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In reply to the discussion: GOP REPS FEEL UNSAFE - Complaining About Uncivility. - MSN - The Hill. [View all]still_one
(92,479 posts)representative in Kentucky, it appears in his district most of his constituents still support trump in two out of three of the town halls he held:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-gop-congressman-from-kentucky-wonders-is-this-trump-thing-sustainable/2017/05/20/1cbd5374-3c16-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_kentuckyhome-830pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
I sure wouldn't be lulled into a false sense of complacency because the town halls presented through the national media showed concern, worry, anger, and fear about their future.
A big part of that disconnect is due to the fact that most of those people in those red districts that went for trump, their source for news is fox, not CNN or MSNBC. I am convinced that the only thing that will move people who voted for trump is if there personal situation is adversely affected by his policies, and that will happen only after the damage has been inflicted on them.
While Gallop's daily tracking poll shows 56% disapprove of trump's job performance, while 37% approve, because of redistricting, and not unlike the electoral college, 2018 is an uphill fight.
I think in states in blue states like California we have some real opportunities to take back republican districts in 2018, and I would like to believe that in purple states, if we are able to get people to turnout in 2018 to vote, we have a fair chance to take back Congress.
I am not that optimistic that impeachment will happen with a republican congress. The best we can hope for there is that it delays the brutal, inhuman, and regressive republican agenda. The only thing that can stop this nightmare is 2018