{"id":86111,"date":"2019-11-03T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86111"},"modified":"2019-11-03T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T18:57:20","slug":"afp-a-year-before-2020-election-a-divided-and-angry-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86111","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) A year before 2020 election, a divided and &#8216;angry&#8217; America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America on Sunday kicked off the one-year countdown to Election Day 2020, with President Donald Trump betting an &#8220;angry&#8221; Republican surge can deliver him a second term, and Democratic candidates battling for a chance to win back the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The building clash &#8212; dramatically fueled by the House of Representatives&#8217; impeachment inquiry into Trump &#8212; virtually guarantees another year of division in a nation grown weary of such drama.<\/p>\n<p>Polls suggest the country couldn&#8217;t be much more divided.<\/p>\n<p>The latest projection from a University of Virginia political science team points to a dead-even 2020 race, with each party leading in states totaling 248 electoral college votes &#8212; short of the 270 needed for election.<\/p>\n<p>The division is reflected in the House, where the vote Thursday to formalize the impeachment inquiry passed almost entirely on party lines &#8212; more partisan than any of the three previous impeachment votes in US history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/2020-election-divided-angry-america-052529338.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">America on Sunday kicked off the one-year countdown to Election Day 2020, with President Donald Trump betting an &#8220;angry&#8221; Republican surge can deliver him a second term, and Democratic candidates battling for a chance to win back the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MZMUdbe1va\">https:\/\/t.co\/MZMUdbe1va<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFP news agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1191066260953534464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America on Sunday kicked off the one-year countdown to Election Day 2020, with President Donald Trump betting an &#8220;angry&#8221; Republican surge can deliver him a second term, and Democratic candidates battling for a chance to win back the White House.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86111\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86113,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86111\/revisions\/86113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}