MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th June, 2019) US President Donald Trump officially launched his 2020 White House re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.

"Tonight I stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the United States," Trump said. </s> US President Donald Trump is en route to officially launch his 2020 campaign in what he’s promised will be a “wild” appearance, in Orlando, Florida.

According to presidential advisers, Mr Trump will use his time on stage to make the case that the first 2.5 years of his administration have been about “promises made” and “promises kept”. He’s expected to point to the strong US economy and the actions he’s taken on issues including taxes, military spending and judicial appointments, the Washington Post reports.

Mr Trump hopes to keep his foothold in a state that delivered 29 electoral votes on his way to the White House in 2016. The President carried Florida by about a percentage point in 2016. Last year, Republicans won closely contested statewide races for governor and the US Senate there.

Orlando is at the centre of the Interstate 4 corridor, stretching from Tampa to Daytona Beach, in the nation’s largest swing state. Mr Trump will be joined by first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, several members of his family and 2016 campaign staff.

The rally comes after both public and leaked internal campaign polls showed him trailing major Democratic rivals, including Joe Biden. The President deemed the polls “fake” and insisted he was “winning big” before three of five pollsters — including one polling firm formerly owned by Kellyanne Conway, the president’s adviser and former campaign manager — were fired from his re-election campaign.

Mr Trump said his campaign launch would be a “wild” political spectacle.

“People have never seen anything like it (unless you play a guitar). Going to be wild — See you later,” he wrote in a tweet.

Campaign advisers predict Mr Trump will seek to connect his first term to the goals he hopes to achieve with four more years as president.

Some supporters started lining up on Monday to attend the event in the Amway Centre arena, which holds some 18,500 people.

A boisterous crowd of thousands of supporters has since gathered outside.

A cover band on a stage played southern rock standards such as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home, Alabama. Vendors for blocks around sold water as well as pins, hats and T-shirts with slogans including “Trump 2020” and “ICE ICE Baby”. In the summer heat, some women wore “Make America Great Again” bathing suits.

To Mr Trump, Republican enthusiasm is at its highest. But the political event is also drawing critics.

Protesters have gathered at a nearby gay bar where a mariachi band and a drag queen will perform in what organisers say will be a public rebuttal to the President’s policies.

Protest organiser Ida Eskamani said the massacre of 49 people at the gay Pulse club three years ago was a turning point for Orlando community leaders in embracing ideas of diversity and tolerance. The club closed after the shooting, and a planned memorial is in development on the site.

The “Baby Trump” blimp is expected to make an appearance at the event after organisers raised money to bring it from south Florida. However, the blimp will stay at the bar, located about three blocks from the arena, due to presidential airspace restrictions, Ms Eskamani said.

The chairman of the local Republican Party said Mr Trump was fighting for all Americans.

Orange County Republican Executive Committee chairman Charles Hart said “for them to say Donald Trump doesn’t like gay people is wrong”.

“For them to say Donald Trump doesn’t like Hispanics is wrong,” Mr Hart continued.

The Trump administration has recently moved to revoke newly won healthcare protections for transgender people, restrict their presence in the military and withdraw federal guidance that trans students should be able to use bathrooms of their choice.

The city is also home to a large Puerto Rican population. Opponents blame the Republican President for holding up disaster aid to Puerto Rico over a feud with Democratic leaders on the island.

Orlando’s hometown newspaper said on Tuesday in an editorial it wouldn’t endorse Mr Trump.

“Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election and before knowing the identity of his opponent,” the Orlando Sentinel wrote. “Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.” The editorial went on to say it had “enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandisement, the corruption, and especially the lies”. </s> US President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday in front of a large crowd in Orlando, Florida.

"We are going to keep making America great again and then we will indeed keep America great," Trump said as he attacked his opponents and the media.

"We are going to keep it better than ever before and that is why I stand before you tonight to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the United States," Trump told the crowd at an arena in Orlando.

