<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">"House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says impeaching President Donald Trump is “not a priority” for Democrats despite the conviction of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and the guilty plea of his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Pelosi tells The Associated Press that “impeachment has to spring from something else.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Pelosi says she prefers for Democrats, if they win the House in November, to conduct oversight and ensure Special Counsel Robert Mueller can finish his work.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">She says: “If and when the information emerges about that, we’ll see. It’s not a priority on the agenda going forward unless something else comes forward.”...</p><p class="gmail-clay-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Pelosi underscored that message in a letter sent to caucus members on Wednesday, urging them to keep talking about the “cesspool of self-enrichment, secret money and ethical blindness” and how House Republicans are turning a “blind eye to the corruption and criminality at the heart of President Trump’s inner circle.”</p><p class="gmail-clay-paragraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(9,9,9);line-height:28.8px;font-size:16px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:"liga","dlig";margin:0px 0px 1.5em;font-family:"Source Serif Pro",serif">Corruption scandals have helped swing midterm elections in the past, and beyond Trump’s legal troubles, this message was bolstered by recent corruption charges against Representatives Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter. But Pelosi emphasized that Democrats “must also stay focused on delivering our strong economic message to hard-working families across America.”</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:56 AM Sunil Ramalingam <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">'Nope. So the strategy of the Democrats is to first impeach and remove Trump,<s> then impeach and remove
Pence, then impeach and remove Paul Ryan</s>, etc. rather than to actually campaign and deliver on policy issues (such as
<s>border security and the like</s> meaningful health care reform and lowering student debt) that are key to the voting public.'</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Janesta Sullivan; Ron Force<br>
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Nope. So the strategy of the Democrats is to first impeach and remove Trump, then impeach and remove Pence, then impeach and remove Paul Ryan, etc. rather than to actually campaign and deliver on policy issues (such as border security and the like) that are
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<div id="m_-8067172416054404994x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Janesta Sullivan <<a href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">janesta@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 22, 2018 6:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ron Force<br>
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<div>Does anyone really want Pence?<br>
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On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Ron Force <<a href="mailto:ronforce@gmail.com" id="m_-8067172416054404994LPlnk355005" class="m_-8067172416054404994OWAAutoLink" target="_blank">ronforce@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="m_-8067172416054404994x_x_gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Needs 2/3rds vote of the Senate for conviction, so it's pointless without a huge swing in political power or public opinion. I don't see any Howard Bakers on the Republican side (a la Nixon & Watergate)
willing to convict a criminal President of their own party. The Republicans made the same miscalculation with Clinton, but it did rid us (mostly) Of Newt Gingrich. </div>
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"Even Democrats are mostly keeping quiet about impeachment to avoid motivating the Republican base before the elections. Public opinion polls have also shown a general unease among the American public when asked if they would like to see Trump impeached should
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