Will Ds NOT Impeaching tRump Negatively Impact Voters voting for D candidates in 2020?
Why is this question not being asked?
Ds won big in 2018 because voters clearly, CLEARLY wanted to hold tRump accountable. Yes, they ran on healthcare as well, but Ds always run on a multi-faceted platform.
Back in November, fully 40% of voters - VOTERS - polled by The Hill wanted the Ds to impeach tRump. 40%! That was well before the Mueller Report was issued. Since the Report came out, support for tRump is slipping. I predict it will continue to slip dramatically as the House gets on with its hearings, and as investigations of tRump by agencies outside of DC move forward.
Ds cannot take for granted that voters who voted D in 2018 will show up at the polls in 2020 - let alone vote D - if the perception is that Ds did not come through and exert the power that was entrusted to them by the electorate to provide a check on tRump. It will show spinelessness and a disregard for the clear intent of the electorate if Ds fail to move forward on impeachment. When will Ds ever get it that the reason people continue to vote for Rs over Ds is because there is a perception out there that Rs "do what they said they would do" if elected, while Ds do not. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. It's the perception of what is true that works against us.
The country is with the Ds on this, not with tRump. It's time to write off the 37% of treasonous enablers that love tRump and to concentrate on delivering what the voters asked for, come hell or high water.
BTW - what if Ds don't "defeat tRump at the ballot box in 2020?" What if Rs retake then House in 2020, due in large part because voters disappointed with nonaction on the part of the Ds stay home? What then?
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