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The Bret Baier Podcast

A Look Back At The 2020 Candidates

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Radio

News, Politics, News Commentary

3.6681 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week, we revisit three panel discussions from early on in the 2020 presidential campaign to hear first impressions of the candidates. Bret and the panel discuss the chances and campaign strategies of then-candidates, President Trump, Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Biden. Follow Bret on Twitter: @BretBaier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.4

The 2020 campaign for president is over, and Joe Biden has been projected to win the presidency.

0:51.5

This week on the campaign, we're looking back at some of the first impressions of the candidates.

0:56.7

On August 6th, 2019, Brett and the panel discussed President Donald Trump's chances in the 2020 race. To bring in our panel, Hugo Gurdon, editor-in-chief of

1:02.9

the Washington Examiner, Matthew Contonetti, editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon,

1:08.0

and Chris Dyerwald, Fox News Politics Editor.

1:11.5

Okay, a lot to talk about President Trump, but on a re-election bid, Matt, where do you see him in this time frame?

1:20.9

As the Democrats are kind of sorting themselves out, he's fighting off impeachment, but dealing with a pretty strong economy that is still cooking.

1:29.8

And that's his ace in the hole. And we see this disparity between his approval on the economy

1:34.7

and then his job approval overall. And so the economy rating, which is over 50%, is where any

1:42.4

incumbent would want to be. His overall job approval rating is kind of stuck in the mid-40s,

1:47.2

which is around where Barack Obama's was at this point in the 2012 cycle.

1:52.7

So President Trump, I think, as long in the absence of recession or war,

1:58.6

has a good chance of being reelected next year.

2:03.2

He's obviously hitting immigration, Hugo, hard again.

2:07.0

It helped him in the first campaign.

2:09.3

It seems to be an issue that is on the top of people's concerns when they're asked of issues that they're concerned about.

2:16.4

Yeah.

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