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Impeachment BACKFIRE Giving Trump Swing State Advantage, 2020 Democrats BACK AWAY From Impeachment

Tim Pool Daily News

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Impeachment BACKFIRE Giving Trump Swing State Advantage, 2020 Democrats BACK AWAY From Impeachment. A new analyses by The Washington post shows that in key election states impeachment is unfavorable with the majority opposing it.In response Trump, his allies, and the GOP have launched a new ad blitz is key states specifically over impeachment. Meanwhile 2020 Democrats are doing their best to distance themselves from impeachment saying they need to focus on issues Americans care about.Impeachment is an overall disaster for Democrats and it seems like the House Democrats may be sabotaging the 2020 Democratic contenders by lumping them into an unwinnable battle.Not only is impeachment bad for Democrats in swing districts but its given Trump the ability to fight along tribal lines and ignoring kitchen table issues while blaming Democrats for why he isn't campaigning specifically on them.Meanwhile Democrats have to justify why they aren't campaigning on the issues and why they keep trying to investigate the president. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Since the beginning of November, numerous polls have come out showing that opposition to

0:05.4

impeachment was skyrocketing among independents and you've probably heard me say a million times.

0:11.1

But the more important poll is how this will play in swing states or key election states.

0:18.5

And now we know impeaching Trump is unpopular in key election states.

0:23.9

You know what's really, really funny about impeachment?

0:27.1

The 2020 Democrats are doing their best to downplay impeachment.

0:32.3

And I'm not exaggerating.

0:33.9

In this story from NBC News, Democrats sing different tunes on impeachment as GOP closes ranks.

0:40.3

All of these democratic contenders are trying to make sure they actually speak to Americans

0:44.9

about issues they would want to vote for.

0:47.4

So it seems to me that the Democrats in the House are actually sabotaging their 2020

0:54.0

Democratic counterparts.

0:55.7

All the while, the media is doing something else.

0:58.8

It may be one of the most annoying things I've ever seen.

1:02.2

But there is a relentless attempt to straw man the Ukraine argument to make Trump look bad and

1:08.8

rewrite history.

1:11.0

Politico has now put out two stories essentially discrediting its own reporting and what appears

1:16.9

to be a desperate bid to erase the news they published that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.

1:25.6

But what they're doing now, many of these pundits and left wing individuals are conflating Russian

1:31.6

collusion and hacking with Ukraine meddling and they're very, very different.

1:36.4

The reality is Russia did meddle in our election.

1:39.2

Russia did engage in a server hack.

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