{"id":88015,"date":"2017-08-25T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/trumps-2020-campaign-complicates-the-present.html"},"modified":"2017-08-25T00:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:33:05","slug":"trumps-2020-campaign-complicates-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trumps-2020-campaign-complicates-the-present.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s 2020 campaign complicates the present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">**Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">here<\/a>.**<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><b><i>On the roster:\u00a0Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign complicates the present &#8211; I\u2019ll Tell You What:\u00a0Beep, beep, beep\u2026\u00a0&#8211; Trump blames Ryan, McConnell for debt limit fight &#8211; Alabama Senate primary race gets uglier &#8211; Combo meal \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>TRUMP\u2019S 2020 CAMPAIGN COMPLICATES THE PRESENT\u00a0<br \/><\/b>One of the perceived merits of\u00a0<b>President Trump<\/b>\u2019s decision to break with precedent and file for re-election on the same day he took office is that such an audacious move would put the quietus on some of the chatter that he was looking for an exit strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Trump\u2019s continual campaign hasn\u2019t ended speculation that the often unhappy and consistently unpopular president might drop out, it, along with his ongoing campaign rallies and fundraising efforts, has helped stave off most speculation about his future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will not, however, spare him a primary challenge. Nor will skipping over the traditional governing phase of a presidency help his chances to win another term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s be clear-eyed about this: The person most likely to take the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2021 is the current president. Of the 11 incumbent presidents who stood for another term since the end of World War II, only three have failed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This relates to the power of incumbency, yes, but of a specific kind. Incumbent presidents usually have strong control of their own parties. The three incumbents who failed,\u00a0<b>Gerald Ford<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Jimmy Carter<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>George H.W. Bush<\/b>\u00a0share something in common other than one-term status: Each of them faced a robust primary challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Trump faces what promises to be a painful couple of months with his own party, he understandably will be thinking about how things might look in January of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Polls this far out are rankly speculative, but we do have\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">one survey<\/a>\u00a0already showing Trump trailing in New Hampshire and\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">another suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that there is considerable appetite nationally for an alternative to the incumbent among Republican primary voters \u2013 and the second was even done by Trump\u2019s own pollster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The odds of a primary fight will increase as the current conflict between Trump and Congress continues. Look at it this way: As Trump targets individual Republicans for primary challenges, he is multiplying the force arrayed against him. Sen.\u00a0<b>Jeff Flake\u00a0<\/b>R-Ariz., one of Trump\u2019s boogeymen\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">was asked<\/a>\u00a0about the subject and said that the president was \u201cinviting\u201d a primary fight in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t know how much of Trump\u2019s approach stoking enmity against fellow Republicans is the president lashing over his hog-tied legislative agenda and how much of it is intended to keep his supporters in the same pugilistic mindset that carried him through 2016. But we can bet that it is at least some combination of the two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also have no way of knowing whether Democrats will be able to sort out their own problems in time to field a viable candidate for 2020. Heck, they still can\u2019t get over 2016, not that their former nominee\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">is helping<\/a>. But so much of Democrats\u2019 chances for 2020 depend not on their own choices but how ugly things get on the GOP side. There would have been no\u00a0<b>President Clinton\u00a0<\/b>without\u00a0<b>Pat Buchanan<\/b>\u00a0in 1992 and no President Carter without\u00a0<b>Ronald Reagan\u00a0<\/b>in 1976.