Posted on 05/05/2019 7:29:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not believe President Trump can be removed through impeachment — the only way to do it, she said this week, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so “big” he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a Democratic victory.
That is something she worries about.
“We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview at the Capitol on Wednesday as she discussed her concern that Mr. Trump would not give up power voluntarily if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year.
Sitting in her office with its panoramic view of the National Mall, Ms. Pelosi — the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 — offered Democrats her “coldblooded” plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left.
“Own the center left, own the mainstream,” Ms. Pelosi, 79, said.
“Our passions were for health care, bigger paychecks, cleaner government — a simple message,” Ms. Pelosi said of the 40-seat Democratic pickup last year that resulted in her second ascent to the speakership. “We did not engage in some of the other exuberances that exist in our party” — a reference to some of the most ambitious plans advocated by the left wing of her party and some 2020 candidates, including “Medicare for all” and the Green New Deal, which she has declined to support.
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“Center”?
When was the last time the Democrat Party was in the center?
If they ban him on the ballot then he’d be justified in questioning not only the legitimacy of the President but also the legitimacy of the Congress.
TRANSLATION: “We need a bigger margin-of-cheating.”
Now the center of rabid leftism your DemRat Party there Nanners.,
They deleted their own poll tweet.....LOLOL!!
Hard to sell cleaner government bathing in the sewer Pelosi.
She just confessed they’re going to be cheating as hard as they can and she doesn’t even realize it.
If every single California and New York voter had pulled the lever for Hillary she would have had a 20,000,000 vote lead in voting over Donald Trump - and she still would have lost.
Founding fathers, you were brilliant!
I’m getting the sense that more than a few Democrats are waking up and beginning to realize their party is way too left even for them.
The Times (and Democrats) thought Trump wouldn’t accept Hillary as President - AND they thought Trump would fire Rod Rosenstein - and Mueller...and that he colluded with Russians, and that he didn’t have much money, and that he had no chance of being elected President and and and...
Do these folks EVER guess right?
Isn't she a few decades too late in her warning?
The Democrat party is not drifting left so much as it is finally taking off the mask and being more open about what it has always been.
Logical fallacies everywhere...
She might want to talk to Hillary who’s saying Trump stole the election from her... THIS weekend!
What pelosi really meant to say.
LOLOL....too funny.
Good for Caleb!
It should be tweeted to ALL Senators.
“She just confessed they’re going to be cheating as hard as they can and she doesn’t even realize it.”
Oh, they realize they’re gonna have to do it; they don’t realize they’ve revealed their intentions. (I think that’s what you’re saying) But they do it every time.
In fact it’s kind of interesting, they know so clearly they’ll have to cheat; there’s actually a reverse correlation between them knowing that and them NOT knowing that they are revealing it.
Watch how this “Trump won’t leave even if defeated” catches like a prairie wildfire and next week every MSM dope starts repeating the exact meme. It’s as predictable as the sun rising in the East. When Jake Tapper repeats the meme and gets the concerned expression, you’ll know.
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