INTENDS TO SHELVE MUCH OF TRUMP’S AMERICA-FIRST AGENDA!

Word is now circulating that Paul Ryan and other leading GOP House members are preparing to only give incoming President

Trump a portion of Mr. Trump’s broad agenda, and then ignore the rest, namely Trump’s desire for a much tougher immigration policy.

If GOP House leaders have their way, they are preparing to fight Trump in a far more aggressive and unified fashion than was ever put forth against the Obama agenda, as made clear in this Gateway Pundit report:

“A top ally of House Speaker Paul Ryan has outlined the GOP leadership’s strategy to isolate and block President Donald Trump’s populist campaign promises, likely including his popular immigration reforms.

“We all agree that some of President Trump’s proposed policies are not going to line up very well with our conservative policies,” Texas Rep. Bill Flores told an inside-the-beltway audience on Dec. 1.

…Trump’s immigration reforms will likely be shelved by House Republicans.”

Donald Trump put in play states that had not voted Republican in a national election in more than a generation. Mr. Trump increased minority support, defeated a Democrat opponent who
outspent him by a three-to-one margin, and the GOP House leadership deems itself the sole arbiter of what should and should not be “acceptable” regarding the soon-to-be President’s agenda.

APPALLING!

Hopefully Donald Trump’s millions of supporters will convince these arrogant and spineless Republicans to reconsider, lest they too find themselves sharing the fate of other politicians who attempted to defeat Mr. Trump.

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Donald Trump delivered on his promise to flip the Democrats’ electoral hold on the industrial Midwest.

Across swing states — and others previously thought to be safe for Democrats — Trump colored dozens of counties red that hadn’t gone Republican in decades.

Of the nearly 700 counties that twice sent Obama to the White House, a stunning one-third flipped to support Trump.

Trump also won 194 of the 207 counties that voted for Obama either in 2008 or 2012.

By contrast, of those 2,200 counties that never supported Obama, Clinton was only able to win six. That’s just 0.3 percent crossover to the Democratic side.

Despite having a smaller field of possible counties to win over, Trump did just that, delivering electoral votes in the Upper Midwest states, as well as in Florida and North Carolina.
Trump secured several Obama counties in upstate New York, though it wasn’t enough to win the state. He also won over counties in Maine’s rural congressional 2nd District, securing a GOP electoral vote in New England for the first time since 2000.

The Obama-Trump voter.

Who are these voters who picked the nation’s current president twice and now its president-elect, who rocketed to political prominence questioning Obama’s legitimacy?

On average, the counties that voted for Obama twice and then flipped to support Trump were 81 percent white. Obama strongholds that supported Clinton were just 55 percent white.

Of the counties that split their vote in 2008 and 2012, Trumps were 86 percent white and Clinton’s were 71 percent white.

There was also an education gap, with Trump pulling more support from counties with more voters with a only a high school education. In Trump’s counties, 36 percent of voters had no college education, on average. In the consistently Democratic counties, only 28 percent of voters were not college educated.

When President Obama took office in 2009, Democrats claimed 257 House seats, 60 Senate seats (after Arlen Specter switched sides), 28 governorships, and total control of 27 state legislatures. Many pundits figured that the Republican party was turning into nothing more than a regional coalition, with little strength outside the South.

What about the Democrats' midterm debacle of 2010? The party lost a net 63 seats in the House,

as the GOP claimed its biggest majority in the lower chamber since the Great Depression. The Democrats also lost 6 seats in the Senate, including in blue redoubts such as Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. On net, the party lost 6 governorships and its total control of state legislatures slipped to 16.

The next cycle was a rebound of sorts for Democrats, but the details were less impressive than the headlines. Obama won reelection comfortably over Mitt Romney, but he did so with 3.6 million fewer votes than he received in 2008. Such a victory is without precedent. Every incumbent president who has won election to a second term did so by increasing his total votes—except Obama, in 2012. Down-ballot, the Democrats' performance was similarly mediocre. The party netted eight House seats, two Senate seats, and total control of three more state legislatures. Meanwhile, they lost the governorship of North Carolina.

