Steve Bannon predicts Trump will win 400 electoral votes in 2020 at Values Voters Summit

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon predicted Saturday that his former boss will not only finish out his first term, but win a second term with 400 electoral votes in 2020.

"President Trump's not only going to finish this term, he's going to win with 400 electoral votes in 2020," Bannon told his conservative audience in a speech at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C.

Bannon was directly refuting a recent Vanity Fair article in which two sources said Bannon believes Mr. Trump only has a 30 percent chance of finishing his first term. Bannon, who returned to Breitbart News as its executive chairman after leaving the White House this summer, has pledged to fight for Mr. Trump and his agenda from outside the White House. Part of that pledge includes fighting the establishment GOP Bannon believes is responsible for stifling that agenda.

"And right now it's a season of war against a GOP establishment," Bannon said. For Bannon, much of that war focuses on neutralizing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. On Capitol Hill, "it's like before the Ides of March," Bannon said, referring to the date of Julius Caesar's assassination.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-predicts-trump-will-win-400-electoral-votes-in-2020-at-values-voters-summit/

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He's either on some really good drugs or he knows that the next election is to be hacked even more thoroughly than '16. The problem with Russia doing too good of a job hacking voting machines is that it will become obvious to everyone, we'll no longer be looking back lamenting that we should have tried a bit harder in 2 or 3 swing states.

[steve2470]

1. delusional or lying nt

[mahannah]

2. Both.

[elehhhhna]

34. Ass kissing is an investment in a future pardon

[brush]

41. Wonder if he predicted he'd get fired?

[PJMcK]

3. Bannon is full of shit

He doesn't have the power of which too many of us seem fearful. Granted, the money that the Mercers have is considerable. But Bannon went from being a doorway from the Oval Office to running a crummy, questionable website that caters to losers. Is that audience really the army he's counting on?

Further, Bannon has said that Trump has a 30% chance of finishing his first term. While I agree with that assessment, to a great extent a failed Trump presidency will be largely due to Bannon's influence and actions.

As I said, Bannon's full of it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Yep, no question... good luck with that Steve-o, you dumb fuck!

[sandensea]

4. He means that he intends to STEAL his way to 400.

And with our easily hacked voting/vote count machines, it should be a cinch.

[Auggie]

5. +1

[FakeNoose]

46. Well no, he must have been talking to Putin lately

I'm sure Putin already knows what our 2020 election counts are going to be.
He doesn't even care who we nominate as the Democratic candidate.

[sandensea]

47. Sure. Uncle Vlad would be the linchpin in any such heist.

"I owe you everything, Uncle Vlad."

"Da - and don't you forget it!"

[C_U_L8R]

6. bet he predicted he'd have a job too

[7962]

8. HA!

[rainin]

7. This sends chills down my spine.

We ignore him at our peril. He may know he can steal this election. One way or another. We thought we had the last one because we were playing by the rules. He has no rules.

[nwduke]

9. Huh?

What’s this moron smoking?

[karynnj]

10. Completely unlikely

That means he has to win one of the following:

California
New York
Washington
Maryland
Massachusetts
Illinois
Vermont

I think his chance in any one of these states is very near zero. (There are other states that could be added - I took the biggest completely unlikely states and needed one more - so I added Vermont.)

Of course saying he gets 400 is ridiculous is a low bar -- I think that if things continue as they are --he likely loses the Republican primary.

[groundloop]

12. And of course as we all too well remember, there was no path for 45* to win in '16....

Our problem is that we played by the rules and didn't even for a moment consider the massive effort which would be put forth by a foreign power to upend our democracy. I'm sure that right wing election hackers have been emboldened by the theft of 2016 and I don't put anything past them for the foreseeable future. Lord knows gopers in Congress have no incentive to put an end to election hacking, it's the only way they're going to remain in power.

[karynnj]

24. I never said we could just be confident

I said there was no way he was likely to win those states, but losing all of them, he could still win. I never believed that Trump had no chance to win.

I took seriously Nate Silver's comment that the swing states very likely would swing in the same direction. When Silver was saying he had a 30% chance of winning -- that meant he had a real shot at winning, even if HRC was more likely. Many of them were close and getting closer at the end. Two things bothered me: 1) the high number of people undecided in the October and later polls. My concern was a gut feeling that these were more likely Republicans repulsed by Trump because there was good reason to be repulsed. In the exit polls, the people disliking both and who were late deciders went to Trump. In most of the swing states, HRC GOT the percent she was polling at the end when she was a couple of points ahead -- Trump exceeded his.

[MFM008]

11. bannons liver

lives................

[louis-t]

13. Wait, didn't he just predict drumpf wouldn't make it

through his first term? I'm confused.

[Plucketeer]

14. 400 VOTES, I could believe

But 400 ELECTORAL votes. Forgive me, but that requires just TOO MANY LOLs to bother typing them all out.

[Maxheader]

15. Newt Ginrich

thinks trump is brilliant. He and bannon know
what cheetos likes to hear..

[treestar]

16. It's more than 3 years away

and he only won by EC, which was a fluke.

I'm pretty sure the Democratic candidate next time won't trust the polls or the swing states ever again.

[thegoose]

17. Crawl back in your gin bottle, Stevie

I think you've got the DTs again.

[onenote]

18. that would be quite a feat

Given that of the states Hillary won, her margin of victory was less than five points in states with a total of 31 electoral votes, while of the states Trump won, his margin of victory was less than five points in stats with a total of 102 electoral votes.

And that was when his favorability ratings were 10 points higher than they are now (and appear likely to be into the foreseeable future).

