Impeachment Has Made Democrats More Vulnerable, Not Less

Dr. Munr Kazmir
4 min readDec 7, 2019

Moderate Dems from swing districts are panicking. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is making millions fundraising on impeachment.

President Donald J. Trump meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressional leadership Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

It could be that U.S. President Donald Trump is playing checkers, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is playing chess.

But it could also be the other way around.

If Moderate Democrats are to be believed, the latter may be the way the wind is blowing into Election year, 2020. Moderate Democrats from vulnerable swing districts feel their reelection concerns aren’t being taken seriously enough by Democratic leadership.

It is difficult to see where Democrats intend to go from the Judiciary Committee and Rep. Jerry Nadler. If constitutional law professors who’ve never met Donald Trump- and weren’t privy to any information about the Ukrainian call in question- are being consulted for their learned opinions on the House floor, Democrats have no other material witnesses to call.

If House Democrats, led by a once impeachment-reluctant Nancy Pelosi, intended for the previous weeks of Congressional testimony by career diplomats disappointed in Trump diplomacy to move the needle of public sentiment in Democratic favor, they failed.

Registered Democrats planning to vote Democrat in 2020 are certainly convinced of…

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