As more details have emerged over the past week regarding President Trump's conversation with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House has confirmed that Trump asked the leader of a foreign country to investigate the man who, at the time, was considered the greatest obstacle to his reelection.
Conversely, many Americans have the same reaction to anything that helps the Republicans.
An even more powerful, but related, force may be lurking underneath - particularly for the growing plurality of Americans who don't identify with either political party.
In polling completed in December of last year by Caddell & Associates, 85% of Americans believe "The country is run by an alliance of incumbent politicians, media pundits, lobbyists and other powerful money interest groups for their own gain at the expense of the American people." To many Americans, government corruption has become the rule rather than the exception.
Yes, a president withholding $391 million in aid to a foreign country immediately before asking that nation's newly elected president to investigate his political opponent appears corrupt on its face.
Does anyone believe foreign interests would be steering millions of dollars to an American nonprofit if not to curry favor with Secretary Clinton?
It's why, in the Caddell poll, government ethics and corruption were the highest-scoring concern of the American people and two-thirds of respondents said if there were a place on the ballot where they could vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/08/divided_america_agrees_on_this_--_govt_corruption_is_rampant_141435.html
Conversely, many Americans have the same reaction to anything that helps the Republicans.
An even more powerful, but related, force may be lurking underneath - particularly for the growing plurality of Americans who don't identify with either political party.
In polling completed in December of last year by Caddell & Associates, 85% of Americans believe "The country is run by an alliance of incumbent politicians, media pundits, lobbyists and other powerful money interest groups for their own gain at the expense of the American people." To many Americans, government corruption has become the rule rather than the exception.
Yes, a president withholding $391 million in aid to a foreign country immediately before asking that nation's newly elected president to investigate his political opponent appears corrupt on its face.
Does anyone believe foreign interests would be steering millions of dollars to an American nonprofit if not to curry favor with Secretary Clinton?
It's why, in the Caddell poll, government ethics and corruption were the highest-scoring concern of the American people and two-thirds of respondents said if there were a place on the ballot where they could vote to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, including their own representative, they would.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/08/divided_america_agrees_on_this_--_govt_corruption_is_rampant_141435.html
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