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s continual campaigning against his own party may be depriving him of an even more important asset: A successful tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It looks increasingly like Congress will only pass crisis aversion legislation in September\u00a0<i>in spite of\u00a0<\/i>Trump\u2019s hectoring, not because of it. Trump\u2019s taunts and threats against his fellow Republicans do not produce results but, instead, increase the perceived value of refusing the president\u2019s demands. Weakening a president one wishes to see defeated isn\u2019t a practice limited to the opposition side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the worsening cycle of rhetorical aggression that has marked 2017 so far continues through next year, it is easy to imagine something like complete rupture between the Trump and non-Trump wings of the GOP before Election Day 2018. And as we have discussed many times before, there is no particular incentive for Democrats to work with a president whose failures they see as materially beneficial to them. \u00a0<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>We are given to seeing politics in two-year increments. But one of the changes of the Trump era may be that the consuming focus on the president himself makes midterms far less important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It may be Trump against his party and the world every day between now and the fall of 2020. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>THE RULEBOOK:\u00a0WHAT IT IS<\/b><i><br \/><\/i>\u201c\u2026we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people&#8230;\u201d \u2013\u00a0<b><i>James Madison<\/i><\/b><i>,\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Federalist No. 39<\/a><\/i><br \/><b><br \/> TIME OUT: SCARRED\u00a0<br \/><\/b>We know all about the licentious lifestyle of\u00a0<b>Benjamin Franklin<\/b>, especially during his years abroad making the case for American independence. But what of Franklin\u2019s 44-year marriage and his icy rejection of his wife in her waning years, even as her health declined? The answer may lie in the death of their 4-year-old son,\u00a0<b>Francis \u201cFranky\u201d Franklin<\/b>, from smallpox.<br \/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Smithsonian<\/a>: \u201cHow did a man who understood better than most the relative safety and efficacy of inoculation choose wrong? Possibly he just lost his nerve. Other men had. In 1721\u00a0<b>Cotton Mather<\/b>\u00a0\u2026 had stalled for two weeks before approving his teenage son\u2019s inoculation&#8230; It\u2019s more likely, though, that Benjamin and\u00a0<b>Deborah <\/b>disagreed over inoculation for their son. Franky was still Deborah\u2019s only child (the Franklins\u2019 daughter, Sarah, would not be born for seven more years) and the legitimizing force in her common-law marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Flag on the play? &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0Email us at<br \/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">HALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COM<\/a>\u00a0with<br \/> your tips, comments or questions.<\/p>\n<p><b>SCOREBOARD<br \/><\/b>Trump net job-approval rating:\u00a0<b>-18.2 points<br \/><\/b>Change from one week ago:\u00a0<b>down 2.2 points<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[<i>President Trump\u2019s score is determined by subtracting his average job disapproval rating in<\/i>\u00a0<i>the five most recent, methodologically sound public polls from his average approval rating, calculated in the same fashion.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p><b>I\u2019LL TELL YOU WHAT:<\/b>\u00a0<b>BEEP, BEEP, BEEP\u2026\u00a0<br \/><\/b>After the president\u2019s major policy address on Monday and campaign-style rally on Tuesday,\u00a0<b>Dana Perino\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>Chris Stirewalt<\/b>\u00a0discuss the mindset of the Trump Administration heading into a pivotal September.\u00a0Plus, Chris shares the \u201cbest culinary revelation\u201d of his vacation and Dana recounts her late night battle with a smoke alarm. <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>TRUMP BLAMES RYAN, MCCONNELL FOR DEBT LIMIT FIGHT<br \/><\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">WashEx:<\/a>\u00a0\u201c<b>President Trump<\/b>\u00a0on Thursday blamed Senate Majority Leader\u00a0<b>Mitch McConnell<\/b>\u00a0and House Speaker\u00a0<b>Paul Ryan<\/b>\u00a0for delaying the debt ceiling fight until the last minute, and said that delay will create a legislative \u2018mess\u2019 in September. \u2018I requested that Mitch M  Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill (which just passed) for easy approval. They didn&#8217;t do it so now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up (as usual) on Debt Ceiling approval. Could have been so easy-now a mess!\u2019 Trump tweeted.\u00a0Congress is under pressure to raise the debt limit before the end of September, which coincides with the deadline lawmakers have to pass a government spending bill or face a partial government shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>McConnell says it\u2019s all good &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">The Hill:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSenate Majority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) is pushing back against reports of a rift with President Trump, saying Wednesday he and the president have shared priorities.