The announcement comes amid calls for impeachment, continuing congressional probes into his presidency and administration and deepening divisions over his hardline immigration policies. But Trump's speech also comes as the economy continues to grow and the Republican president maintains deep support among his base.

Although Tuesday's speech is being billed as the official beginning of Trump's 2020 bid, the businessman-turned-politician filed the paperwork officially announcing his bid within hours of his inauguration on January 20, 2017. He has since held campaign-style rallies throughout the United States.

On Tuesday, Trump's attacks against socialism and his doubling down on conservative stances on nationalism, abortion, family, the judiciary and guns were positively received by the loyalist crowd, who often erupted in "USA" and "Make America Great" chants throughout the event.

People sit in the stands with a flag before a rally for US President Donald Trump at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida,[Carlo Allegri/Reuters]

Two-and-a-half years into his tenure, Trump sees plenty of positive factors, led by a growing economy with low unemployment.

"If the economy stays strong, he is very likely to get re-elected," said Trump confidant Newt Gingrich, a former Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Trump touted the economy throughout Tuesday's speech, saying "it's soaring to incredible new heights".

The US president also received a large round of applause when he brought his tax cuts, saying, "we've done so much ... with the biggest tax cut in history."

But according to an Associated Press fact check, Trump's tax cuts are nowhere close to the biggest in US history.

It's a $1.5 trillion tax cut over 10 years. As a share of the total economy, a tax cut of that size ranks 12th, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Former President Ronald Reagan's 1981 cut is the biggest, followed by the 1945 rollback of taxes that financed World War II.

Peek into this campaign

Despite the packed crowd at the Orlando arena on Tuesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, coupled with a presidential style marked by name-calling and eye-popping tweets, has undermined some Americans' confidence in Trump before the November 2020 election.

Trump also has stirred division with his hardline policies on immigration and unsettled business and farm groups with his use of tariffs in trade disputes with China and some allies.

As he left the White House on Tuesday for Florida, Trump said that a mass roundup of undocumented immigrants would start next week. He did not elaborate, and rights groups and Democrats have accused the president of sowing fear in the run-up to his re-election launch.

Demonstrators march on Brooklyn Bridge during 'Keep Families Together' march to protest Trump administration's immigration policy in New York [File: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, the top Democratic elected official, said in a statement on Tuesday, "the President’s new threat of a mass deportation dragnet is an act of utter malice and bigotry, designed solely to inject fear in our communities."

Analysts say Trump's rhetoric just before Tuesday's rally seemed to offer a peek into a campaign that will largely be fought along the same lines as his first bid, with very few new policy proposals for a second term.

During Tuesday's rally, Trump continued to rail against irregular immigration, repeatedly returning to the topic throughout his speech, including throwing out claims about undocumented immigrants without providing evidence.

Trump must defend presidential record

Those involved in the president's re-election effort believe Trump's mantra to "Drain the Swamp", still resonates, despite his administration's cosy ties with lobbyists and corporations and the Trump family's apparent efforts to profit off the presidency.

"He's still not viewed as a politician," said Jason Miller, Trump's 2016 senior communications adviser. "Voters don't define him by the party label, they define him by his policies and his message of shaking up the status quo in Washington. That's the biggest reason he was able to win blue states in 2016."



But Democrats cite a string of broken promises in Trump's first term, from lowering medicine prices to closing corporate tax loopholes and stopping plant closures, as well as his crackdowns on women's rights and immigrants.



In a media call on Tuesday, Democratic Party officials focused on his moves to weaken the signature healthcare law of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, without providing an alternative.



"The thing that is working to our advantage is that this president now has a record to run on," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.

Unlike in 2016, Trump must now defend his presidential record, which includes a number of controversial policies, from his trade war with China to his handling of the US relationship with Saudi Arabia following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the mounting death toll in the Saudi-UAE war in Yemen.

There have also been increased calls from some Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, to begin impeachment proceedings over potential obstruction of justice during Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump, who has repeatedly called the investigation a witch-hunt, again accused Democrats of wanting a "re-do" because they didn't like the results of the probe.



