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struggle4progress

(118,268 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 11:28 AM Sep 2019

A quarter of Republicans back impeachment probe

By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 30, 2019 | 9:55 AM

Nearly a fourth of Republicans back the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and 16% say he should be removed from office in a new poll sure to send shock waves through an embattled White House.

Just days into the probe, an eye-opening 23% of GOP supporters say they support the impeachment effort, a CBS News poll revealed. One in six Republicans say they’ve seen enough evidence of wrongdoing to remove Trump.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-impeachment-poll-trump-republican-20190930-iymftqkmlzd5pkrz6dfprwrini-story.html

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A quarter of Republicans back impeachment probe (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
Minor clarification- Republican VOTERS, not POLITICIANS RainCaster Sep 2019 #1
This is just the start: magats are identity leeches: They use the fame and fortune of strangers to b lindysalsagal Sep 2019 #2

RainCaster

(10,853 posts)
1. Minor clarification- Republican VOTERS, not POLITICIANS
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 11:46 AM
Sep 2019

The pols won't change their minds until they see how the public tide has shifted.

lindysalsagal

(20,638 posts)
2. This is just the start: magats are identity leeches: They use the fame and fortune of strangers to b
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 12:17 PM
Sep 2019

bolster their own sense of self: This is what american branding and marketing is all about, and we've all been trained since before birth to respond to it.

Hence, celebrity spokespersons pay their bills in middle age with ads for everything, because people want to say, "I'm like him/her."

But, when the source of your self is an incompetent lying, failing mobster, you feel personally injured, and you don't come back.

Add that to the fact that most magats are followers, and this means the followers are just starting to follow the leaders in this respect:

The emperor finally has no clothes.

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