You realize there’s actually nothing happening right now, right? We just came off a holiday, and everything ended last week for closed door depositions. All that happened yesterday were the releases of testimony of corroborators to what was going on that were in the ‘b’ tier informational bureaucracy type people. What I’m telling you as that most people don’t get their news from Apple News, which is notorious for trending a lot of stuff it shouldn’t similar to facebook. All of the right wing narratives being spun and that have been spun for nearly two months are falling flat. Compare this to what happened after Mueller testified when impeachment coverage disappeared from WaPo, NYT, and CNN. This is not remotely similar.
I’m telling you that msn.com trending, which is probably way more consumed than Apple News, has impeachment every single day as one of the top 5 trending stories. As I said above, no one has testified for about a week, yesterday was a holiday, and tomorrow is when things really start. Today is the last day for probably at least a month (outside of holidays and when impeachment hearings aren’t going on) that impeachment will not be the top trending story on every news site (all three major networks are pre-empting programming to cover this). Here are the top 20 trending stories right now on msn.com, and impeachment is not one of them (every Sunday it’s the top trending or third top trending, and you can probably guess why):
- Supreme Court DACA case
- Arctic blast
- Stephen Miller emails
- Disney+ launches
- Jimmy Carter update
- Sandy Hook ruling
- College paper apologizes
- Trump org. Scottish fine
- Bucs cut Hargreaves
- Trump economy speech
- Globes host named
- Gates testifies on wikileaks
- ‘MNF’ coin toss
- ‘MNF’ play-by-play criticized
- ‘DWTS’: Spicer out
- Kanye, Osteen team up
- Dean Foods bankruptcy
- Serratos in ‘Selena’
- Trump official inflated resume
- Waiter sued for spill
- Sanford exits race
- No more travel-sized toiletries?
Washington Post has impeachment front and center, and you would not have found a single article related to impeachment on there two months ago. New York Times has impeachment down a little bit, which is typical, but you would have found nothing on their site about it two months ago. All of the top stories on CNN are about impeachment or tangentially related to it. The top two news stories on Yahoo are impeachment related. There are lots of polls out about impeachment right now. You want some data from those? I got that too:
YouGov (Nov 9-11):
Do you approve or disapprove of Congressional Democrats starting an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump?
Overall: 53% Yes, 47% No
Dems: 85% Yes, 15% No
GOP: 17% Yes, 83% No
Independents: 47% Yes, 53% No
Morning Consult (Nov 1-3):
As you may know, the Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach the president. Once a president is impeached by the House of Representatives, the Senate has the sole power to legally try the president and, if convicted, remove the president from office. Would you support or oppose each of the following? The Senate removing President Trump from office. Strongly support, Somewhat support, Somewhat oppose, Strongly oppose
Overall: 47% Yes, 43% No
Dems: 80% Yes, 11% No
GOP: 12% Yes, 83% No
Independents: 44% Yes, 38% No
Morning Consult (Nov 1-3):
Do you support or oppose the current impeachment inquiry into President Trump?
Overall: 49% Yes, 43% No
Dems: 81% Yes, 12% No
GOP: 13% Yes, 82% No
Independents: 48% Yes, 38% No
Global Strategy Group (Nov 1-5):
Do you support or oppose Congress impeaching President Trump?
Overall: 52% Yes, 41% No
Dems: 84% Yes, 10% No
GOP: 14% Yes, 81% No
Independents: 51% Yes, 31% No
Monmouth University (Oct 30-Nov 3):
Do you think it is a good idea or bad idea for the House of Representatives to conduct an impeachment inquiry into President Trump that may or may not lead to impeachment?
Overall: 51% Yes, 44% No
Dems: 85% Yes, 10% No
GOP: 10% Yes, 85% No
Independents: 54% Yes, 41% No
Here’s the only outlier, and it’s related to impeach/remove from Monmouth (Oct 30-Nov 3):
Do you think President Trump should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency, or not?
Overall: 44% Yes, 51% No
GOP: 8% Yes, 92% No
Dems: 85% Yes, 12% No
Independents: 42% Yes, 51% No
Here’s a little bit of history for you about where Nixon stood later than this point from The New Republic:
When Gallup first started tracking opinion on impeachment shortly after the televised Watergate hearings began in June of 1973, only 19 percent of respondents believed the president should be removed from office; by August of the following year, when Nixon announced his resignation, that number had jumped to nearly 60 percent.