In parts of an ABC interview published last week, Trump said he would see nothing wrong in accepting damaging information on a political opponent in the coming 2020 presidential elections if it were offered by a foreign government.



He later attempted walked back on those comments a bit, saying "of course" he'd look at damaging information offered, but he would alert the FBI if the information was "bad".



So far, Democratic leadership has urged caution over impeachment talk, instead, focusing on a myriad of congressional probes into the president, his administration and his businesses.

Uphill battle?

But Trump is eager to use the power of his office to further his case for re-election. Last month in Louisiana, he promised voters a new bridge if he won, and in the pivotal Florida Panhandle, he pledged new disaster relief money would flow in a second Trump term.

Trump advisers also point to his popularity among white working-class voters, who consider themselves "forgotten Americans" left behind and mocked by elite insiders. For those voters, many of whom in 2016 cast their first ballots in decades, Trump remains the embodiment of their outsider grievances, their anger stoked by his clashes with political foes and the rest of government - even when his party controls it.

Advisers believe that, in an age of extreme polarisation, many Trump backers view their support for the president as part of their identity, one not easily shaken. They point to his seemingly unmovable support with his base supporters as evidence that, despite more than two years in office, he is still viewed the same way he was as a candidate in 2016.

Supporters turn out hours before US President Donald Trump is to appear at a rally to officially announce his 2020 re-election bid at the Amway Center [Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP]

In Florida on Tuesday, Trump supporters began lining up for the president's rally a full day in advance, local media reported.

"It was like a big Trump party," Maureen Bailey, who slept in a tent with her twin sister, told Reuters news agency.

Local Democratic Party officials planned a "Win With Love" rally a few blocks from the Trump rally.

Trump will so far face one Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, who has little name-recognition among Americans.

Rival Democrats have more than 20 presidential contenders vying for the nomination.

A Quinnipiac University poll, released on Tuesday, showed Trump trailing the early Democratic frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, by nine percentage points in Florida, which has been a key state for presidential candidates for decades.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the more progressive candidates, are also ahead of Trump in Florida.

Trump has blasted the poll numbers, pointing to his 2016 election victory, which was not predicted by the majority of polling data. </s> United States President Donald Trump launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday amid chants of “USA, USA” at a rally in Orlando in Florida, AFP reported.

“We did it once and we’re going to do it again – and this time we’re going to finish the job,” he said, while promising over 20,000 supporters an “earthquake at the ballot box”. “Our economy is the envy of the world.”

Trump told the crowd he will “keep America great again”. “Oh we will keep it so great,” he said. “Better than ever before. And that is why tonight I stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as president of the United States.”

The president also encouraged the crowd to boo journalists covering the event, calling them “fake news.” He then accused the Democrats of seeking to “rip your country apart.”

“Just think what this angry left-wing mob would do if they were in charge of this country,” Reuters quoted him as saying. “Imagine if we had a Democrat president and a Democrat Congress in 2020. They would shut down your free speech, use the power of the law to punish their opponents.”

Trump said his Democratic opponents would radically change the US and that they would seek to legalise migrants coming across the southern border so they could vote and boost the Democratic political base. Trump had warned of the threat of illegal immigration and promised a crackdown during his 2016 presidential campaign as well.

Trump, who has been accused by opponents of wide-ranging corruption, told the crowd that together they had formed “a great political movement” that had “stared down a broken and corrupt political establishment.”

Early poll numbers show that Trump faces a difficult race, but his re-election fight is marked by soaring growth, low unemployment, and confidence in the loyalty of his right-wing base. A wide range of polls show Trump lagging far behind Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, who is campaigning on a promise to return the country to what he portrays as the calmer days of former President Barack Obama, under whom he served as vice president. </s> The day before the 2016 general election, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will return to where it all started in Florida.

On Monday, Trump will hold a rally at Robarts Arena in Sarasota starting at 11 a.m.

