It's going to be a strange election
I mean we have a president who will openly use an ill relative to score political points
I'm not sure what the tactic is going to be against this type of stuff... But I hope It's a better plan that calling people deplorables
I am not sure Trump will even go to the TV debates I'm sure he will dismiss the networks as fake news outlets ... Possibly a live debate on breitbart with questions he vetted befirehand?
He's already started with #kag2020 (keep America great) so presumably he will start selling millions of hats along with the money from his rallies and no doubt some big corporate sponsorship I would expect a huge spend on negative adds... All that with him tweeting away and attacking "crazy" Bernie or "creapy" Joe or "Pocahontas" (not sure he has a name for Kamala yet though no doubt he would find one) and of course starting trade or actual wars to distract when needed
And even if somehow he does loose and it's close I don't rule out him talking about illegals voting and it being a Clinton / Obama plot to steal the election and him telling his voters to surround counting centres with ar15's until he has arranged for all votes to be counted by hand
I'm just not sure I see any democrat ready or capable of taking him on... As a minimum I hope they have new strategists and are prepared for it to be a dirty fight
That's already his #1 strategy and has been for 5 years. Its a populist era and people are sick of the establishment. The number 1 populist driver and motivator for the right is anti-immigration. It the easiest way to tap into the age old political ploy of demonizing the other. Immigration is the one issue the entire Republican party has an advantage over the Democrats on as that issue turns out the votes for their base and doesn't help Dem turnout. The only way for the Democrats to adequately counter an anti-immigration populist message is with the other left populist issues that have massive popularity among the progressive base that doesn't already vote every election and the undecideds that have no consistent party allegiance. Tap into left wing populist issues that will turn out the vote as Obama did in 2008 - the only year the Democrats actually pushed a progressive message and soundly won. That means the populist issues like single payer health that the corporate Dems are vehemently opposed to supporting hence the rift in the Democrat party.
Republicans understand how to use polls to learn the information to turn out their base.
Democats keep making the mistake of thinking arbitrary data processing formulas of "likely voters" are so spot on, all they have to do is poll chase instead of understanding how to craft a moral values frame that actually turns out the voters.
IF Democrats lose 2020 they have no one to blame but themselves and their own broken way of strategizing that has been apparent to people like linguist Lakoff and working class filmmaker Michael Moore for 20 years.
So far I see nothing in the DNC strategy that makes me think they have learned the lessons of 2004, 2008 and 2016. I'm going to place a bet on Trump winning if its Biden