The Democrats believe that the 2020 election is too important to be left to the voters.
Nancy Pelosi said in her statement calling on the House to draft articles of impeachment: "Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections."
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said on Meet the Press last weekend that Trump has to be impeached "For posing the considerable risk that he poses to the next election." Asked if he thinks the 2020 election will be on the up and up, he said: "I don't know. The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election."
The integrity of the election is so at risk that the U.S. Senate should keep the public from rendering a judgment on Donald Trump's first term, or deciding between him and, say, his nemesis Joe Biden.
The bottom line is that after tsk-tsking Trump for refusing to say in advance that he'd accept the outcome of the 2016 election, Democrats have steadfastly refused to truly accept the 2016 result and now are signaling they won't accept next year's election either, should they lose again.
They are rushing their impeachment, in part, because they know that as November 2020 approaches, it becomes steadily less tenable to portray the man who wants to run in an election as the threat to democracy and the people who want to stop him as its champions.
With every day that passes, the Democrats risk creating the perception that they themselves are a threat to the 2020 election.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-inquiry-2020-election-democrats-threaten-democracy/
Nancy Pelosi said in her statement calling on the House to draft articles of impeachment: "Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections."
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said on Meet the Press last weekend that Trump has to be impeached "For posing the considerable risk that he poses to the next election." Asked if he thinks the 2020 election will be on the up and up, he said: "I don't know. The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election."
The integrity of the election is so at risk that the U.S. Senate should keep the public from rendering a judgment on Donald Trump's first term, or deciding between him and, say, his nemesis Joe Biden.
The bottom line is that after tsk-tsking Trump for refusing to say in advance that he'd accept the outcome of the 2016 election, Democrats have steadfastly refused to truly accept the 2016 result and now are signaling they won't accept next year's election either, should they lose again.
They are rushing their impeachment, in part, because they know that as November 2020 approaches, it becomes steadily less tenable to portray the man who wants to run in an election as the threat to democracy and the people who want to stop him as its champions.
With every day that passes, the Democrats risk creating the perception that they themselves are a threat to the 2020 election.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/trump-impeachment-inquiry-2020-election-democrats-threaten-democracy/
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