Sarasota GOP Chairman Joe Gruters, who serves as Trump’s co-chairman in Florida, opened the nominee’s first state field office downtown a year ago. </s> Fans of US President Donald Trump camped out since Monday in hopes of getting a good seat as he officially launched his 2020 "Keep America Great" re-election campaign with Vice President Mike Pence in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday evening.

In fact, Trump filed his campaign with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on January 20, 2017 — the day he took the oath of office — and began campaigning shortly thereafter. Tuesday, however, is being billed as the official start of his 2020 re-election bid.

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The site of the announcement is key, as Florida is a must-win state for anyone looking to win the race. It is also a key battleground state, and votes in the past have often been to close to call - as was famously the case in the year 2000, when an inability to find a winner in Florida let to the Supreme Court handing the presidency to George W. Bush.

Trump has spent more than 100 days in Florida since he became president, holding rallies, fundraisers, and visiting his properties in the "Sunshine State," requiring public money to beef up security at places like Mar-A-Lago, which was equipped as the White House.

On the ground in Orlando

DW's Alexandra von Nahmen was on the ground in Orlando and spoke with a number of the president's supporters. All voiced their support for him and spoke about the issues that were important to them.

"We support President Trump because he has fulfilled everything he promised to do. He is a man of his word. And that's a wonderful thing to see," Gustavo Ortega told DW.

Ortega says the president has delivered on the economy and jobs. But he adds: "What we love about him is that he is not a politician. That's basically what sets him apart from everybody else."

Trump's claims over what he has done about the economy remain controversial, not only because he inherited a strong economy from his predecessor Barack Obama, but because his policies such as increased tariffs have hurt most the Americans he promised to champion, such as farmers and factory workers. Tariffs have also seen foreign and domestic companies alike nix plans to expand and provide more jobs in the US.

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Recent media reports on leaked internal poll numbers showing Trump trailing Democratic challengers in several key states led the president to fire three pollsters on Monday. Trump responded to the unfavorable facts by claiming that such polls don't exist, calling the news "fake" and then denying the importance of voter surveys.

Those assertions are reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous claims that a "great silent majority" of Americans supported him despite broad and vocal opposition to his policies in the late 1960s.

That sentiment was echoed by Orlando resident and Trump supporter Eduard Whelan Portilla:"Trump voters don't identify themselves in polls and they don't put out yard signs. They are afraid of Democrats breaking them and throwing stones at their houses. So there is a tremendous amount of secret support for Trump."

Asked about the chances of Trump being re-elected, Portilla said, "It is going to happen again, because the news media and the Democrats are a bunch of fools."

Trump fans are fervent in their support, even in the face of the president's contradictory statements and actions. One rally-goer, Blake Marnell from San Diego, embodies that devotion. Sporting a "Make America Great Again" cap and a brick-patterned suit, Marnell arrived in Orlando at midnight and slept just two hours to be in a front row.

Speaking of his suit, Marnell says: "I support barriers at America's southern border to keep illegal narcotics and human trafficking out. As a whole, America needs to take care of itself before it worries about taking care of some of the other things we have been involved with over the last 20 years in term of wars in the Middle East and things like that. We definitely have to deal with some issues here in America first."

He, too, is confident that Trump will be re-elected, "I believe that the American people, when they examine the issues, will actually decide to vote for him because he has been the most effective president we've ever had."

However, sheriffs at the US-Mexico border, including Republicans, have consistently maintained that a border-length wall is neither helpful in curbing illegal immigration nor a realistic project.

Laureen Vartanian and her sister Maureen Bailey drove an hour from their hometown of Port Orange to arrive in Orlando at 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning in hopes of scoring a front-row seat, "We wanted to see our president up close," says Vartanian. "We went to other rallies. But this is a historical event. It is an honor and we love him and what he has done for our country."

Bailey echoed a claim that Trump has often made, saying, "He has done more for his country than any president in the last 50 years."

