Posted on 01/22/2020 4:46:32 PM PST by yoe
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may have successfully corralled his Republican colleagues Tuesday to defeat 11 efforts by Senate Democrats to subpoena key Trump administration witnesses and documents (and modify other rules) in the Senate impeachment trial. But these tactics have likely put Republican senators facing competitive races in an impossible bind ( two January polls show) that, in both battleground states and swing counties, more voters support Trump’s removal than approve of him. That dynamic could cost the Republicans control of the Senate after the 2020 elections — and, in that event, McConnell’s powerful post as majority leader will also be forfeited.
McConnell successfully tabled 10 of 11 Democrat-offered amendments by a party line vote of 53-47 (Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, sided with the Democrats on the eleventh), most of which sought to subpoena key Trump administration witnesses and documents to be evidence in the Senate trial. But the collateral damage could be grave.
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Trying to jam some R Senators id the only thing this has been about. Maybe in the very beginning there was an attempt to please some nutcases in the House.
It’s never been about Trump.
It could only work at all with the full and eager cooperation of the media. Which they provided.
schiff talking for hours gives a whole new meaning to drone attack
NBC news huh?
No thanks.
Forever serfdom and poverty is not a good platform to behold.
Let NBC continue to fluff Obama and Biden, the USA isn’t going
to.
You know this is a piece from ennbeecee...I hope...
BS article premise.
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Yup
Seriously? NBC News calls its opinion and essays section THINK! The typical dumbed down, puppet rank-and-file Democrat they appeal to is not capable of thought!
Faulty premises lesad to idiotic conclusions.
Gee let the House did NOT allow ANY Trump witnesses, etc etc and the House isn’t in danger for the Dems? Of course it is, people are sick of this nonsense..Republicans will take back the House in November and the Dems will once again scream RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA
Smelosi is in more danger than Mitch.
Nope fake polling to support a fake wishful thinking puff peice will not help them
Gallup, any adult poll, which swing Left 10 points of reality, show this claim about all this supposed support for impeachment a total fiction.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/271691/trump-approval-inches-support-impeachment-dips.aspx
NBC News? NBC = Nothing But Communism! Don’t you believe it!!
On Time's Mt. Rushmore style posed, soft tone cover she looked so noble and saintly, almost like Mother Theresa of Calcutta.
Or a Botox addicted, power mad crone who runs her own hard drug syndicate and house of prostitution. I'm not that far off on the second one.
“No matter what he does this would have been written.”
actually, it probably had ALREADY been written before any of this happened ...
Dude, don’t let yourself be panicked. The writers and the media in general are, at best, engaged in WISHFUL THINKING. They KNOW this impeachment is a farce as do the American people.
Well Said.
Next piece will be polls show 70% are crying out in desire for Hillary to run. Her time has come say pollsters.
Someday: Clinton Foundation/DNC bank uncovered as laundering source of funding for fake polls for past ten years. Pollsters doctored input to produce results say Feds. Honest pollsters shocked and outraged.
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Stopped reading at the author’s name - why post his drivel?
And why Kellyanne puts up with this POS is beyond me.
BS article premise.
No matter what he does this would have been written.
Exactly. Breathless propaganda here. Probably written before the trial even started. Collins and Gardner were in tough races regardless of the impeachment trial proceedings.
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