They should of course continue to investigate the other crimes after this sham trial. It would have been good to do it before but that is the second best choice.
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USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term
Published 4:55 P.M. ET Dec 16, 2019
The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and the Senate a trial, showed Trump defeating former Vice President Joe Biden by 3 percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 5 points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by 8 points.
In hypothetical head-to-head contests, Trump also led South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg by 10 points and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg by 9.
Some quotes from the brilliant minds polled:
“Why waste the time going through all the stuff we’re going through now?” asked Jason Mayo, 42, a truck driver and reliable Republican voter from Greenville, North Carolina, who was among those surveyed.
He predicted Trump would defeat impeachment “hands down” and then win re-election. “My 401(k) is doing better than it’s ever done,” Mayo said. “That’s the truth.”
“I like Donald Trump’s attitude,” said Amy Locklear, 45, a retired teacher and Army veteran from Maxton, North Carolina. For many years a Democratic voter, she is now “leaning” toward the GOP. “If you say you’re going to do something, he’ll do it. He actually gets it done.”
Some more good poll respondent quotes in this article about a narrow majority opposing convicting Trump from USA Today:
“I feel like every person has their faults and failures,” says Amy Locklear, 45, a retired teacher and Army veteran from Maxton, North Carolina, who was called in the poll. It would be “stupid” to impeach Trump over Ukraine, she says in a follow-up interview. “Maybe look into it, but don’t impeach him for that.”
Hey, isn’t that the same “former Democrat” from the other article? Certainly sounds like someone who’s just “leaning Republican”.
Yotam Schachter, 34, a leadership development consultant from Boston, says Trump’s behavior warrants impeachment and conviction, but he worries about the impact on the nation, whatever happens next. “I see the impeachment as just the latest point of crisis in our polarized divisiveness,” he says, “and I haven’t seen anybody who is approaching the impeachment from a stance that can bring us together as a nation instead of further dividing us.”
Gotta just let him commit crimes so the nation can heal.
“I don’t think any American really watches C-SPAN, if we’re being honest with each other,” says Alex Foss, 28, a construction inspector and a Republican from Lakeland, Florida. Foss, who hasn’t been watching the impeachment proceedings, says Trump is right to call it a “witch hunt.”
We should have let the South secede.
That poll is not what you think it is:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GingerGibson/status/1206955738188451841
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I’m so happy that the votes of these assclowns from Florida and North Carolina are orders of magnitude more valuable than mine.
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Space force sounds like a stupid joke, but there used to be something of a consensus that space wasn’t supposed to be militarized. There’s no need for this at all and it’s going to seem normal before long. And it could well someday cause the end of human civilization. And most of the Democrats are voting how?
This dipshit has a law degree from Yale and taught Constituional law but doesn’t understand his role in impeachment.
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He understands (in an academic sense). He just doesn’t care.
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Remember the president can’t be charged with crimes so why would they charge him with a crime.
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Hate to break it to you but space exploration was militarized from the start. Space Force is going to be an expensive reshuffling of stuff the Air Force, Army, and Navy are already doing.
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GPS isn’t something that happened out of benevolence.
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Yeah at this point I agree. Just keep impeaching him. The pearl clutchers of civility were not going to vote against him anyways so the backlash is pretty much imaginary.
If the Fox News IV Drip was not feeding them that they would just find something else. That is something the democrats struggle with mightily. They tend to want to capitulate to reduce the noise and chatter but the reality is they just move on to the next thing. There is no point in capitulating anything.
And if anyone thinks they know someone who is a moderate or undecided voter with a good heart but who might be lost from too much ‘peachment talk they are wrong. Those people, no matter how near and dear are extremely low information voters who are 8x more likely not to vote than to vote Trump or anyone else.
The democrats really need to be pushing the message of republican congress abdicating their responsibilities to keep checks and balances working by not fulfilling their constitutional obligations on presidential oversight.
“Checks and balances” will at least trigger a tiny flicker in most people. Harp on the message that the republicans are destroying that foundational system.
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50% chance trump thinks VanDrew is Van Jones.
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While reading the USA TODAY article on their poll with Trump leading the democrats, I got a popover link to a story noting Fox News poll says the opposite and trump trails them all.