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Moderate Democrats Impeachment Strategy Will BACKFIRE, They Haven't Accounted For 'Bernie Or Bust'

Tim Pool Daily News

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Moderate Democrats Impeachment Strategy Will BACKFIRE, They Haven't Accounted For 'Bernie Or Bust.' In a leaked memo from Axios we can see that Democrats are pushing Moderates toward support for impeachment due to national polls showing people are more inclined to support a pro impeachment inquiry candidate over someone who isn't.While the memo does take the republican polls into consideration they seem to have missed one big flaw, the far left and Bernie or bust voters.They are hoping that policy issues will take a back seat to partisanship in 2020 but this is a mistake in my opinion. The Democrats are not unified and far left voters do not want to support moderates.Far left democrats frequently refer to moderates as "republicans" and refuse to vote. In fact Bernie Or Bust played a huge roll in Trump winning in 2016. In fact some Bernie voters protested the Democrats by actually voting FOR Trump as a kind of punishment.Moderates need to focus on unity and bringing people together instead of playing into the 'orange man bad' narrative.While negative partisanship is a huge factor for Democrat voters, should they nominate a moderate it won't matter. The Far left sees the Moderates as entirely separate already. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Over the past couple of weeks, moderate Democrats have faced backlash and protest over their

0:04.5

support for impeaching Donald Trump. Seems that many people were expecting a focus on policy

0:09.2

issues and bridging the divide not making the divide worse. But now we have a word of encouragement

0:14.8

from Democrats. Because according to an internal polling memo, they're telling moderate

0:18.8

Democrats they are more likely to get a vote if they support impeachment than if they don't.

0:24.3

But I believe this is a huge mistake. First, we can't necessarily just go off this one memo.

0:30.1

Because we have a memo from the Republicans saying exactly the opposite. But there is still a good

0:35.6

reason to believe the Democrats are on the right side of this. And that's negative partisanship.

0:40.6

While the Republican polls say that voters are tired of the obsession with Trump,

0:45.3

Democrats say that no people want Trump to be impeached. And according to Pew, policies

0:51.0

took a backseat to partisanship, which means you will encourage more voters to support you

0:55.9

by talking about how the other side is bad as opposed to actually addressing policy issues.

1:01.7

But I have a couple of words to explain why this is a mistake and why it will likely backfire.

1:08.1

Bernie or Bust, the far left and the moderate Democrats are not united as one party.

1:14.3

So while they may think it makes more sense to oppose Trump and talk about how the

1:19.1

orange man is bad, it may be more likely that people are looking for policy issues

1:23.9

because the far left is not going to support a moderate.

1:27.8

Well, let's read the news and get started and we'll break this down starting with the memo.

1:31.7

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