1 Year Out: A divided nation lurches toward 2020 election

One year from Sunday, voters will decide whether to grant President Donald Trump a second term in office, an election that will be a referendum on Trump's vision for America's culture and role in the world.

Much is unknown about how the United States and its politics will look on Nov 3, 2020.

Who will Trump's opponent be? How will Democrats resolve the ideological, generational and demographic questions roiling their primary?
Will a strong economy shore up Trump's support or will recession warning signs turn into a reality? Will Trump face voters as just the third American president to have been impeached by the House of Representatives?
"It seems like Republicans and Democrats are intractable," said Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and chairman of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. "They are both adhering to their own versions of reality, whether they're based in truth or not."
One thing that does unite the parties: voters' widespread interest in the presidential campaign, even at this early phase. A poll from The
"At the end of the day, people care about their pocket books and how they're doing and I think he can clearly point to life being better off," said Jason Chaffetz, a former Republican congressman from Utah. But he added, "Any precipitous drop would hurt the president."