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In June, 72 percent of Republicans still approved of the job he was doing. That's with, to be charitable, absolutely nothing he has done going right. And that doesn't mean the other 28 percent are voting Democrat. As we've seen on this board, there is a large segment of his supporters who will continue to support him no matter what he does. Republicans have won their by-elections, like the one in Georgia, by narrower margins, but they've still won. The gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts have proved effective and continue. I don't think he's going to get impeached, mostly because all the House Republicans seem to care about is keeping their grip on power and he's a useful idiot.

The only way he's not president, I think, is if he has a heart attack and dies (imagine those conspiracies) or he steps aside because he just doesn't want to do the job anymore (and leaves chaos in his wake).

 

Where? Who? Huh?

 

What are the odds this buffoon claims victory after LA gets the Olympics? 1-9?

 

They aren't even on the board.

 

Speaking of Russia, it looks like Kat Heigl is moonlighting over there.

 

I feel like they don't really give any thought about what they tweet

 

Kat Heigl has farted out three kids by now, so she probably looks like any 250K+ mom now.

 

I didn't think she stopped being annoying long enough to mate.

 

Heigl in 2017 ...

 

Could be. But I don't think so. Remember that party ID shifts with the political tides. A lot of the independents in those polls today said they were Republicans in October. Unless something changes for the better for him, Trump will have to once again hope his opposition is split as it was in 2016. Might happen again, but less likely. And this is all without a major war and with a relatively prosperous economy. If anything goes wrong, and it often does, Trump will just make it worse. Any incumbent has advantages, but they're not guarantees. GHW Bush went from 91 percent approval in March 1991 to 38 percent of the vote in November 1992 and all that really happened was a relatively mild recession.

 

Trump-Russia investigators probe
Jared Kushner-run digital operation

Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Congressional and Justice Department investigators are focusing on whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions in key states – areas where Trump’s digital team and Republican operatives were spotting unexpected weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton, according to several people familiar with the parallel inquiries. ...

Kushner’s “role as a possible cut-out or conduit for Moscow’s influence operations in the elections,” including his niche overseeing the digital operations, will be closely looked at, said the source knowledgeable about the Justice Department inquiry. ...

“I get the fact that the Russian intel services could figure out how to manipulate and use the bots,” Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told Pod Save America recently. “Whether they could know how to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware (of) really raises some questions … How did they know to go to that level of detail in those kinds of jurisdictions?”

The Russians appear to have targeted women and African-Americans in two of the three decisive states, Wisconsin and Michigan, “where the Democrats were too brain dead to realize those states were even in play,” Warner said.

Twitter’s and Facebook’s search engines in those states were overwhelmed, he said, meaning they couldn’t discern fake news from real news.

“On your news feed, you suddenly got … ‘Hillary Clinton’s sick’ or ‘Hillary Clinton’s stealing money from the State Department,’” said Warner. ...

No one has proved that Russia’s attack influenced the vote count in the Nov. 8 general election., but it wouldn’t have taken much to tip the results and change the course of history.

Clinton lost the decisive states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania by a combined 77,744 votes out of 13.9 million ballots cast. She could have won Michigan if 5,353 Trump voters had gone for her instead, Wisconsin if 11,375 votes had flipped to her and Pennsylvania if 22,147 Trump voters had instead picked her.

Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation