Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Antics Are Pushing This Key Battleground State Out of Reach for Democrats
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. The core of the blue wall Democrats maintained since the 1980s. States that Republicans haven’t won in decades. Until 2016, the last time Wisconsin went Republican was 1984, with Pennsylvania and Michigan last going for the GOP in 1988. Trump tapped into the white working class, he had an agenda, and voters responded. The margin wasn’t massive, but it was big enough. Now, Democrats have to win these states back in order to beat Trump. And it’s no cakewalk. With Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, spearheading this shoddy and laughable impeachment push of Donald Trump, it’s making it that much harder for his party to retake these states. Impeachment theater got 24/7 coverage. We heard the walls were closing in, only to have several polls showing support has dipped. In Wisconsin, a must-win state for Democrats in 2020, it’s even dipped a bit among Democrats.
The Marquette University Law School poll is rather quite insightful. The Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman commented on this survey as well, noting that Wisconsin, in his mind, remains the state that is going to be the most difficult for Democrats to reclaim next year:
Even as hearings that could lead to President Donald Trump’s impeachment heat up, a new Marquette University Law School poll of Wisconsin registered voters finds consistent, if sometimes modest, shifts in public opinion away from support of impeachment and toward supporting Trump in next year’s presidential election.
For example, Trump holds small leads over each of four top Democratic candidates for president in head-to-head matchups in the new survey, while three of the Democrats held small leads over Trump in the previous poll.
While the shifts in opinion on both impeachment and presidential preferences are not large, they are consistent across multiple questions in the poll. That includes increases in support for Trump’s work on foreign policy and the economy.
Lots of Dems pushing this to suggest Trump wrong about a drop in support for impeachment, but:
1. Several other polls show support dropping.
2. After wall-to-wall coverage of Schiff's hearings, they needed support to increase. It didn't. https://t.co/hVNdukIwiJ
— Michael Ahrens (@michael_ahrens) November 26, 2019
Have long believed (even aside from this poll) that Wisconsin will be the toughest state for Dems to get back of the MI/PA/WI trio. https://t.co/vmkFOBMFe0
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 20, 2019
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