\u00a0\u2018We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we are committed to advancing our shared agenda together and anyone who suggests otherwise is clearly not part of the conversation,\u2019 McConnell\u00a0said in a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Ryan is busy pushing tax reform &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CNBC:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRyan cast the coming GOP proposal as essential to simplifying the tax code and allowing the U.S. economy and its companies to thrive. \u2018We&#8217;re basically taxing American businesses out of America,\u2019 Ryan told Intel employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Some still say high chance of a government shutdown &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Axios<\/a>: \u201cTop White House\u00a0and GOP leadership officials tell [Axios] the chances of a market-rattling government shutdown are rising by the day\u2026 the president&#8217;s talk is starting to spook markets. Goldman Sachs,\u00a0in guidance to investors last Friday, pegged the odds at 50\/50. \u2026 This may all come down\u00a0to Trump&#8217;s mood\u2026 That&#8217;s a dangerous dynamic. Based on funding mechanisms, the showdown could come either in September or December\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Menendez corruption trial could alter vote balance in Senate &#8211;<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">NYT<\/a>: \u201cWhen the 115th Congress returns to Washington on Sept. 5,<br \/> Senator\u00a0<b>Robert Menendez<\/b>\u00a0will likely be absent: His federal corruption trial is set to begin here the following day. But when the Senate moves to vote on major bills during the fall \u2026 Senator Menendez will be caught between his desire to remain in front of jurors and his congressional obligation to fight for his constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>ALABAMA SENATE PRIMARY RACE GETS UGLIER<\/b><br \/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">AL.com<\/a>: \u201cWithout offering evidence, U.S. Senate candidate <b>Roy Moore<\/b> accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of leaning on Alabama Democrats to help push Sen. <b>Luther Strange<\/b> to victory in next month&#8217;s GOP runoff. McConnell controls the Republican Senate&#8217;s campaign arm and has ties to a super PAC supporting Strange. \u00a0\u2018Well that&#8217;s exactly what their strategy is,\u2019 Moore told the\u00a0Daily Caller in an exclusive interview published Wednesday night.\u00a0\u2018\u2026I wish the people of Alabama knew that McConnell and them were using the Democrats to come into the Republican primary.\u2019 \u2026 Moore, who was removed twice as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, gave no other details of what he claimed\u00a0is an effort by McConnell to court state Democrats. But he claimed\u00a0the alleged strategy would turn off Democratic voters. \u2018I&#8217;ll tell you the truth. There are a lot of Democrats that understand about the acknowledgement of God\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Dems show (modest) confidence in their candidate &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Roll Call:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAs Republicans gear up\u00a0for a grueling\u00a0primary runoff in the Alabama special election Senate race, Democratic candidate\u00a0<b>Doug Jones<\/b>\u00a0has the race to himself. And Democrats see\u00a0Jones as\u00a0their best hope\u00a0for victory\u00a0in a\u00a0ruby-red state. But that\u2019s a tall order for Jones.\u00a0President Donald Trump won the state by 28 points in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>KELLY PUTS A STOP TO INTERNAL WHITE HOUSE COMPETITION\u00a0<br \/><\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cConfronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s chief of staff\u00a0<b>John Kelly<\/b>\u00a0is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition \u2014and to make himself the last word on the material that crosses the president\u2019s desk. \u2026 The new system, laid out in two memos co-authored by Kelly and [<b>Rob<\/b>\u00a0<b>Porter<\/b>] and distributed to Cabinet members and White House staffers in recent days, is designed to ensure that the president won\u2019t see any external policy documents, internal policy memos, agency reports, and even news articles that haven\u2019t been vetted. Kelly\u2019s deputy,\u00a0<b>Kristjen Nielson<\/b>, is also expected to assume an integral role. The keystone of the new system is a \u2018decision memo\u2019 that will \u2014 for each Trump policy \u2014 integrate the input of Cabinet agencies and policy councils and present the president with various options, as well as with the advantages and drawbacks of each one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>But can he control Trump? &#8211;\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Bloomberg:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTrump\u2019s appointment of Kelly has imposed new order on a White House that had been riven with infighting among warring camps. But it hasn\u2019t been the political lifeline Republican allies had hoped for, as Kelly has so far been unable to perform one of the chief of staff\u2019s most basic duties: to stop a president from following his worst instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>THE JUDGE\u2019S RULING:\u00a0A REVERSAL\u00a0<br \/><\/b>Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge\u00a0<b>Andrew Napolitano\u00a0<\/b>examines President Trump\u2019s about-face on the Afghan war: \u201cHe actually began attacking the war in Afghanistan long before he announced his presidential candidacy. If he has been consistent on any public issue, it has been his opposition to this useless, lawless, costly war &#8212; until he needed to change the subject.