The 2014 cycle was another disaster for the Democrats. When the dust settled, the Republican party—which had been all but left for dead just five years’ prior—was clearly the dominant coalition in the states. The GOP held 247 House seats, 54 Senate seats, 31 governorships, and total control of 30 state legislatures. The only major elected office still controlled by the Democrats was the White House, which, of course, the party just lost. The recent election amounted to no substantial change in the balance of power throughout the rest of the country: The Democrats picked up two Senate seats but lost a net three governorships; they won six U.S. House seats, but on balance the GOP consolidated its hold on state legislatures.

What makes Obama unique is the magnitude of his party's defeat. When he entered office, he and his party had broad control of the government. When he leaves office in two months, the opposition will have broad control of the government. That is quite extraordinary. In fact, during the postwar era, no two-term

president has lost more U.S. House seats and state legislative seats than Obama.

What accounts for this? After all, Obama himself remains popular. The latest Gallup poll has his approval rating at a robust 56 percent, on par with Reagan when he left office in 1989. But that number is deceptive. Obama's approval rating only rose into positive territory during this election cycle, when he no longer dominated the headlines. Before the media focused on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, news centered on the Iran deal, Syria, Libya, immigration, gun control, Obamacare, the stimulus, and so on. The country typically disapproved of his handling of these matters, even as it still held a favorable view of him as a person.

Obama seems to have given big government a bad name. When he was elected in 2008, the exit poll found that 51 percent of Americans thought the government should do more, compared with 43 percent who thought it should do less. But in 2016, after eight years of Obama, the exit poll found that 45 percent thought the government should do more, compared with 50 percent who thought it should do less.

While people still like Obama, they haven't much cared for his policies—and time and again they have taken their frustrations
out on his fellow partisans. Those hardy Democrats who have managed to survive the party's annihilation during the Obama years may think twice before asking him to jump into the political fray after he retires. By Jay Cost, a Friend of America!

ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT CHINA DOESN’T HAVE AMERICA’S BEST INTEREST IN MIND, THEN YOU KNOW HOW TRUMP IS GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but blamed the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own for the "petty" move.

The 10-minute telephone call with Taiwan's leadership was the first by a U.S. president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in 1979, acknowledging Taiwan as part of "one China".

China's Foreign Ministry said it had lodged "stern representations" with what it called the "relevant U.S. side", urging the careful handling of the Taiwan issue to avoid any unnecessary

disturbances in ties.

"The one China principle is the political basis of the China-U.S. relationship," it said.

The wording implied the protest had gone to the Trump camp, but the ministry provided no explanation.

Speaking earlier, hours after Friday's telephone call, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pointedly blamed Taiwan for the exchange, rather than Trump, a billionaire businessman with little foreign policy experience.

"This is just the Taiwan side engaging in a petty action, and cannot change the 'one China' structure already formed by the international community," Wang said at an academic forum in Beijing, China's Foreign Ministry quoted him as saying.

"I believe that it won't change the longstanding 'one China' policy of the United States government."

In comments at the same forum, Wang noted how quickly President Xi Jinping and Trump had spoken by telephone after Trump's victory, and that Trump had praised China as a great country.

Wang said that exchange had sent "a very positive signal about the future development of Sino-U.S. relations", per the ministry's website. Taiwan was not mentioned in that call, per an official Chinese transcript.

PAUL RYAN ON TRUMP'S MUSLIM BAN: THIS ISN'T WHAT OUR PARTY STANDS FOR!
PAUL RYAN: FLIP FLOPPING OR LYING TO STAY RELEVANT IN THE 'NEW' AMERICA FIRST PARTY?
A year ago the bipartisan globalists from the GOP were like dogs begging for a treat from the
likes of George Soros. They all got those treats by fast tracking the TPP trade agreement and being given a that-a-boy to the tune of millions of dollars! Ryan and McConnell have been hiding behind the conservative moniker, but in real life they have been supporting Obama's agenda, and following it for a very long time. When Trump came along to run in the primaries the GOP bosses made him sign a commitment to 'not' run under the Independent flag, but continue his loyalty the Republican Party! The rest is history, and I'm not going to waste anymore of your time explaining, but do you really think that the Republican leadership is going to follow the mandate of the American People? I say 'NO!'  ....to be continued!

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