Posted on 06/23/2022 5:45:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Two congressional Democrats conceded that voters don't care about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, according to a reporter who spoke with them.
Politico national correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan shared what she heard as Capitol Hill gears up for the 2022 midterm elections during a segment Wednesday on the streaming service NBC News NOW. The exchange took place as the Jan. 6 committee is in the midst of holding a slate of summer hearings in which members are working to tie former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results to the Capitol riot.
“Does the Jan. 6 hearing break through at all?" anchor Chuck Todd asked after he noted polling that shows most Republicans think Trump truly believed there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
“I don’t think it does. I've talked to two separate Democratic members of Congress in the last couple weeks about Jan. 6 — obviously, I can’t say who — and both of them have said, offhandedly, nobody gives a bleep about Jan. 6 when they are talking about their districts and the way that elections play out," she said.
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Third impeachment of Donald Trump going about as well as the first two.
“Hence the tabling of the hearings for a couple of weeks..... soon to be permanent.”
They want to have the hearings during the summer, thinking they’ll be watched because nothing else will be going on, like the HUAC hearings in the late 40’s or the Iran/Contra hearings.
The all-government-all-the-time NPR people will watch but nobody else. The hearings are a total dud and they know it.
Well said.
Not interested in listening to the lies and cover ups. The *hearings* are just political theater.
Release the political prisoners.
ALL of them.
Even Simone Gold who was given a sentence for daring to exercise her right to free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution.
They haven't heard of cable, internet and streaming services?
Congressional Democrats could be that dumb!
Politico national correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan
Judy Woodruff spawn? Seems the press is as inbred as the government it represents.
Chuck Todd has a sad. It’s probably all he’s been blabbing about for the last month.
“Congressional Democrats could be that dumb!”
They don’t live in the real world. They live in a media-created reality.
Anyone care to give the over/under on the number of times Lynn Cheney visits Wyoming before election day. Suspect it will be under 5.
MASSIVE FAIL!.........................
yep, the show trials were a total flop.
Time to try something else to save the midterms!
LMAO
Agree with the total release of the political prisoners.
Anyone in the FedGov that has anything to do with the extended incarceration of people for misdemeanor charges should be introduced to their dirt nap forthwith.
A lot of those in jail had the bad luck to simply be in WDC for sightseeing.
The “hearings” might have attracted more viewers if they weren’t totally one-sided. I think everyone realizes this is just a Media-Dem Party show trial attempting to knock Trump out of the 2024 race. But, even then most people have moved on, they realize that January 6th was a one-off, a 2 or 3 hour riot at worse, that there was no real threat to “our democracy”, and that Trump left the White House and flew away, he didn’t have to be dragged out in cuffs or flushed out with teargas as many in the media had predicted.
Brought to you by the same twenty something know nothing radical progressive coed reporters.
Betsy's parents are Jane Tharpa and Scott Woodruff. There's no relation to Judy or Bob Woodruff.
When gasoline is $5-$8 a gallon, food prices are at a premium and housing costs (rents and mortgages) are literally thru the roof, the Dems are playing political games on national Television and THEY WONDER WHY NO ONE IS WATCHING!.................
They know they can’t indict Trump unless there is generalized public outrage about Jan 6; since no one is paying attention, I suspect they will just slink away.
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