Each evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here. </s> WASHINGTON -- Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Donald Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term.Addressing a crowd of thousands at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, Trump complained he had been "under assault from the very first day" of his presidency by a "fake news media" and "illegal witch hunt" that had tried to keep him and his supporters down.And he painted a disturbing picture of what life would look like if he loses in 2020, accusing his critics of "un-American conduct" and telling the crowd that Democrats "want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it."The apocalyptic language and finger-pointing made clear that Trump's 2020 campaign will probably look a whole lot like his improbably successful run three years ago. While Trump's campaign has tried to professionalize, with shiny office space and a large and growing staff, and despite two-and-a-half years occupying the Oval Office as America's commander-in-chief, Trump nonetheless remained focused on energizing his base and offering himself as a political outsider running against Washington.And he appeared eager for a rerun of 2016, spending considerable time focused on former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, whose name elicited "Lock her up!" chants, even though she is not on the ballot."I have news for Democrats who want to return us to the bitter failures and betrayals of the past. We are not going back. We are going on to victory," Trump said.Trump spoke fondly of his 2016 run, calling it "a defining moment in American history." And he said he had fundamentally upended Washington, staring down "a corrupt and broken political establishment" and restoring a government "of, for and by the people."Of course, Trump never really stopped running. He officially filed for re-election on January 20, 2017, the day of his inauguration, and held his first 2020 rally in February, 2017, in nearby Melbourne, Florida. He has continued holding his signature "Make America Great Again" rallies in the months since.Trump is hoping to replicate the dynamics that allowed him to capture the Republican Party and then the presidency in 2016 as an insurgent intent on disrupting the status quo.But any president is inherently an insider. Trump has worked in the White House for two-and-a-half years, travels the skies in Air Force One and changes the course of history with the stroke of a pen or the post of a tweet.That populist clarion was a central theme of his maiden political adventure, as the businessman-turned-candidate successfully appealed to disaffected voters who felt left behind by economic dislocation and demographic shifts. And he has no intention of abandoning it, even if he is the face of the institutions he looks to disrupt.He underscored that on the eve of the rally in the must-win swing state of Florida, returning to the hard-line immigration themes of his first campaign by tweeting that, next week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement "will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States." That promise, which came with no details and sparked Democratic condemnation, seemed to offer a peek into a campaign that will largely be fought along the same lines as his first bid, with very few new policy proposals for a second term.Early Democratic front-runner Joe Biden said Tuesday that Trump's politics are "all about dividing us" in ways that are "dangerous - truly, truly dangerous."But those involved in the president's reelection effort believe that his brash version of populism, combined with his mantra to "Drain the Swamp," still resonates, despite his administration's cozy ties with lobbyists and corporations and the Trump family's apparent efforts to profit off the presidency.Advisers believe that, in an age of extreme polarization, many Trump backers view their support for the president as part of their identity, one not easily shaken. They point to his seemingly unmovable support with his base supporters as evidence that, despite more than two years in office, he is still viewed the same way he was as a candidate: the bomb-throwing political rebel.Trump and those who spoke before him also tried to make the case that Trump had made good on his 2016 promises, including cracking down on illegal immigration and boosting jobs."He said he'd make America great again and that's exactly what we've done," Vice President Mike Pence said in his introduction.On Monday, a boisterous crowd of thousands of Trump supporters, many of them in red hats, began gathering outside the Amway Center arena in Orlando, where the campaign had organized a festival with live music and food trucks.They spent Tuesday braving downpours and listening to a cover band playing Southern rock standards such as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" at an outdoor "45 Fest" the campaign organized to energize the crowd. Vendors sold water, as well as pins, hats and T-shirts with slogans including "Trump 2020" and "ICE ICE Baby," a reference to the law enforcement agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws. In the high-80s heat, some women wore "Make American Great Again" bathing suits."Trump has been the best president we've ever had," said Ron Freitas, a retired Merchant Marine and registered Democrat from the Orlando area who sat in a lawn chair. Freitas said he was sure Trump would prevail over whomever his Democratic opponent was.Alex Fuentes, a municipal diesel mechanic, wore a shirt that said "Make Democrats cry again." He said he was an Iraq veteran who twice voted for Barack Obama but parted company with Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, mostly over foreign policy."There's a lot of minorities that are hidden Trump supporters," Fuentes said.Close by, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters clapped and took photos when a 20-foot (6-meter) blimp of a snarling Trump baby in a diaper was inflated. The blimp looks like the one that flew in London during Trump's recent state visit but is not the same one."The goal is to get under his skin," said Mark Offerman, the blimp's handler.Protester Shaun Noble wore a rainbow-colored sign that said "Super, Callous, Fragile, Racist, Sexist, Nazi, POTUS."Noble's mother was at the Trump rally while he was at the anti-Trump protest."It's really caused a divide in our relationship," Noble said. "But it's my right to believe what I want to believe in, and it's her right to believe what she wants to believe." </s> Read: Trump is kicking off his reelection campaign 29 days into his presidency

