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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFear: House Democrats have lobbed a grenade into GOP Senate campaigns
New York Times, October 24, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/senate-republicans-trump.html
Vulnerable Senate Republicans Shrink From Defending Trump
WASHINGTON Senate Republicans facing steep re-election races next year know the impeachment inquiry coursing steadily ahead on the other side of the Capitol will determine President Trumps political fate. Their growing fear is that it will also determine their own.
In a matter of weeks, those few senators have watched helplessly as the investigation by House Democrats has lobbed a grenade into the middle of their campaigns, putting them on the defensive amid a torrent of damaging revelations about the presidents conduct with no clear end in sight.
It has tightened the squeeze they were already feeling between a political base that demands unquestioning loyalty to Mr. Trump, and the moderate swing voters who may very well decide their elections. And it is one reason that support for the president in the Republican-led Senate appears to be subtly softening, a phenomenon that some of his own advisers fear that Mr. Trump does not fully appreciate.
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, known as a talented campaigner, abruptly walked away from a filmed interview last weekend to avoid answering a question about the military assistance Mr. Trump withheld from Ukraine, a central issue in the inquiry into whether the president enlisted a foreign government to smear his political opponents. In brisk dashes back to their offices, Senators Martha McSally of Arizona and Joni Ernst of Iowa, quickly pivoted to other issues such as rising health care costs, border security and the trade deal with Mexico and Canada. And Senator Susan Collins of Maine has rebuffed any effort to get her to weigh in on impeachment, saying that doing so could jeopardize her impartiality as a juror in an increasingly inevitable trial of the president.
In a matter of weeks, those few senators have watched helplessly as the investigation by House Democrats has lobbed a grenade into the middle of their campaigns, putting them on the defensive amid a torrent of damaging revelations about the presidents conduct with no clear end in sight.
It has tightened the squeeze they were already feeling between a political base that demands unquestioning loyalty to Mr. Trump, and the moderate swing voters who may very well decide their elections. And it is one reason that support for the president in the Republican-led Senate appears to be subtly softening, a phenomenon that some of his own advisers fear that Mr. Trump does not fully appreciate.
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, known as a talented campaigner, abruptly walked away from a filmed interview last weekend to avoid answering a question about the military assistance Mr. Trump withheld from Ukraine, a central issue in the inquiry into whether the president enlisted a foreign government to smear his political opponents. In brisk dashes back to their offices, Senators Martha McSally of Arizona and Joni Ernst of Iowa, quickly pivoted to other issues such as rising health care costs, border security and the trade deal with Mexico and Canada. And Senator Susan Collins of Maine has rebuffed any effort to get her to weigh in on impeachment, saying that doing so could jeopardize her impartiality as a juror in an increasingly inevitable trial of the president.
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Fear: House Democrats have lobbed a grenade into GOP Senate campaigns (Original Post)
crazytown
Oct 2019
OP
I guess gerrymandering is coming home to roost. It is either lose to a primary challenger who is
alwaysinasnit
Oct 2019
#4
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)1. Sweat and furrowed brows. Should I support the tin pot dicatator?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,023 posts)2. Good
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)3. maybe they should have spoken up sooner, like maybe 2015
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)4. I guess gerrymandering is coming home to roost. It is either lose to a primary challenger who is
further right of center than they are, or lose in the general election to a Democrat.