I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The House Democrats either need to impeach Trump or shut up. That’s what I took away from the Mueller testimony.
If they can drive Trump’s approval ratings down far enough with impeachment hearings, even if they’re blocked from removing him from office by an uncooperative Republican-led Senate, they may manage to prevent his re-election, hold the House, and get control of the Senate in 2020. So far keeping the ball up in the air has not been successful in driving Trump’s approval down. If they can’t the Democratic candidate may lose in 2020, they may lose the House, and Republicans may hold onto the Senate.
The present intra-party bickering is as great as I can recall.
He either fears his fate too much, etc.
As I have said, the timeline for impeachment is just after the new year.
Sept, Oct (and prob most of Nov) will be consumed by the federal budget. Democratic incumbents will need an achievement for the primaries in the spring.
Something like 40% of the Democratic caucus voted for impeachment so the they are getting closer…
Jeffrey Toobin: “The impeachment effort has been a wall to wall failure.”
As they say, when you’ve lost CNN……….
CuriousOnlooker:
Just after the New Year would be disastrous for the Democrats. The effect of the impeachment hearings Newt Gingrich’s House conducted, couple with a strong economy, was to increase President Clinton’s approval rating. In addition it’s an election year. If the House completes its hearings in record time, it would incapacitate the Senate precisely the Senators who are campaigning for president need to campaign the most. That gives me the choices of resigning from the Senate, ignoring the trial, or not campaigning.
Impeachment is off the table unless something new comes out. As a purely political act, the only thing that really matters is the legitimacy of the effort and support for impeachment stands at less than 1/4 of the public.
Trump has a pretty solid floor around 40%, his fans will support him no matter what he says or does. While those 8 Benghazi investigations may have helped against Clinton, I dont think this works with the current GOP which is owned by Trump.
Steve
It’s not the general public’s support for impeachment that matters. It’s the support among voters in the democratic primary – where support is much higher. As evidence, something like 80 of the 100 members from the most liberal districts voted for impeachment 2 weeks ago.
Democratic congressman have to win the primary to worry about the general.
And House Democrats interests are not the same as Senate Democrats or the nominee.