Uh... elections are based on the number of votes not how angry each voter is. LOL

Trump hit a ceiling in 2017 and hasn't done anything to earn more loyalty beyond the 30% that he already had. He's the first president with such a static base and he is depending on that 30% (and whatever hanky-panky the Republicans can contrive to give him an edge in the EC.

Yes, he got more than 30% of the popular votes in 2016 but that's because the Democrats suffered one of the lowest turnouts in their history, so it's more like 30% of the 60% of the voters who actually voted. Signs indicate that the other 40% will engage this time.

30% btw is the high estimate; the low estimate is 24%. It's hard to nail down exact figures with polls and studies, so I'm just going with the high estimate here. You might also be thinking about his job approval rating which peaked at 44%. But that's 44% of those polled and it's been noticed that the bigger the poll studies are (the more people polled) the lower his approval rating turns out to be.


Here's an excerpt from the Washington Post...

Critics of impeachment argue that the effort to remove Trump from office over his open invitations of foreign meddling in our elections will only ignite the Trump “base.” Those who say we should let this all go see his backers as an excitable immovable bloc of people closed to reasoned argument or new information.

Thus are roughly 40 percent of our fellow citizens cast as an unthinking blob that will embrace anything Trump says and turn out in droves in 2020 to beat back the elitist fake-newsers and deep-staters no matter what the facts are.

Those of us who support impeachment don’t deny that there is a “Trump base” but insist that mountains of polling evidence show that it amounts to 25 to 30 percent of voters at most. The rest of the 46 percent who voted for Trump have real doubts about who he is, how he behaves and what he is doing to our country. Even those of us who disagree with them on a variety of issues see this substantial part of Trump’s constituency as made up of rational and engaged citizens open to persuasion.


So, 30%... It's the biggest his "base" has EVER been. That's all he had in 2017, it's all he had in 2018, it's all he has now and it's all he will have in 2020. In the meantime, Republicans are losing congressional races and governor races all across the country. If anything Trump is killing the GOP.

Face it, Trump is hated by everyone in the world except a few dictators and that rabid MAGA-Nazi club that only amounts to 30% of Americans... at most. This is why Pelosi held off on impeaching him for so long. She didn't want to impeach him because she was looking forward to seeing him getting kicked out by way of election. I was too. I hope that still happens. I hope the Senate saves his fat ass so We the People can kick it out in 2020. Then dance in the streets!

Oh, I agree. Reading your comments stimulated my thinking thingy - you probably smelled the smoke. I think there may be one other option. Dirty Trump up as much as hearsay can with a few other innuendos and then say "we absolutely know he did it but we cannot conclusively prove it!" Does character assassination work? Consider the progressives here on OPP that remain unconditionally convinced that President Trump colluded with the Russians. To reach their objectives Progressives would discredit God. How do we know? Because they already have!

Thanks so much for your approval. I'll pass it along to Nasty Nancy. BTW, don't you think both Pelosi and Schiff went into this knowing that Republicans didn't have the balls to stand up for the rule of law? And please bring EVERYTHING into this. That's just what the nation want's to see in an election year--a bunch of vindictive Conservatives pissed because things didn't go their way.

Twice Trump has tried to use foreign powers to help elect him president. No sooner had Trump put Mueller behind him he tried to blackmail the president of Ukraine into investigating his political opposition and accepting credit for hacking the DNC server. And sadly president Z was willing to do that because he was desperate for the military aid Trump was offering in exchange.

That's the picture Schiff is going to paint and you think you will obscure it by looking into every conspiracy theory and rabbit hole held by you conservative? Please, please do that. But people better be as stupid as you paint them because if they aren't they are going to bury Republicans in this next election cycle.