NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Former senior adviser for President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and lobbyist David Urban believes Trump could lose the 2020 popular vote “by millions” but isn’t concerned about any Democrat in the field taking the Oval Office.
Urban, who’s also a CNN contributor, expressed his belief that the president could again lose the popular vote just as he did in 2016, but he added that he cannot envision a Democrat getting the necessary electoral college votes to limit Trump to one term in office.
The lobbyist said Trump could “lose by millions of votes” and specifically cited big cities such as Los Angeles, California, as one of the reasons Trump could get fewer votes than the Democratic nominee while speaking on a Sunday panel at Politicon, which bills itself as “the unconventional political convention.”
In the 2016 presidential election, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received approximately 3 million more votes than Trump, despite his winning the electoral college 304-227. Trump won the election by approximately 77,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and Clinton would have won the election had she taken those three states.
“I’m not worried about any particular candidate, because I think as long as the Democratic Party espouses the views that, ‘We’re going to take your gun, we’re going to eliminate the border’ … the president will get reelected,” Urban clarified his comments to the Washington Examiner.
He also pointed to other liberal issues including free college, free healthcare, the Green New Deal, and eliminating the use of fossil fuels as reasons Trump should be optimistic about next November.
“As long as the Democratic candidate, doesn’t matter who it is, that’s that — that’s the platform they’re going to run on. It doesn’t matter. This president will be reelected overwhelmingly because those things are just crazy. They are crazy,” he added.
