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Republicans see impeachment backfiring. Democrats fear they may be right
Reuters ^

Posted on 09/26/2019 9:10:37 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Reuters) - Having his morning coffee and cigarette outside a Starbucks in one of the most politically contested counties in the United States, Richard Sibilla recoils at the memory of President Donald Trump's election.

But impeach him now? Sibilla can see little upside.

"After this he has a much better chance of winning another election, as scary as that sounds," said Sibilla, 39, a resident of Pinellas County, Florida, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. "It's not even worth following because it's all going to help him."

Among the public, interviews with more than 60 voters across four of the most important counties in the 2020 election showed Republicans largely confident the impeachment process will backfire and Trump will win re-election. Democrats, on the other hand, are worried they may be right.

Marc Devlin, a 48-year-old consultant from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, said he expects the inquiry to "incense" supporters of the president. "This is my fear, that it will actually add some flame to his fire with his base," he said. "I just fear 'party over country.'"

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Pennsylvania
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To: COBOL2Java

Shouldn’t Wily end up lying on that boulder he tossed?


41 posted on 09/27/2019 4:52:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bigtigermike

Oops. Nancy stepped in it bigly when the Starbucks crowd is against it.


42 posted on 09/27/2019 4:55:45 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Betty Jane

It sickens me to know there are still white men out there who vote Democrat. They still vote for the party that despises everything about them. Maybe they are transvestites? There’s definitely something wrong with them.


43 posted on 09/27/2019 6:05:33 AM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: Bigtigermike

“Marc Devlin, a 48-year-old consultant from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, said he expects the inquiry to “incense” supporters of the president. “This is my fear, that it will actually add some flame to his fire with his base,” he said. “I just fear ‘party over country.’” Imagine, this guy is 48 years old and still too stupid to see that this is all made up and Trump has done a great amoun of good for a great amount of real Americans. “Party over country!” what a schmuck.


44 posted on 09/27/2019 6:24:51 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: bgill
Starbucks crowd is against it.

Is there any proof to this statement?

45 posted on 09/27/2019 6:34:01 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: bgill

Sorry, just re-read the top of the article again, I see it there.


46 posted on 09/27/2019 6:37:16 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Adam schiff is a bad person.
47 posted on 09/27/2019 6:38:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why? ..They know they cannot win honestly at the ballot box... Freeper EagleUSA)
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To: HKMk23
The Senate could essentially dismiss the matter with no trial at all, and no avenue of appeal, either.

The Senate doesn't have the authority under the Constitution to stop an impeachment trial. Their only role in the matter is to vote guilty or not guilty on the Articles of Impeachment after a trial. The person with the authority to dismiss the Articles without a trial is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who would be the presiding judge in an impeachment trial.

48 posted on 09/27/2019 6:44:16 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: phoneman08

Chief Justice Roberts will preside. It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict.

Roberts is likely compromised. The fireworks may begin with a disclosure of that bit prior to the trial.

Interesting that Scalia would have been Chief. Him being murdered paved the way a bit for a Roberts court.

Could 2/3 convict? Anything is possible. However, there would be a trial. Period. That’s in the Constitution. The articles are referred to the Senate. Senate is the jury. Roberts is the judge.

Where it will get interesting is in the TELEVISING of the proceedings. ‘National Security’ is going to be invoked any time anything of any exculpatory value is presented and the protection will be deemed as outweighing the merits of public access to the proceedings.

That last bit is where it gets potentially incendiary. Conviction in secret, where he gets removed from office and we’re told, ‘Trust us.’


49 posted on 09/27/2019 7:09:47 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Bigtigermike

They say it’s going to enrage his supporters because they KNOW it’s wrong and how they would feel if the roles were reversed


50 posted on 09/27/2019 7:21:54 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: Bigtigermike
"I just fear 'party over country.'"

Well, dude, your party apparently left the country quite some time ago.


51 posted on 09/27/2019 7:22:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Pennsylvania Demwit said he feared party over country, what a mealy-mouthed stupid hypocrite SOB.

52 posted on 09/27/2019 7:32:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bigtigermike

They are still trying to stop Trump’s Ukraine investigation.


53 posted on 09/27/2019 7:38:29 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Gumdrop

That’s why I left the Democrat Party. Common sense makes no sense to a leftist. I wanted to keep my brain from turning into mush!


54 posted on 09/27/2019 7:48:45 AM PDT by dowcaet
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WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

55 posted on 09/27/2019 7:49:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Dave W

” I live in a very liberal area that carries the whole state and I don’t know one voter switching from Hillary to Trump in 2020.”

Me too but I know a long time Democrat activist who did a “Walk Away” video.
She started calling me on topics asking me if I saw the same thing?

Typically, I’d say, of course. She had her eyes opened to reality. She said when we used to talk she thought I was “crazy” and she didn’t understand.

Because to her, the language I spoke was all but foreign to her. She’s an exception but she’s not alone. I hear others are quietly flipping over too. You don’t see people flipping to the Rats.

They maintain their base of loyalists who don’t care how dirty or illegal they act.
But others and independents will not be so easily misled.


56 posted on 09/27/2019 7:55:59 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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“I just fear ‘party over country.”

The democrat putsch continues.


57 posted on 09/27/2019 8:00:07 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Elsie

And why did the board not immediately follow Wiley through the hole? Things the average democrat would not notice.


58 posted on 09/27/2019 8:01:50 AM PDT by Amish with an attitude
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To: Bigtigermike

Be careful what you wish for! In their efforts to undermine a sitting, duly elected president they have shot themselves in the foot.Grab the popcorn...


59 posted on 09/27/2019 9:28:45 AM PDT by MidniteRyder
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To: Rdct29

Faggots, no doubt.


60 posted on 09/27/2019 10:04:37 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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