\u201d More\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>PLAY-BY-PLAY<\/b>\u00a0<i><br \/> White House to send memo on transgender ban to Pentagon in upcoming days<\/i>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Reuters<\/a><br \/><i><br \/> Rabbis shun Trump<\/i>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">NYT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Poll: 68 percent worry that Trump\u2019s behavior could lead to accidentally lead to international conflict &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">George Washington University\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<br \/><\/i><br \/><i>Race to unseat Manchin heats up<\/i>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Federalist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Federal judge tosses new Texas voter ID law<\/i>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Texas Tribune<\/a><br \/><b><br \/> AUDIBLE: YUP<\/b><br \/> \u201cI think it\u2019s a good time in politics to be humble.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<i>Sen.\u00a0<b>Amy Klobuchar<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">said<\/a>\u00a0to The Daily Show host\u00a0<b>Trevor Noah<\/b>.<b><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p> <b>FROM THE BLEACHERS<br \/><\/b>\u201cAs always your political analysis is spot on. You were missed while on vacation, but I am glad you got some much deserved time off.\u00a0I was pleased to see that Trump finally came around this week to announce a US strategy for Afghanistan that is in line with what his military and diplomatic advisors have been pushing him towards for months. But with no intelligible foreign policy doctrine, what happens when Generals Kelly, McMaster, and others are no longer in the President&#8217;s ear? As someone who has shown himself willing to adopt the position of the last person in the room is it possible that our foreign policy may change several times throughout this administration? I&#8217;d love to hear your input on this concern.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<b><i>Drew Watkins<\/i><\/b><i>, Lexington, Ky.<br \/><\/i><b><br \/><\/b>[<i>Ed. note: Thank you for the kind words, Mr. Watkins. I look at it a little differently, perhaps. I think the president, like many, if not most of us, usually does only the things he HAS to do. While he is prone to outbursts and harmful emotionality, Trump generally bows to reality when he runs out of options. Is it possible that if he loses or discharges his current team of national security advisers that the president could be led in a different direction by those who see a different set of obligations or who would tolerate a different set of outcomes? Certainly. But, one of the advantages of our professional military is that it tends to be a very reality-based entity. You can call it the \u201cdeep state,\u201d if you like, but the famous \u201cmilitary-industrial complex\u201d has ways of acting to check and restrain inhabitants of high offices, especially the president. With a different set of advisers Trump might entertain different policy options and might delay longer before acting on unpleasant tasks, but I tend to think he would lose his agency rather quickly if he deviated too far from political and strategic norms.<\/i>]<b><br \/><i><br \/><\/i><\/b>\u201cChris, your otherwise meticulously precise analysis of all matters constitutional slips into the same vernacular ditch as so many others by employing the popular, but inaccurate phrase \u2018jury of your peers\u2019. This phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, although I often see erudite legal analysis attempting to define the meaning of this \u2018constitutional right\u2019. If the Founders had given us a right to be judged by a \u2018jury of our peers\u2019 one could never settle on any working definition of a jury. Would my peer be occupational? Or of the same race, or socio-economic status?\u00a0 In fact the Sixth Amendment wisely grants the accused the right to trial only by \u2018an\u00a0impartial\u00a0jury\u2019. Upon reflection, this is certainly the standard by which all jurors should be selected.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<b><i>Jim Hubbard<\/i><\/b><i>, Reno Nev.<\/i><\/p>\n<p> [<i>Ed. note: You are quite right, Mr. Hubbard! Now, to be fair, we were talking about the motivations for the rebellious colonists, not the rights that would descend from that rebellion. As you well know, the colonists were offended by the idea that they were subject to return to the motherland for trial. They found this unjust since what might sound reasonable to jurors in Bladen County in the North Carolina Colony would seem absurd to jurors at the Old Bailey in London. The peerage the colonists were interested in was geographic and cultural. But as you point out, once independence had been won, the framework changed. We would all be Americans, with no distant juries to face. But your point is a good one and very much worth remembering as we remember the aims of our criminal justice system.<\/i>]<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe state of our federal government has devolved into something of low expectations and inadequate outcomes.\u00a0 We\u2019ve come to accept simple road projects that take two years to complete and bungling bureaucrats that spend more time protecting their own backsides while they turn a tin ear toward us common folk just trying to scratch out a living.