President Trump's ambassador to Ukraine turns on him. Trump says he's the victim of a lynching,

and the media prove their leftist bona fides once again. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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expressvpn.com slash Ben. As you'll learn on

today's show, it's kind of important. Okay, we have a lot of news to get to here today. You know,

you miss half a week and suddenly the world is new. And there are all sorts of brand new news

stories that you come back and you're really excited to talk about, or alternatively,

everything is terrible. And we have to talk about, or alternatively, everything is terrible.

And we have to talk about all the terrible things that happened in my absence.

So let us begin with impeachment gate.

2019.

We begin with the latest polling on impeachment gate.

According to Nate Cohen over at the New York Times, they did some polling on impeachment

in six swing states.

And what they found is that there are a lot of people who are sort of interested in impeaching President Trump, but not particularly interested in removing President Trump. In other words, they kind of want to censure his behavior. But by the same token, they don't actually want to see him removed from office. We're a year out from an election. According to Cohen at the New York Times, voters in the states likely as to decide the

2020 presidential election support the impeachment inquiry, House Democrats began last month, but a majority

still opposes impeaching President Trump and removing him from office. According to a New York

Times Sienna College survey, in the six closest states carried by the president in 2016, registered

voters support the impeachment inquiry by a five-point

margin, 50% to 45%. But the same voters oppose impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office,

53% to 43%. In other words, they are saying we have not yet seen enough evidence to suggest that

Trump has done something so wildly out-of-the-box criminal that he deserves to be removed from

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