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Impeachment Bounce – Trump attacks backfire on his political foes (critical polling up +7)
Fox News ^ | 6 hours ago | Adam Goodman

Posted on 12/24/2019 9:25:08 AM PST by powermill

The nearly impossible has now become a near certainty.

After weeks of choreographed indignation by Democratic leaders in Congress and “witnesses” offering no proof of impeachable wrongdoing; despite headlines and columnists screaming for his immediate ouster; and notwithstanding 24/7 attacks from media grumps still sore about 2016

President Trump is not only back in the game, but on his game.

impeachment is starting to give the president’s poll numbers a shot of political adrenalin … and his detractors a fresh jolt of reality.

Recent polling from Fox News confirms that the president’s job approval ratings (often a leading indicator of a candidate’s fate) have swung seven points to the good over the past six weeks. The thirst for impeachment has ebbed.

Most importantly, for those looking for what may lie ahead, the president not only bests every Democratic contender in the most recent national USA Today/Suffolk University poll (plus-3 over Biden, plus-5 over Sanders, plus-10 vs. Buttigieg) but in the all-important “battleground states.” The Optimus poll last week showed the president had taken a lead in a survey of three of these states (Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), and that voters in all three now oppose the president’s impeachment and removal. This is political gold for President Trump because if he carries most or all of the battlegrounds (including Florida, Arizona, Iowa and Colorado), he will win again.

Going away.

Pollsters normally refer to this phenomenon as the “bounce,” an upward surge in a candidate or officeholder's poll numbers traceable to a special event like a State of the Union speech or a historic triumph like Operation Desert Storm.

Yet this emerging “bounce” isn’t emanating from a ticker-tape parade for a world champion, or a significant breakthrough for mankind, but from the consensus that we’ve simply had it with Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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Merry Christmas everyone!
1 posted on 12/24/2019 9:25:08 AM PST by powermill
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To: powermill

The Democrats have impeached.
They will not remove.

What have they got left? They’ve fired their last bullet.

Time to buy more popcorn.


2 posted on 12/24/2019 9:26:27 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: powermill

Swing and a miss, Nancy.


3 posted on 12/24/2019 9:26:45 AM PST by shelterguy
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Thanks! I’m sure that the “concerned” are deeply saddened at this news.


4 posted on 12/24/2019 9:27:06 AM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: powermill

And the leftwing base that thought Trump was removed will be angry at the Democrats.


5 posted on 12/24/2019 9:27:36 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: shelterguy

I think the point is to deflect from the crimes the Rats committed, and it’s “Mission Accomplished”


6 posted on 12/24/2019 9:28:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Nobody like bullies.


7 posted on 12/24/2019 9:28:52 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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im with ya there. I think its defelection from the upcoming minority reports on Hussein and fisa abuse


8 posted on 12/24/2019 9:29:41 AM PST by powermill
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“Swing and a miss, Nancy.”

They know it too. I spoke to a media colleague and we both agreed the Dems are not happy. They were perfectly happy weeks ago to see a rigged, fabricated Deep State process take out President Trump.

Now, not so much.

Some even won’t speak a word about it, literally. They know it’s a loser after the fact.

That’s a shame. (Cue Seinfeld and the popcorn gif.)


9 posted on 12/24/2019 9:31:05 AM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: TexasGurl24

10 posted on 12/24/2019 9:31:16 AM PST by powermill
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Thanks! I’m sure that the “concerned” are deeply saddened at this news.

Maybe she has been praying every day, just to the debbil.

11 posted on 12/24/2019 9:31:51 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Proof? What is this unobtainium of which you speak? Merry Christmas.


12 posted on 12/24/2019 9:32:55 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Image result for merry impeachmas meme

13 posted on 12/24/2019 9:34:07 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (2/3 of all impeached presidents were impeached because they pissed off Hillary)
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To: powermill

if she throws a fit, they must acquit


14 posted on 12/24/2019 9:35:28 AM PST by Bob434
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To: dfwgator

Yes. Deflection.


15 posted on 12/24/2019 9:35:31 AM PST by bgill
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To: ClearCase_guy
What have they got left? They’ve fired their last bullet.

Conservatives and Patriots have various boxes mentioned here and elsewhere often: soapbox, ballot box, jury box and ammo box.

The leftists don't have as many boxes available to them. I can think of two, maybe there are others... Jack in the Box and the Surprise Witness Box.


16 posted on 12/24/2019 9:36:05 AM PST by C210N
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All roads lead through bo hussein and the fisa courts


17 posted on 12/24/2019 9:36:14 AM PST by powermill
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And this is FNC. FNC polling is the worst, the absolute worst. You can add at least 5 points to the good when you see their polls.


18 posted on 12/24/2019 9:38:15 AM PST by gibsonguy
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but from the consensus that we’ve simply had it with Washington.


otherwise correctly identified as the swamp.


19 posted on 12/24/2019 9:38:18 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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“”””I think the point is to deflect from the crimes the Rats committed, and it’s “Mission Accomplished””””””

To an extent. They needed a story to knock Horowitz out of the limelight but this only delayed the inevitable and they can not use the threat of impeachment again.

They tried a million ORANGE MAN BAD stories, they tried Mueller, they tried impeachment. What could they use next that would have any impact at all?


20 posted on 12/24/2019 9:39:28 AM PST by shelterguy
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