# What will a Trump Presidency be like?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 22, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-a-trump-presidency-be-like/755356 "2016-05-22T09:14:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-a-trump-presidency-be-like/755356/23 "2016-05-22T20:23:23Z")

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> Trump will not be President.

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The _Washington Examiner_ today reported the following:

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> It’s not the headline, and it takes 219 words to get there, but a new _Washington Post_ poll on the presidential race reveals that Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton among registered voters 46 percent to 44 percent.

[Cite](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/begrudging-wapo-poll-trump-46-clinton-44/article/2591982) (Contains link to the WaPo poll, which jumps through a lot of hoops to focus on sidebar aspects that suggest Trump isn’t really doing that well despite being ahead with registered voters.)

I’m telling you guys, I’ve followed Trump for decades, and more and more I have the sinking feeling he’s going to get himself elected. He’s hella smart, knows exactly what he’s doing and what he can get away with and how he’ll come out ahead despite (or perhaps because of) all his flip-flops, belligerent rhetoric and ambiguity on the issues. He knows things about the American electorate that nobody else knows (and most would think impossible if they weren’t seeing it with their own eyes) and how to use it to his advantage. Harry Reid himself has warned about the danger of underestimating Donald Trump and I’d suggest to anyone convinced he’ll never win the presidency that they keep this in mind.

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