ago. it s at 45% now. it was at 50% in november. and when you look by party among democrats, when they are asked, should the president be impeached and removed from office, it was 90% in november. it is 77% now. and then looking at battleground states, including your state of pennsylvania, which the president won in the election, a majority of battleground voters don t think there s enough evidence for the house to vote to impeach the president. do those numbers worry you? well, i would say they don t because i try not to provide some kind of conclusion from that. there are different polls that will have different results. and, frankly, a lot of politicians and even some pundits analyze polls in ways that don t often make a lot of sense. so i try not to get into that, even when it comes to polls of a candidate s re-election or things like that. here s a key that i think the
and people with their 401-ks and their pocketbooks. right now the economy s in strong shape. lisa: to rush limbaugh s point, you look at the political nature of the impeachment hearings, they re doing focus groups to move the needle with battleground voters. the democrats know this is political. they know the likelihood of the senate acquitting is so high and so basically this is kind of just trying to drag trump through the mud. you ve got the hearing in the ways and means committee room because it looks better than the intelligence committee. yesterday huh a private hearing. they re interviewing witnesses before they make them public. it s a rehearsal process to see if you re good enough to go public. to rush s point, if i say if if the house were to move forward with impeachment, and they impeached the presiden, pr, the senate would acquit, the
of donald trump s presidency, it could alter the political landscape of this country for generations to come. it appears the american people know that. a record number of them aren t waiting for election day to cast their votes. as of wednesday, over 24 million votes have been counted as early or absentee. that number exceeds 2014 nationwide vote. democrats usually benefit from early voting, so will the old rule apply in 2018? with five days to go, which party has the edge. a new poll says it s the democrats with 50% of the likely battleground voters say they back a democratic candidate. 46% in support of the republican. a four-point edge does not sound like much but these are the same voters who favored republicans by a margin of 15 points back in 2016. that kind of swing might translate to a massive blue
president trump and his party as well. what do you make of how we got to this point and what s the out, as you see? how long will we be stuck in the shutdown? we re seeing a situation where republicans control all of the government and yet they are still not able to do their number one job, which is to keep the lights on. and if you go back and see where this all started, the things that they are now claiming are important to them, like children s health insurance, there s no reason why they let that expire a few months ago, which has actually put a number of different state, children s health insurance programs in peril. there s no reason why the president had to rescind daca and they couldn t replace that with a d.r.e.a.m. act. the majority of republicans support, battleground voters, the majority of, support. this has been about gamesmanship. you do have to wonder. it comes back to fundamentally, i don t think there s a conservative vision for governance right now. and donald trum
limited to immigrants from mexico an latin american countries. as we ve heard. new polling suggests voters are poised to blame republicans if congress fails to keep the government working. the poll conducted by the democratic leaning firm hart research associates surveyed voters in a dozen battleground states and found 42% of americans would blame the president and the majority, only 31% would blame democrats. a whopping 81% of the battleground voters say any agreement should include a deal to prevent the deportation of undocumented dreamers. here s the thing. we re not talking about all democrats. all you need, you know the makt, is about 10 democrats in the senate to vote for this. and you know, they can kick that can, pump that football, whatever you want to call it. and not deal with daca. give me ten games. i understand constituency politics. hispanic people are very