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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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To: powermill

The Democrats went for a political Hail Mary hoping impeachment would turn Trump’s base against him. Instead, it strengthened his already tight bond with his voters even more, and it enraged independents plus some “enlightened” Democrats. The more this fake impeachment rolls on the worse it will get for the RATS!


41 posted on 12/24/2019 10:22:33 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: romanesq

In her weakly press conference on Thursday nutty nancy would not even use the word “impeachment” in her prattling. I thought that was interesting.


42 posted on 12/24/2019 10:24:25 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Vote like our Nation depends on it - because it does!

I agree, but here's the problem, to us this means don't stay home on election day and work to convince folks to vote for Trump.

To liberals this means to vote 10 times rather than their usual six.

Vote fraud is what worries me.

43 posted on 12/24/2019 10:26:24 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ClearCase_guy
They’ve fired their last bullet.

They shot at Trump and hit Biden.

44 posted on 12/24/2019 10:29:04 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: dowcaet
Daily the DEMON-RATs provide a sort of pathetic entertainment as they lie, obfuscate, distort and omit reality. What a bunch of angry, discombobulated, feckless, pathetic poltroons. They deserve only scorn, shunning and ridicule 24/7. More popcorn!!! Merry Christmas!
45 posted on 12/24/2019 10:29:50 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: powermill

A powerful state of the union address laced with some humor and a little humility (if possible) could be the start of something big for The Donald. And Merry Christmas to you.


46 posted on 12/24/2019 10:30:59 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: powermill
Democrats running on empty. 😆
47 posted on 12/24/2019 10:34:05 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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

While I commend your optimistic outlook, FRiend Case, let me offer a quick answer:

VOTE FRAUD!

Still, I will grant you, the RATs might not be so obsessed with impeachment if they had sufficient confidence in their vote fraud machine. They’re certainly acting desperate — as if they have no fallback position.

Considering how close the balloting was in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, I should think the RATs would be going into 2020 confident that they could restore their “Blue Wall.”

But this doesn’t seem to be the case.

Thoughts anyone?


48 posted on 12/24/2019 10:37:21 AM PST by Nothingburger (Unfort)
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To: C210N

LOL!!


49 posted on 12/24/2019 10:37:55 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: lonevoice

Now this is what I call a great Christmas gift!


50 posted on 12/24/2019 10:45:47 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Sen. Phil Gramm said that by 2000 Democrats would be hunted down like dogs. Still waiting...


51 posted on 12/24/2019 10:46:10 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one w)
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To: gibsonguy

FNC polls have been extreme outliers, and all of their talking heads know it. It’s entertaining to see them discussing “Trump beating all the dems”, only to put up their own poll showing every single dem beating Trump, and then they completely dismiss their own poll and go back to Trump leading. Their own people completely discredit FNC polls.


52 posted on 12/24/2019 10:46:18 AM PST by ETCM
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To: powermill

Is there any sane, balanced, objective, person in the entire Democrat Party that realizes that Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Chuck Schumer, Barack Hussein Obama, are all insane and USA traitor & Turncoats to boot?

Methinks..not!!! Pelosi must go right now, broomed & thrown out the front door this very afternoon!!! It won’t happen folks...she will destroy the entire Democrat Party politically...1,2,3!!! Democrats...Fools They All Must Be!!!


53 posted on 12/24/2019 10:46:46 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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To: EdnaMode
"And the leftwing base that thought Trump was removed will be angry at the Democrats."

Yup.

That news hasn't reached them yet.It may be a while before many of the Democrat voters find out:

Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read

Same for New Orleans.

54 posted on 12/24/2019 10:47:31 AM PST by blam
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To: powermill; DoughtyOne; Chode
at 9:00 Impeachment is a dead cat. Stop playing with it.
55 posted on 12/24/2019 10:49:57 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: powermill

nice ....


56 posted on 12/24/2019 11:00:38 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: powermill
Merry FAKE IMPEACHMMMMMAS HOAX!!! 😝😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣AND a very MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎁 And blessed New Year 🥂🍾 to my FREEPER friends! Jesus is the reason for the season!!
57 posted on 12/24/2019 11:03:44 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: powermill

58 posted on 12/24/2019 11:05:59 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: powermill

The Democrat Party, led by Nanay Pelosi is going back to Mueller and company. I got news for Nancy & her Democrat buffoons.....Bob Mueller could not find his way, with 100% assistance, to the nearest bathroom. The guy is a walking, talking moron!!! Did you witness his TV Fiasco? End of Story!!!


59 posted on 12/24/2019 11:08:40 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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To: powermill
Not to mention the fund raising for President Trump! Everytime they piss me off, which is quite often, I send a contribution.


60 posted on 12/24/2019 11:55:07 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
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