Michael Moore says Donald Trump will be re-elected in 2020
'He will win those electoral states as it stands now'
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Your support makes all the difference.Documentary maker Michael Moore has been an increasingly vocal opponent to President Donald Trump, recently saying: "This guy's going to get us all killed.”
Despite the doom-mongering, Moore believes Trump will retain office come 2020, telling Fast Company: “I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020. But he will win those electoral states as it stands now.”
Moore believes that by generating momentum against Trump, the President can be stopped. Show’s such as his anti-Trump Broadway show, The Terms of My Surrender, which is currently three weeks into its run, can help the cause.
“Here’s the good news: We don’t have to convince a single Trump voter to vote differently because we already have the majority,” Moore added, referencing how Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million.
Unfortunately, Clinton lost thanks to America’s electoral college system, 77,000 votes making the difference between a Democratic leadership and Republican. As Moore says, there’s little chance the voting system will change before 2020.
While trying to get every State to award the right points to the person who wins the popular vote, the real key’s getting everyone behind a single candidate.
“Eight million Obama voters voted for Trump,” Moore continued. “We just need to convince a few of them–hold out our hand and bring them back. Can we do that? I think we can do that.
You know, there were seven-and-a-half million that voted Green or Libertarian. I think we can convince a few of them to come back. We don’t need to convince a whole lot here.”
The Fahrenheit 9/11 director is fierce critic of Mr Trump, who he accused of committing "a crime against humanity" by pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement. The Terms of My Surrender is scheduled to run at the Belasco Theatre until October 22.
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