The president continued to host sporadic campaign-style rallies over the next year. Then, in March 2018, while House Republicans were scrambling to hold back a Democratic wave, Trump decided to pitch in for the effort by … announcing his new slogan for the 2020 race. Only it was the same slogan he’d previewed to the Post in January 2017. (This did not prevent the media from dutifully reporting he had unveiled a new slogan.)

Two months later, in May 2018, Trump once again presented the slogan as a brand-new reveal. “By the way, this is the first, for Indiana,” he said. “Our new slogan for 2020. You know what it is? ‘Keep America Great.’ Because we’re doing so well that in another two years, when we start the heavy campaign, ‘Make America Great Again’ wouldn’t work out too well.” Reporters once again gave him credit for novelty. Six months later, Trump’s allies were whomped at the polls. Meanwhile, his reelection campaign has rolled on, with Orlando its latest stop.

When Trump went to Florida in February 2017, I identified the rally as an example of the “permanent campaign”—a notion dating to the 1980s and since ensconced, in which officeholders maintain some of the methods and tactics of the campaign while remaining in office, from rallies to poll testing. It’s a staple for every president now. Bill Clinton, the president most associated with the permanent campaign, had the earliest “official” launch in recent memory, according to NPR—but Trump will edge him by three days.

But labeling Trump’s rally a part of the permanent campaign turned out not to be prescient so much as an egregious understatement. The point of a campaign launch used to be to signal that the period of governing—of passing legislation and enacting policy—was largely wrapping up, and that the focus would shift back to electoral politics. In the permanent-campaign paradigm, a president would run a policy track and a politics track in parallel.

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Trump has fully unified them. He can’t turn back to campaigning from governing, because he never really bothered to start governing in the first place. With the exception of cutting taxes and especially building a wall on the Mexican border, he’s never shown much interest in learning how the levers of power work or in using them. Whereas Barack Obama held rallies in early 2009 to support the passage of his health-care bill, Trump held rallies in early 2017 for the purpose of being reelected nearly four years later.

The problem with skating from crisis to crisis with few accomplishments to show for it is that eventually the public becomes fatigued. There are signs of growing public boredom with Trump. A newsy, blockbuster interview with George Stephanopoulos this past weekend drew disappointing ratings. The New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger has noted declining reader interest in political news. The president’s outlandish remarks generally make a smaller splash than they once did. He seems to have tried to compensate for that by tweeting more, but the result is something like inflation in a market flooded with currency: Every tweet is less valuable. </s> Despite recent polls pointing to a tough re-election battle, Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale believes an “electoral landslide” is at hand for the president.

Speaking with CBS News, Parscale told Major Garrett that the president will again win Florida, where he officially launched his campaign for re-election with a rally Tuesday night in Orlando.

“I think [he’ll have] even more electoral points than he did last time,” said Parscale.

In 2016, Trump scored narrow victories over Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, propelling him to 306 electoral votes despite losing the popular vote. – read more
U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at a rally in Orlando, Florida is billed as the official launch of his re-election campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election. He previously filed on January 20, 2017 paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) officially announcing his bid for the 2020 presidential election.