Two-term mayor of San Francisco, renowned speaker of the California Assembly, and widely regarded as the most influential African American politician of the late twentieth century, Willie Brown wrote:

If the goal was to damage President Trump by formalizing the impeachment inquiry, it’s Mission Unaccomplished for House Democrats.

If anything, the vote solidified Trump’s hold on power. There were zero GOP defections, meaning we have zero drama heading into the public phase of impeachment. Everyone is pretty much in the same lanes they’ve been in since the Russian-collusion investigation, the obstruction of justice investigation and every other investigation.

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Unfortunately for the Democrats, that gives people little reason to be glued to their screens when House committees take public testimony. The basic story — Trump pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into Democrats that would help Trump — is out there already. People know how they feel about it, and if you believe the polls, they’re pretty evenly split on whether the president deserves to be thrown out of office.

The only potential drama before last week’s vote was whether there might be any movement, whether any Republicans would see it Democrats’ way.

Looks like they don’t.

And when it gets to the Senate, it will play out just the same way. Someone like Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah may break GOP ranks, but no one thinks 20 Republicans, the bare minimum who would have to defect to convict Trump, would actually do so.

So the Democrats will spend the next few precious months acting out a pretend cliffhanger to which everyone actually knows the script and the ending. No plot twists in sight. Remember health care, the issue that won so many elections for Democrats in 2018? You might, but they don’t seem to.

Pollsters: Trump expanding base with ‘economically vulnerable’ voters, impeachment critics

>By Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner, November 04, 2019:

So why is President Trump and the Trump-Pence campaign feeling confident of a 2020 reelection?

Because, according to pollsters, insiders, and election experts, Trump is expanding his base of Republican and conservative supporters to include more independents and minorities and attracting voters who are angry at Washington but who skipped the 2016 election.

“Everybody is doing incredibly well. The poll numbers are looking great, and the economy is doing wonderfully, and we’re executing our agenda successfully to bring the change that people voted for, and we are supremely confident,” said senior White House policy adviser Stephen Miller.

At a time when the conventional wisdom in Washington, especially among Democrats, is that Trump is headed toward an easy and well-earned defeat in 2020, a collection of polls and contrarian views from critics who took Trump seriously early in the 2016 election suggest that he is in a good position.

Zogby Analytics pollster Jonathan Zogby told us that Trump is making solid inroads with new voters who feel good about the economy, including those in urban areas and the poor, traditionally part of the Democratic base.

“An interesting area where Trump has caught steam is among economically vulnerable groups. We categorize these groups as: lost a job, at a job that pays less, afraid of losing a job, and gone without food for 24 hours,” said Zogby.

What’s more, his polling has found weak enthusiasm for the 2020 Democratic candidates, and that could open the door for Trump to woo minorities.

“Trump could skim support of young, Hispanic, and women voters in addition to new groups he has appealed to,” said Zogby.

The latest essential reading piece from Tom Edsall opens like this:

“President Trump is unpopular, but that doesn’t mean defeating him is going to be easy.”https://t.co/J5kaUQ9J4T

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) November 1, 2019

In the just-released bookHow to Beat Trump by political journalist Mark Halperin, who took Trump seriously when few did in 2016, Democratic consultant Pete Giangreco said that there is a “sleeper cell” of angry voters who didn’t show up at the polls last time that the president is poised to add.

“I think Trump can run up the score in rural areas even bigger than he did,” he told Halperin, who is making a return to journalism after apologizing for sexual misconduct when he worked at ABC News in the 2000s.

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Ban Islam

4 years ago

What kind of BS is this? This is treasonous to try to impeach a president for no reason. They tried and failed with the fake Russia scandal to bring down Trump, now they’re abusing their legal authority to remove him. Why hasn’t anyone been jailed for spreading the lies/misinformation about Trump?

I’m sure the Muslims are laughing at the Democrats for doing their bidding. The only thing that threatens Islam is a strong govt that won’t bow to Muslims, which is why they want to remove Republicans from power. When you put traitors and cowards in power you get conquered, like what is happening in the mideast, Africa and some European nations.

Hopefully the American people see through this sham and keep voting for strong leaders. I like Trump except on military matters, I feel he’s even weaker than some Democrats. We need a leader who’s not afraid to exterminate all Islamic terrorism off the face of the Earth, including those who work non-violently to destroy us from within.

So far that hasn’t happened unfortunately, the enemy is still breathing, working on getting WMDs, plotting terrorism on our soil. Trump has really dropped the ball there and broken his promise. So he needs to be replaced with someone stronger, like a John Bolton.

