Article snippet: CNN’s Chris Cillizza is predicting President Trump would “lose” the election if it were now. “If the 2020 election were today, Trump would lose,” the headline of a piece Cillizza wrote over the weekend blares across CNN’s website, with the senior CNN analyst writing that it is a “good thing” for Trump that election day is more than 600 days away. To make his point that Trump would lose the election if it were today, Cillizza cites approval rating data from Gallup. He quotes this particular passage from a Gallup piece on Trump’s approval ratings: After giving some more of his own analysis on what Trump needs to do between now and November 2020 to win in these key states, Cillizza then admits all of this analysis he has cobbled together actually means nothing. “Now. Approval rating is obviously not purely predictive of vote,” Cillizza wrote. “After all, Trump won the 2016 election even though only 38% of voters viewed him favorably, according to exit polling. But if you are Trump, these numbers have to worry you. It suggests he has LOTS of work to do in the next 620 days.” Interestingly, back when Cillizza worked at the Washington Post in 2016 before he joined CNN’s crack politics team, he wrote a similar piece predicting Trump has no chance at beating then-Democrat nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. The piece was headlined: “Donald Trump’s chances of winning are approaching zero.” The piece, published 15 days before Trump smoked Clinton in the electoral college winni... Link to the full article to read more