California financier Tom Steyer’s $20 million ad campaign to impeach President Donald Trump has alienated some of the Democratic leaders with the influence to make impeachment a reality.
Some within the Democratic leadership fear that aggressively pursuing impeachment will only serve to turn Republican and independents against the party and jeopardize their opportunity to flip Congress in 2018.
“I’ve been a very harsh critic of this president….But the impeachment message right now is not helpful to the possibility of retaking the House,” Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, chairman of the fiscally moderate New Democratic Coalition, told The Wall Street Journal.
Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund founder, dismissed the pragmatic criticisms brought by lawmakers and suggested the impeachment ads serve a higher goal.
“I understand that there are people who think that from a tactical political standpoint it may not be clever,” Steyer said. “We’re not trying to be clever.”
The ads have run on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, local broadcast stations, Times Square and Twitter. The segments, which cast Trump’s firing of former FBI director James Comey as obstruction, direct viewers to a virtual impeachment petition website, that 2.6 million people have signed in the month since the campaign began.
Steyer, who has spent over $170 million to support Democratic causes and candidates over the last three years, claims the ad campaign is designed to put sufficient public pressure on lawmakers that they secure the necessary coalition to impeach.
Some Democrats appreciate Steyer’s enthusiasm but don’t believe his efforts are likely to assist in the party’s most pressing concern, the 2018 congressional races
“I like Tom, and he means well,” said Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts. “And he certainly believes he’s doing the right thing for the country….[but] I don’t think the impeachment conversation necessarily helps in House races.”
As well they should be afraid. To be impeached, Trump had to committed a crime. There is no proof and the alleged “crimes” cited by the morons who introduced the articles are Leftist fantasies.
A twisted Soros junior.
Tom Steyer is proof, there is no positive correlation between money and intelligence.
I vote they keep it up. It just helps to expose their agenda.
Personally, i need more popcorn. The show just keeps getting better and better.
No crime so no impeachment is possible. If somehow they pulled it off I guarantee it will be the Second American Civil War and we will not take liberal prisoners.
Ads!? You know what draws more attention? And FREE air-time? Swarms of people. Conveniently located and scheduled for videoing (live or edited for the, otherwise, most expensive “news”-cast). This Loyal American should hire deplorable looking Americans to wave signs, demanding Trump’s impeachment, and supporting the most “huggable” local communist. Show of hands: How many of you will show up for an “Impeachment Protest” for “fair and reasonable” compensation. (And NO! Don’t offer to do it for free. “Deplorables” are always whining about illionaires bringing in “ringers” willing to do the job, however poorly, for less money, to drive down the “fair and reasonable” rate of “deplorables”. Don’t be that guy.)
I have seen the stupid ads with the senile looking man talking who appears to be wearing pajamas. Dullest thing on television.
“…that 2.6 million people have signed in the month since the campaign began.”
So in reality that means roughly half of the signatures are fraudulent?
Just like half of the Jug-Eared Narcissist and Felonia Von Pantsuit’s social media followers were fake!
His ad makes him look like a prison planet freak.
So are all this people who are so unhappy they want to impeach our president giving away all the money they are making in the market since he was elected? Surely they hate him for that as well