'Best Impeachment Ever:' Trump Supporters Unfazed by Historic Vote
December 19, 2019
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1:24Trump Attacks Democrats After Becoming 3rd U.S. President to Be Impeached
1:12Now Playing'Best Impeachment Ever:' Trump Supporters Unfazed by Historic Vote
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as posted by the channelSupporters of President Donald Trump say they were unfazed by the House's historic vote to impeach.
Donald Trump will be the first impeached U.S. president to seek re-election in more than 150 years, and he’s betting that voters in key swing states will view his rebuke at the hands of House Democrats as a rallying cry.
Recent national polls have shown weakening support for Trump’s removal from office, and in states including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, data and interviews suggest the picture is even brighter for the incumbent president.
The House adopted two articles of impeachment almost entirely along partisan lines, setting up a Senate trial for early next year. There’s little sign Trump will be convicted in the Republican-controlled chamber. More important for the president is convincing voters that they should share his anger at a first term pockmarked by what he calls partisan investigations and return him to the White House in 2020.
The president fired off dozens of tweets and retweets of fellow Republicans early Thursday, blasting the impeachment and attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi for suggesting that she would refrain from sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until she secured changes in the rules for the trial.
In a campaign rally late Wednesday as the House voted to impeach him, Trump previewed how he’ll handle his impeachment in the coming months. He spent more than two hours extolling his administration’s achievements and said Democrats showed “deep hatred and disdain for the American voter” and would pay for it in the election.
“This lawless, partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democratic party,” Trump told supporters in Battle Creek, Michigan, a Republican stronghold that helped him win the traditionally Democratic state in 2016.
Trump also enjoys a receptive audience across swaths of Wisconsin. Dawn Anderson, 60, said that she and her husband are independents who voted for Trump in 2016 and can’t wait to do it again next year.
“I’m mad,” she said in an interview outside a Woodman’s Markets grocery store in Kenosha. “He shouldn’t have to defend himself the way he is.”
About 52% of registered Wisconsin voters oppose Trump’s impeachment and removal from office, according to a Marquette University Law School poll conducted between Dec. 3 and Dec. 8. Forty percent are supportive.
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