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TexasTowelie

(118,360 posts) Sat Dec 22, 2018, 01:20 AM Dec 2018

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Dukakis To Dems: Focus Less On Impeachment, More On 2020

Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis urged his fellow Democrats to avoid pushing for impeachment and instead to focus on the 2020 election in an interview with Boston Public Radio Tuesday.

“I’m not a big impeachment fan — I think we just go out and beat [President Trump's] brains in, politically, in two years,” Dukakis said.

A survey released in April by NPR, PBS Newshour and Marist Poll found that 70 percent of Democratic respondents said they would definitely vote for a candidate who supported the idea of impeachment.

“I really don’t think that spending a lot of time on impeachment makes sense,” Dukakis said. “I just think we’ve got to get out there and work our tails off in every single one of the states.”

Read more: https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2018/12/18/dukakis-to-dems-focus-less-on-impeachment-more-on-2020

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Dukakis To Dems: Focus Less On Impeachment, More On 2020 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP

Sounds good but elleng Dec 2018 #1

The way to beat Trump's 'brains' in House of Roberts Dec 2018 #2

If this shitshow gets bad enough the Repubs will talk impeachment. argyl Dec 2018 #3

elleng

(137,640 posts)

1. Sounds good but

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 01:30 AM

Dec 2018

there may not be time; he's a wrecking ball.

House of Roberts

(5,819 posts)

2. The way to beat Trump's 'brains' in

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 01:30 AM

Dec 2018

is to exhaustively investigate every detail of his wrongdoing and release it all to the electorate.

argyl

(3,064 posts)

3. If this shitshow gets bad enough the Repubs will talk impeachment.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Dec 22, 2018, 04:21 AM

Dec 2018

Let them push it front and center. It will have to be bipartisan anyway.

And it probably will come to that.

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