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The 2020 Election Will Break History

This year, Americans will almost certainly elect the oldest president, the youngest president, or the only president to ever win reelection following impeachment.
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The 2020 election will be unprecedented, no matter what. Either President Donald Trump’s victory will shatter expectations and academic theories, or his defeat will.

If Trump wins in 2020, he will be the first and only impeached president to win reelection. Barring a major change in national polls, he will also be the first president to be elected twice without once winning the popular vote.

And if he loses? It would mark “the greatest presidential fumble of economic and market tailwinds in modern history,” according to of J.P. Morgan.

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