I mentioned on the latest edition of The Editors how big a swing 2020 will be for Trump. Any incumbent president obviously has a lot on the line whether he wins a second term. Consider the stakes for Trump, though: If he loses, it presumably won’t be a gracious exit and then he’ll go back to New York probably to be indicted and stand trial in fairly short order. If he wins, in contrast, he may be in a position at the end of his second term to try to shoulder aside Mike Pence as a successor in favor of Don Jr. or Ivanka. The personal stakes for Trump next year will be enormous.

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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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