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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,739 posts)
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 08:09 PM Sep 2019

Democrats probably can't impeach Brett Kavanaugh, but they can make him a political weapon

Impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, as some 2020 Democrats called on Congress to do this weekend over a new sexual misconduct allegation, almost certainly won’t happen. Democrats are focused on potentially impeaching President Trump, it’s historically rare to impeach a justice, and it wouldn’t get him off the court: Unseating him would require a number of Senate Republicans to vote to unseat the justice who tipped the court majority in their favor.

But that doesn’t mean we won’t hear a lot more about this. The incident the New York Times reported is just coming to light, and with it new questions about its validity and why we are just learning of it. We’ll also continue to hear about it because the allegations against Kavanaugh provide potent political weaponry for both sides. They are a way for both Democrats and Republicans to make the 2020 election about something other than Trump, while still playing up the central themes of their messaging.

Democrats witnessed in 2016 how Hillary Clinton’s warnings to voters about the dangers of Trump didn’t turn out or win over the voters they needed. In 2018, Democrats won back the House of Representatives not by campaigning strictly against Trump, but by focusing on health care and other policy issues.

Could talking about Kavanaugh be a more politically effective way to talk about Trump? Axios reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is worried about Trump fatigue in 2020, too, so she has a plan to shift political messaging away from Trump and more toward Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the self-described “grim reaper” of Democratic legislation. There’s evidence the base is fired up about confronting McConnell. The Democratic challenger for his Senate seat, Amy McGrath, raised a wild $2.5 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-probably-cant-impeach-brett-kavanaugh-but-they-can-make-him-a-political-weapon/ar-AAHnSFY?li=BBnb7Kz

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Democrats probably can't impeach Brett Kavanaugh, but they can make him a political weapon (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2019 OP
impeachable offense against twitler, tho. mopinko Sep 2019 #1
more msm bs ... "Democrats witnessed dweller Sep 2019 #2

mopinko

(69,990 posts)
1. impeachable offense against twitler, tho.
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 08:19 PM
Sep 2019

add squelching an fbi investigation to the list.
suborning perjury. anyone remember the murder boards?
throw in the obvious funny money situation.
and btw, ya remember whose job all this was? don mcgahn.

dweller

(23,612 posts)
2. more msm bs ... "Democrats witnessed
Mon Sep 16, 2019, 08:36 PM
Sep 2019

in 2016 how Hillary Clinton’s warnings to voters about the dangers of Trump didn’t turn out or win over the voters they needed. "

no mention of the millions of votes more than Hair Twitler, nor of the russian interference, the collusion, Mueller etc, etc

wrong msg then, implying wrong msg now



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