Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H.

Trump is still on track for reelection based on my composite analysis of all the available quantitative and qualitative data, but Democrats could change that if they get their political act together.

Even more disturbing is that the majority and minority Democratic leadership continues to give him a pass because they naively believe that he has the best chance to defeat Trump in 2020. They fail to realize that his increasingly observable decline will put them at risk of a blowout in 2020.

It is paradoxical that Booker has been Biden’s staunchest critic since he has been supported by the same conservative Wall Street financiers who back Biden and whose predecessors also backed Sens. Eastland and Talmadge. Moreover, Booker has supported school vouchers and traditional and corporate charter schools, as has Biden, who was a point man for charters during the Obama administration.

Democrats appear to have a limited understanding, or ability, to respond to Trump’s mendacity, political strategies, and his stranglehold on the Republican Party. He has unified Republicans in a way that Democrats can only envy as the more than twenty 2020 presidential candidates prepare to take the debate stage.

if teachers and public education supporters do not take a strong hand in pruning the ‘DemoPublicans’ from the 2020 field, it will not matter whether a Democrat or Trump wins the White House.

There are few legal responses to voter suppression (with the exception of Stacey Abram’s Fair Fight initiative), and no widespread organizing of communities of color by the Democratic National Committee or the 24 presidential candidates. Instead, these would-be presidents insist on using the polls to guide their campaign emphases as did Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Republicans are pulling out all stops in their efforts to reelect President Trump, retain control of the U.S. Senate, and to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives. And like their rogue President, Donald J. Trump, they are attempting to achieve these outcomes (and are doing so) by unethical and illegal means.

Republican focus on uniting their base and refining their voter turnout methods, and Trump’s development and exploitation of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments. Democrats are na�ve in their lack of understanding that Republicans are systematically moving the nation toward economic, political, and judicial Apartheid in plain sight.

Along with anti-abortion measures, the Trump coalition continues to push anti-immigrant/anti-minority policies to ramp up his base to turn out in large numbers and to widen cleavages in the Democratic base—between the socialist left and the mainstream, and within the African American community.