Over the past few weeks, public opinion on impeaching President Donald Trump has shifted rapidly. It’s been stunning to watch.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1254909
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1254909
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Consider me stunned and struck dumb.
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“Silent Majority” comes to mind. They’ve been there all along.
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I’m looking forward to next week’s polls which will include the barbarity of his Turkey capitulation.
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I want next week to be Defenestration Week at the White House. Too bad there are only four floors above ground.
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My guess for the reason the poll numbers shifted to impeachment inquiry was the release of the WH memo. People could read for themselves, and they didn’t like it.
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“Over the past few weeks, public opinion on impeaching President Donald Trump has shifted rapidly. It’s been stunning to watch.”
At this point, Trump’s blowing more polls than Jim Jordan at an Ohio State Polkafest.
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Now we’re talking. Go Marie!
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As more evidence of Trump’s massive abuse of his position and his ongoing corruption come to light, impeachment support will grow (just not as dramatically as the last 2 weeks). In the end, Trump will retain his hardcore deplorable base. I put them about 25-30% of voters. These people are unreachable to facts and reason.
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SHOCKING!!
BREAKING not NEWS!!!
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I see what you did there 
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It may be a mistake to think that the details of the Ukraine scandal have anything to do with the change in opinion. The turning point was Democrats like Pelosi coming out for impeachment. It is likely that a significant portion of the population thought that if Pelosi was against there must not be anything there. The rise coincided with Trump responding to impeachment the way that a guilty person would.
The most significant factor, though seems to be that support seems to be moving towards the percentage of voters that have said they would not consider voting for Trump in 2020, but with no hint it might move past that. The most interesting thing in the Fox poll showing majority support for impeachment is that the same poll showed that Trump’s favorability/unfavorability ratings were essentially unchanged from two months before (the unfavorability had actually dropped by an insignificant 1%).
So at this point nobody who supports Trump seems to be seeing this as a reason not to support him.
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Throwing the Kurds to the Turks IS utter barbarity!
Trump can only be trusted to protect his own wealth and ego, and we may soon find the he has little or no real wealth under his own control. Ego he has, but it is ego that was bought and protected by Roy Cohen tactics.
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But so many windows to toss him from!
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This is great, however I don’t know that we have yet seen any movement on the 40% foundation that trump has…that might be in a second wave, but I don’t think we’ve seen that yet.
Unless we see movement in that 40% # that elected him in the first place or indications that Dems will actually vote this cycle instead of staying home and pouting that their anointed saint didn’t get the nomination, I’m afraid I’m not going to get too excited yet.
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I’m sensing a critical mass of events that will overwhelm Trump and his defenders.
They’ll lay smoke and retreat, but it won’t save them. At some point they’ve got to surrender and hope the enemy takes prisoners.
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But will that reason hold after Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria?
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As she strode into the meeting, head held high, posture upright, gait steady and sure I knew she was going to light their hair on fire. I was actually cheering “go sister, go”.
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