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发帖数: 5818 | 1 Dems’ doomsday scenario: Could anxious moderates scuttle impeachment push?
With impeachment proceedings moving swiftly after a spree of dramatic
hearings, the expectation that the House will vote to impeach President
Trump and trigger a Senate trial has been treated as a fait accompli -- but
the president's allies still see a scenario, however remote, wherein
congressional Democrats could fall short.
As with so many debates in Washington, it could all come down to the
moderates.
A senior administration official claimed Friday, after the apparent
conclusion of House Intelligence Committee hearings, that it's "not clear
the House is going to impeach."
This, despite House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,
declaring the "evidence of Trump's misconduct is already overwhelming" --
and many Democrats playing up testimony that linked top officials to a
pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and asserted an Oval
Office meeting, and possibly aid, were used as leverage.
Yet as with the Russia investigation, while the hearings have been covered
extensively -- featuring analysis replete with phrases such as “game over”
and “the walls are closing in” -- the polling suggests the needle isn’t
moving much in the court of public opinion.
Among critical independents, there are troubling signs for impeachment
backers. Fifty percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist poll
conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from
office, with just 42 percent backing such a move. That’s a slight dip in
support compared with the previous NPR/PBS/Marist poll – conducted the
first week in October – when support stood at 45 percent.
While that poll was conducted before last week’s high-profile testimony, it
raises the possibility that the hearings in Washington are not resonating
so much outside the Beltway. | c*******e
发帖数: 5818 | 2 Dems’ doomsday scenario: Could anxious moderates scuttle impeachment push?
With impeachment proceedings moving swiftly after a spree of dramatic
hearings, the expectation that the House will vote to impeach President
Trump and trigger a Senate trial has been treated as a fait accompli -- but
the president's allies still see a scenario, however remote, wherein
congressional Democrats could fall short.
As with so many debates in Washington, it could all come down to the
moderates.
A senior administration official claimed Friday, after the apparent
conclusion of House Intelligence Committee hearings, that it's "not clear
the House is going to impeach."
This, despite House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,
declaring the "evidence of Trump's misconduct is already overwhelming" --
and many Democrats playing up testimony that linked top officials to a
pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and asserted an Oval
Office meeting, and possibly aid, were used as leverage.
Yet as with the Russia investigation, while the hearings have been covered
extensively -- featuring analysis replete with phrases such as “game over”
and “the walls are closing in” -- the polling suggests the needle isn’t
moving much in the court of public opinion.
Among critical independents, there are troubling signs for impeachment
backers. Fifty percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist poll
conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from
office, with just 42 percent backing such a move. That’s a slight dip in
support compared with the previous NPR/PBS/Marist poll – conducted the
first week in October – when support stood at 45 percent.
While that poll was conducted before last week’s high-profile testimony, it
raises the possibility that the hearings in Washington are not resonating
so much outside the Beltway. |
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