LETTER TO THE EDITOR

To the Times: After 17 private depositions, two weeks of public hearings and 12 live witnesses, a new poll shows that there has been no change in the public’s view of whether or not President Trump should be impeached and removed from office. This poll showed that 50% favored it and 43% opposed it. What does it mean and what does it portend for what happens next?

Arguably the lack of change in public sentiment is not due to the impeachment hearing witnesses giving vague and non-credible testimony. The testimony was highly consistent, newsroom@delcotimes.com

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powerful and sounded very credible.

It is also not due to the hearings not being seen or their findings not being publicized; the news media coverage was broad and extensive.

Bottom-line, those opposed to Trump’s removal do not feel his actions were wrong, or that at least they do not rise up to an impeachable level. Or, their loyalty to Donald Trump is so overwhelming that, as many of them have actually opined, there is nothing he could do that would lose him their support.

The uptake of it all, is that it now seems unlikely that public support for Trump’s

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removal will rise much above 50%, a high number, but not a level that will likely compel Republicans to act to remove Trump. Therefore, the fate of Donald Trump’s political life will be settled in the most important “supreme court” of them all in a democracy, the “court of public opinion.”

Politicians and the public often say that every presidential election may be the most important one in the history of our republic, but this time, in the November 2020 election, it may actually be true.

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