{"id":40292,"date":"2019-12-13T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40292"},"modified":"2019-12-13T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:48:34","slug":"how-will-trump-lay-out-his-next-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40292","title":{"rendered":"How will Trump lay out his next agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2020-election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39586\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2020-election-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2020-election-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2020-election-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2020-election-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I look ahead to the upcoming presidential campaign, I keep wondering just how Donald J. Trump is going to campaign for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Will he actually offer an agenda for the next four years? Or will he get into the name-calling game that helped get him elected in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Ann Richards sought re-election to a second term in 1994, but got beat by a political newcomer, George W. Bush. Part of Gov. Richards&#8217; undoing was her seeming inability to lay out a second-term agenda as Texas governor. Bush, meanwhile, stayed focused on his own agenda and campaigned relentlessly without veering too far from his talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Richards, meanwhile, got too negative in her effort to derail the up-and-comer. It didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>So, will the president borrow a page from the failed Ann Richards playbook?<\/p>\n<p>The major issue, from my standpoint, is that Trump&#8217;s initial agenda has been buried under the chaos and confusion that has been hallmark of his term in office. How will the Democratic nominee campaign against that first term? I suppose he or she will point correctly &#8212; in my view &#8212; to the chaotic nature of the president&#8217;s (hoped-for only) term.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, meanwhile, likely will be true to form and respond with the blizzard of insults and innuendo that became the centerpiece of his victorious campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Second-term agenda? <em>Hah!<\/em> There well might not be a mention of it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I look ahead to the upcoming presidential campaign, I keep wondering just how Donald J. Trump is going to campaign for a second term. Will he actually offer an agenda for the next four years? Or will he get into the name-calling game that helped get him elected in the first place? Texas Gov. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How will Trump lay out his next agenda?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,395,1424,1899],"class_list":["post-40292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-ann-richards","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40293,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40292\/revisions\/40293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}