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  Ban Islam

All John Bolton wanted was more wars. No thanks. I prefer destroying their economy rather than using our military to fight the wars of others and then rebuilding their countries at our expense and greeting coffins of our Vets and destroying lives through injuries. These people are NOT worth our blood.

I’d bet edited transcripts will be released slowly building up to the ultimate liars. When all you had to do was READ THE TRANSCRIPT! The IG that allowed this should be FIRED but that would not be viewed as OBSTRUCTION. Anything Trump or others do to DEFEND Trump in any form will be OBSTRUCTION. They tired this too under the Mueller farce. These people coming forward are not involved first hand. It’s based on Trump hatred, gossip and hearsay which wouldn’t be admissible in a normal court case let alone and impeachment – BUT Pelosi changed the rules to ALLOW that because they have nothing.

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TomSJr

4 years ago

The Dems have sealed their fate as losers for the next 4 years!

TRUMP/PENCE 2020
PENCE/TRUMP 2024

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felix1999

4 years ago

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ed

4 years ago

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That’s GREAT, felix !!!!

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felix1999

4 years ago

Here is the transcript. Nothing improper or impeachable there. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. won by promising to clean up the corruption. The U.S. has an agreement with the Ukraine and other countries to work together on crime. Prior to the call, that is what the U.S. and the Ukraine were doing.

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Achmed Mohandjob

4 years ago

“An interesting area where Trump has caught steam is among economically vulnerable groups. We categorize these groups as: lost a job, at a job that pays less, afraid of losing a job, and gone without food for 24 hours,”
I frequently go on three day fasts (72 hours) and do a seven day fast, twice a year.
So, I guess that I am “economically vulnerable”.

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patd

4 years ago

Translation: Real Americans are turning to TRUMP!!!!!!

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Worsethanitlooks

4 years ago

Hard to believe that Blacks and Hispanics are not crazy about an overbearing commie Jew and a woman who didn’t think being white was enough of an advantage, she decided to claim she was an American Indian.

If either of these self-serving phonies becomes President, I’m moving to Afghanistan. Don’t try to stop me.

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Worsethanitlooks

4 years ago

Hard to believe that Blacks and Hispanics are not crazy about an overbearing commie Jew and a woman who didn’t think being white was enough of an advantage, she decided to claim she was an American Indian.

If either of these self-serving phonies becomes President, I’m moving to Afghanistan. Don’t try to stop me.

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Drew the Infidel

4 years ago

There is a quote which best sums up commiecrat Schiff and his like-minded gaggle:

“A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, scrapes with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.” — Proverbs 6:12-15

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Cauc-Asian Patriot

4 years ago

NOTHING LIKE BEING WHACKED BY FEMINAZIS ON SHE SAID WHAT SHE DIDN’T SAY YEARS LATER ABOUT SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS TO HELP A LEFTIST LIKE HALPERIN GET SOME REALISTIC PERSPECTIVE! THE TRANSCRIPT READS LIKE THE REST OF THE DEM-WIT ALLEGATIONS IN NOT SAYING ANYTHING SUBSTANTIVE TO CONVICT PRES TRUMP BUT THE SECRET TO UNDERSTANDING THE DEM-WITS IS EASY: “IF YOU’RE RIGHT, YOU’RE GUILTY BECAUSE WE SAY SO” IS THEIR MOTTO!

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Cauc-Asian Patriot

4 years ago

WILLIE BROWN IS A SMART, LEFTIST TACTICIAN WHO ACTUALLY WON SOME REAL ELECTIONS BUT NOTICE THAT THE DEM-WITS AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION TO EVEN HIM? I’M BEGINNING TO BE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION, FOLKS!

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LeslieFish

4 years ago

Impeach the president? Why stop there? I can think of plenty of politicians who should be impeached, starting with AOC and her Jew-hating Squad. It would be easy to dig up *real, verifiable* dirt on any of them, and then hire some advertizing company to make it go viral on the internet, and some media-flack to push it all over TV. Bring them all down!

…Did I mention that I’m an ideological Anarchist?

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LeslieFish

4 years ago

Impeach the president? Why stop there? I can think of plenty of politicians who should be impeached, starting with AOC and her Jew-hating Squad. It would be easy to dig up *real, verifiable* dirt on any of them, and then hire some advertizing company to make it go viral on the internet, and some media-flack to push it all over TV. Bring them all down!

…Did I mention that I’m an ideological Anarchist?

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DVader

4 years ago

You had the same kind of hallucination just before the Blue Wave in the 2018 election.

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