\u00a0 Anytime someone dares to challenge \u2018the way it\u2019s done\u2019\u00a0(read: the way we\u2019ve always done it since I\u2019ve been here) is met with, \u2018you just don\u2019t understand how things get done around here.\u2019\u00a0Maybe it\u2019s time we, as the electorate, raise our standards, and hold the (often \u2018un\u2019) civil servants and elected officials accountable for their self-serving attitudes and actions.\u00a0 Some have said that we \u2018get the government that we\u00a0deserve\u2019.\u00a0 If we continue to elect (politicians) and employ (civil servants) self-serving people who are more committed to preserving the status quo and their own perks than really benefitting our community and country, then we will be doomed by our own hands to ever-devolving government quality and effectiveness.\u00a0 It is refreshing to hear someone of influence tell our lethargic, leviathan government, \u2018That\u2019s not good enough!\u2019\u00a0May that chorus increase in numbers and magnitude!\u201d \u2013\u00a0<b><i>Kent Haldorson<\/i><\/b><i>, Beaverton, Ore.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><\/i>[<i>Ed. note: You are no doubt right, Mr. Haldorson, that America has a bad case of declining expectations. But demanding better from elected officials only matters if you have an alternative at hand. And here\u2019s where it gets tricky. Everybody is a critic, but very few people want to join the cast of the show they are reviewing. As Americans understandably eschew public service and even public participation, the available pool of talent shrinks. We are approaching a future in which the assorted nuts who populate internet comment sections have more influence than reasonable, hard-working, rule-following Americans. It may not be unreasonable that people shun public life today, but that does not mean there will not be consequences for them and everybody else. If you want better roads or finer schools or more efficient government, you may find yourself obliged to run for office or volunteer for local projects. It\u2019s quite a catch-22: Americans deplore the low quality of their elected officials, but simultaneously refuse to volunteer to replace them. You, Mr. Haldorson, may have already made that leap and can point to a proud record of public service. But for most who complain bitterly about their leaders, being part of government or politics is the last thing they would ever want to do.<\/i>]<i><br \/><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><b>Share your color commentary:<\/b>\u00a0Email us at\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">HALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COM<\/a>\u00a0and please make sure to include your name and hometown.<\/p>\n<p><b>COMBO MEAL \u00a0<\/b><br \/><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">WGHP:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cA North Carolina father-to-be whose wife was in labor made a pit stop at Chick-fil-A on the way to the hospital Monday morning and grabbed a pack of his favorite chicken nuggets.\u00a0<b>Wess<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Lacey Cope<\/b>\u00a0were on their way to Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte around 8:30 a.m. when they took a little detour, the\u00a0Charlotte Observer\u00a0reports. \u2018She was relaxed, and I was starving,\u2019 Wess said. \u2018If you want Chick-fil-A to move fast, tell them your wife\u2019s in labor. They did.\u2019 Already having three children, Lacey was calm and let Wess pick up chicken nuggets, hash browns, and a sweet tea. Thankfully, the couple made it to the hospital and\u00a0<b>Finn Sullivan Cope<\/b>\u00a0was born by C-section at 4:02 p.m. \u2014 just minutes before the end of the eclipse in Charlotte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Chris Stirewalt\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>is the politics editor for Fox News.<b>\u00a0Brianna McClelland<\/b>\u00a0contributed to this report. Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\t<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Chris Stirewalt joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in July of 2010 and serves as politics editor based in Washington, D.C. Additionally, he authors the daily Fox News Halftime Report political news note and co-hosts the hit podcast, Perino  Stirewalt: I&#8217;ll Tell You What. He also is the host of Power Play, a feature video series on FoxNews.com. Stirewalt makes frequent appearances on network programs, including America\u2019s Newsroom, Special Report with Bret Baier and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He also provides expert political analysis for FNC\u2019s coverage of state, congressional and presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/P1iGAbpIQvI\/trumps-2020-campaign-complicates-present.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Want FOX News Halftime Report in your inbox every day? Sign up\u00a0here.** On the roster:\u00a0Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign complicates the present &#8211; I\u2019ll Tell You What:\u00a0Beep, beep, beep\u2026\u00a0&#8211; Trump blames Ryan, McConnell for debt limit fight &#8211; Alabama Senate primary race gets uglier &#8211; Combo meal \u00a0 TRUMP\u2019S 2020 CAMPAIGN COMPLICATES THE PRESENT\u00a0One of the perceived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-88015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}