JGalt
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Back in May of 2019, the Democrats were 100% positive that Joe Biden would be the next President. He was the one who was going to lead them back to the "glory days" of the Obama president. Biden's polling skyrocketed from 28.3% to 41.4%, in only one month! At the same time, Bernie Sanders' poll numbers were plummeting as Biden's were rising.
But something happened between then and now. Joe Biden has managed to drop from 41.4% on May of 2019, to the dismal level of 16.5% a couple days ago. That's a 40% drop in the polls.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2020 - 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination!
So what happened? Think "impeachment." Biden's numbers started dropping when the Democrats realized that the Senate would not impeach President Trump, and continued to fall through the floor. The Democrats were hedging all their bets on reliving the Obama days with Joe Biden as their surrogate, but that crashed and burned because of the failure of the Senate to impeach President Trump.
Now let's go back to the phone call between President Trump, and Ukraine President Zelensky: Does anyone really believe that wasn't a setup to knock Biden out of the race? President Trump was well aware of the BIdens' corrupt dealings in Ukraine. Conservative media had been covering that for some time but even so, the liberal media sources such as CNN and MSNBC would touch it. They were far to sure that Joe Biden was going to be the next President, and far be it from them to report anything scandalous about their next President.
So how to bring this scandal to the forefront, and remove a presidential candidate? The phone call. President Trump knew how many people were listening. He knew that there would be leaks to the media. He probably even knew that the House would get their impeachment wish, the Senate would drop it like a hot potato, and that Biden would pretty much be dead in the water. And he was even willing to risk an impeachment.
That was a pretty slick trick there, Mr. President. You truly are the master of 3D chess.
But something happened between then and now. Joe Biden has managed to drop from 41.4% on May of 2019, to the dismal level of 16.5% a couple days ago. That's a 40% drop in the polls.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2020 - 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination!
So what happened? Think "impeachment." Biden's numbers started dropping when the Democrats realized that the Senate would not impeach President Trump, and continued to fall through the floor. The Democrats were hedging all their bets on reliving the Obama days with Joe Biden as their surrogate, but that crashed and burned because of the failure of the Senate to impeach President Trump.
Now let's go back to the phone call between President Trump, and Ukraine President Zelensky: Does anyone really believe that wasn't a setup to knock Biden out of the race? President Trump was well aware of the BIdens' corrupt dealings in Ukraine. Conservative media had been covering that for some time but even so, the liberal media sources such as CNN and MSNBC would touch it. They were far to sure that Joe Biden was going to be the next President, and far be it from them to report anything scandalous about their next President.
So how to bring this scandal to the forefront, and remove a presidential candidate? The phone call. President Trump knew how many people were listening. He knew that there would be leaks to the media. He probably even knew that the House would get their impeachment wish, the Senate would drop it like a hot potato, and that Biden would pretty much be dead in the water. And he was even willing to risk an impeachment.
That was a pretty slick trick there, Mr. President. You truly are the master of 3D chess.
