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Trump Impeachment Tag

Between the GOP ad blitz underway in competitive House districts and numerous polls released over the last month, vulnerable House Democrats are in full panic mode as they head home to their districts for the Thanksgiving holiday. While Republican opposition and Democrat support for impeachment remains largely unchanged, support from independents for impeachment dropped dramatically as television stations carried the hearings. Now media reports have come out about some moderate Democrats getting "cold feet" over the entire process.

I was in Ithaca for a school event recently, and it didn't take much time so see an anti-Impeachment ad on TV. This ad directed at Anthony Brindisi (D-NY22) was all over the airwaves (not sure if it was Binghamton or Syracuse stations):

The media has to fact check President Donald Trump over every little thing he says or tweets. Political counsel at the US Embassy in Ukraine David Holmes claimed he heard Trump speaking to US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland "through the earpiece" of the latter's phone. Trump tweeted his doubt about Holmes's claim. CNN host Chris Cuomo tried to prove Trump wrong and failed miserably on live TV.

I am now going to give you the least surprising announcement in the history of unsurprising announcements:
"Breaking: Dems say enough evidence to move forward on impeachment. Vote likely by mid-December. They will not wait for courts to force additional witnesses"

The impeachment hearings in front of the House Intelligence Committee took a weirdish turn this afternoon:
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer at the National Security Council, told Nunes that he spoke with two people outside the White House about Trump's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky in the immediate wake of the interaction, including State Department official George Kent and one member of the "intelligence community."

You may have noticed I've been a little thin around here lately. It's been crunch time for me as the semester is nearing an end, and I've also had some personal matters to attend to.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said he wants to postpone future impeachment hearings due to new developments from closed-door testimonies over the weekend:
"A lot of people didn't realize that once the cameras ended... on Friday, we then went back to this SCIF in the Capitol basement where there was a closed-door deposition," Zeldin said on Fox Nation's "Maria Bartiromo's Insiders."