Mr. Trump would appear to be especially vulnerable, given that last time he lost the national popular vote and won several battleground states by razor-thin margins.
The answer speaks as much to what Democrats think of Trump voters-they don't trust them-as it does to what they think of Mr. Trump.
In this sense, the push for impeachment now may reflect a lack of Democratic confidence that they can persuade enough of the voters who went for Mr. Trump last time to give them the margins they need for victory come November 2020.
So why the rush? Maybe because in addition to concerns about 2020, there's an itch to punish Trump voters for what they did in 2016.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton famously expressed this contempt for Trump voters when she told wealthy donors at a Manhattan fundraiser "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."
Today few publicly call Trump voters "Deplorable." But the assumption remains.
Trump voters get this, while it doesn't seem to occur to Democrats that the president's supporters stick with him in part because they appreciate that the Trump hatred is directed at them as well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/impeaching-trump-voters-11570487810?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
The answer speaks as much to what Democrats think of Trump voters-they don't trust them-as it does to what they think of Mr. Trump.
In this sense, the push for impeachment now may reflect a lack of Democratic confidence that they can persuade enough of the voters who went for Mr. Trump last time to give them the margins they need for victory come November 2020.
So why the rush? Maybe because in addition to concerns about 2020, there's an itch to punish Trump voters for what they did in 2016.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton famously expressed this contempt for Trump voters when she told wealthy donors at a Manhattan fundraiser "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."
Today few publicly call Trump voters "Deplorable." But the assumption remains.
Trump voters get this, while it doesn't seem to occur to Democrats that the president's supporters stick with him in part because they appreciate that the Trump hatred is directed at them as well.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/impeaching-trump-voters-11570487810?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
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