Former President Donald Trump has actually gained more popularity than he has lost political influence since leaving office, according to a senior reporter for the U.S. media outlet Politico.
This is the first rare admission by a mainstream media reporter that the assumptions of American citizens are very different from those of the Washington, D.C., establishment and many in the mainstream media.
“People don’t want to hear anything against Trump,” Politico reporter Tara Palmeri told MSNBC on Friday (Jan. 29). In fact, the more he stays away from the media, the more he becomes like a martyr, a stealth figure above the Republican Party.”
Palmieri said that according to her observations, there are now “crusades” on behalf of former President Trump in states such as Wyoming, where Trump is “more popular” than the state’s top congressional Republican, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (D-Calif.) “.
Palmieri came to that conclusion after traveling to the area to chat with people about Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump and to get a closer look at Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R) local challenge to Cheney’s rally on Thursday (28).
“I actually tried everything I could to find someone to defend her, but I couldn’t really find one.” Palmieri said, “Considering she’s Cheney’s (former vice president’s daughter), (but apparently) she’s not that well known locally …… When I said her name at a hardware store, someone yelled (that she was) a threat.”
Palmieri said the “overwhelming” consensus she heard from voters was that Cheney’s move to vote for impeachment “does not represent Wyoming” and “therefore she must step down.
She said what is considered “the truth” in Washington, D.C., is not accepted in Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital. Palmieri said locals believe the 2020 presidential election is illegitimate and that the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol were “the work of Antifa.
She described Wyoming as a different world. “I don’t think that we can ignore it, and I’m glad I went there and saw it because I think there’s a huge disconnect between Washington DC and the rest of the country.”
She added: “A lot of locals say that they’re not really Republicans, like they say that they support Trump. I think (Trump’s) base is getting bigger and bigger. I think impeachment (of a conviction) would give him more credibility.”
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Cheney is the highest-ranking of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on the 13th, and she is the No. 3 Republican Party figure.
Republican voters are dissatisfied with the Democratic-led rush to impeach, arguing that without due process – no formal hearings, no evidence, no witnesses, no cross-examination – the impeachment of Trump was launched, while voters feel betrayed by Cheney’s actions.
Cheney’s district, Carbon County, Wyoming, the Republican Central Committee unanimously passed a resolution censuring Cheney on the 16th.
The resolution said that Cheney was elected by a majority of Wyoming voters and that she should have represented the will, values and preferences of the majority of Wyoming voters; even voters voted and supported President Trump’s re-election at a higher rate than they did Cheney’s; but Cheney failed the voters, failed to faithfully represent the vast majority of Wyoming voters, and neglected her duty to represent the party and those who elected her to represent them. the will of the people.
Subsequently, Republican congressmen also launched a campaign to remove Cheney from the chairmanship of the Republican Party Convention.
The latest polls show that Cheney’s support for re-election in 2022 has dropped to 13 percent.
Corey Lewandowski, a longtime campaign adviser to former President Trump, told Fox News on Thursday (28) that Trump continues to have tremendous support and approval among Republican voters, and that Republican lawmakers who ignore public opinion and rush to endorse political impeachment will face challenges.
Referring to Cheney’s latest poll, Lewandowski said, “I think Cheney has realized that in a state with over 64 percent Republican support – some say the most Republican or conservative state in the country – based on rhetorical vote to impeach someone is going to trigger real-world repercussions.”
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