[Iliyah]

19. Steal, rig and then lie about it

GOPs suck

[Oneironaut]

20. Not 400, but Trump has a good chance of winning in 2020 if everything stays the same as now.

We’re going to need to throw everything we’ve got at them. If 2016 taught us anything, it’s A - Don’t believe the polls that say everybody hates Trump, and B - Dont underestimate them.

A massive effort and solid candidate are going to be needed.

[standingtall]

25. If he stands a good chance of winning if everything stays the same as now

without cheating then it is hopeless.

[Oneironaut]

28. Not exactly. He can still be beaten. We need a new 2008 Obama-like

candidate who can bring people to the polls like never before. Resigning to defeat ensures a Trump win. We need voters to get motivated and vote. Also, we need to get better at debunking fake news. Fake news flowed relatively unanswered in 2016.

[standingtall]

30. So we are suppose to pin our hopes on another once in a

generation candidate showing up just four years after the last once in a generation candidate left office. Improbable. There is no way Trump should be able to win without cheating after all of this. If he can we might as well flush elections down the toilet. I don't believe Trump can win without cheating anyway. Saying Trump can or will win despite being the most unpopular President in history at this point in his presidency serves no purpose,but to energize his deplorable base.

[Oneironaut]

58. He can and will win if we dont treat this election as a severely uphill battle.

I thought Trump was done for in 2016. I had the same idea - Trump is unlikeable, and nobody will vote for him. The problem is, people will if we don’t have a candidate that grabs their attention. I hate to say it, but he’s in a good position for re-election right now.

I don’t get his appeal either. He has a silent following that refuses to acknowledge their support for him, but will vote for him.

[standingtall]

61. You cannot compare 2016 to 2020

Trump wasn't simply allowed to have the electoral college stolen for him because his deplorable based liked him it was the let's give him a chance crowd that put him over the top. Now he has had his chance and those swing voters who decided to roll the dice on him don't like what they see. If we treat the 2020 election like an uphill battle all we are going to do is suppress our own turnout while energizing his base.

[OKNancy]

39. Joe Kennedy III

[ariesgem]

52. My thoughts exactly...

nt...

[rtracey]

54. and

and paper ballots with a republican, a democrat and an independent judge counting the ballots.

[Vinca]

21. Meanwhile, the rest of us wouldn't be disappointed if the fast food did its trick.

[LenaBaby61]

22. IF ....

The 2020 GE is rigged or gerrymandered or voter-suppressed enough, or if ruSSia interferes in just the right way the next time around, who knows WHAT they can accomplish, especially with a thuglican Senate/House

[Old Vet]

44. You are correct, Its actually quite scary.......

[NCjack]

23. He will not be available to run in 2020. So, Drunk Stevie is wrong. nt

[stopbush]

26. From prison?

[PubliusEnigma]

27. The only prediction Bannon could make that I would believe is that he will eat a Frito Pie soon

[Hoyt]

29. Maybe not 400, but if economy is decent, he's hurt enough poor people,

and maybe killed some Koreans, he might well win.

[mr_liberal]

31. Depends on the Democratic candidate.

If Democrats nominate someone too far left Trump could win again, and by a large margin.

[bullwinkle428]

60. Hillary was "too far left"?

[Cryptoad]

33. If the GOP doesn't get its act together and ,,,,

purge its party of Bannon and his forces before the 2018 election,, the GOP is lost. IPlus if the Democrats dont turn the tide in 2018, I say there is good chance will never have another Presidential Election.

[rockfordfile]

35. From a two-bit drunk.

[jmowreader]

36. Little Stevie is just so CYOOT!

The only people who really like Trump anymore are white supremacists and single-issue Second Amendment absolutists. He's about ready to get the dogshit slapped out of him by Congress for repealing Obamacare the way a dictator would. Traditional conservatives are pissed because he's too evil, and fundamentalist christians are pissed because he's not evil enough.

Somewhere in this thread is a comment that Trump could be primaried out in 2020. I don't know if that's possible, but it's VERY possible the RNC could throw the presidential election in an attempt to save their 22 Senate seats.

[kimbutgar]

37. With Russias help of course

But I don’t see him winning the west coast states.

[Runningdawg]

38. WTF In a Vanity Fair iterview

Bannon was quoted as saying he only gave Trump a 30% chance of finishing his first term.

[Initech]

40. They can't win if they can't steal!

[Norbert]

42. And tRump will fly to the sun and back

along with Frederick Douglass and the president of the Virgin Islands.

[oberliner]

43. Not likely

But you never know.

[McCamy Taylor]

45. In other words, it is fund raising time. Yawn.

[Yavin4]

48. Those Russian hackers are something

Why not put their skills to better use. Like making the next great smart phone instead.

[LBM20]

49. Why does anyone give two shits what Bannon says? Why even post this shit?

[Ilsa]

50. I doubt he would be their nominee even if he stays out of prison. NT

[TexasBushwhacker]

51. He's just saying shit to keep his Breitbart readers happy n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

53. WHICH IS IT? 3 days ago Bannon said that Trump was unlikely to finish his first term.

http://www.businessinsider.com/will-trump-finish-his-term-25th-amendment-steve-bannon-2017-10

[J_William_Ryan]

55. 400 EC votes is ridiculous.

But Trump being reelected is very likely.

Since 1912, only 4 presidents have failed to win reelection.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

57. Only one president was re-elected with a smaller share of the vote than he won the first time -0bama

Chump will never be more popular than he was on the day he was (s)elected.

The economy is relatively strong and his approval ratings which are in the mid to high thirties are the lowest approval ratings in history at this point in a president's tenure. It's more likely they stay the same or go down than improve.

[JHB]

56. Comments designed to put a smile on a particular orange face...

...said in public but not for public consumption.

[Madam45for2923]

59. Trying to GASLIGHT.