A landslide majority of women and independents (62%) in a recent poll believe that Democratic leaders blew it by trying to impeach President Donald Trump instead of letting voters decide whether to remove him from office.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) surveyed the two groups last month in battleground states, including Arizona, Colorado, Maine and North Carolina, and found that 63% of independents and 61% of women believe that Congress should concentrate on key issues such as the economy, healthcare and trade – rather than putting all hands on deck to oust Trump from the White House.

Their opposition to how Democrats, in specific, are handling impeachment was also divulged.

"Furthermore, 58% agree that Democrats should let voters decide for themselves in next November's elections instead of trying to impeach Trump and remove him from office, including 59% of independents and 55% of women," NRSC executive director Kevin McLaughlin points out in a January 29 letter releasing the poll results.

Rios: Propaganda by Democratic 'street fighters' aimed at public By Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com) A pro-family leader says while President Donald Trump's defense team scored a knockout with the president's impeachment acquittal, the Democrats may have won the propaganda war. The long impeachment battle is expected to officially be over this week following the key vote late Friday to deny the calling of additional witnesses. Both sides have the chance to offer their final remarks over the next two days, with a final vote on impeachment expected on Wednesday. Most observers agree that the final result is a foregone conclusion, as it is totally unrealistic to expect that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to remove the president from office. Sixty-seven (67) are needed to impeach. But many analysts believe the Democrats' goal in the impeachment saga is to impact the 2020 election. Sandy Rios, director of governmental affairs at the American Family Association, tends to agree. "The Democratic House managers understand the principle that I think was first articulated by Karl Marx – that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it," Rios shares. "[The public] heard [from the House managers] how guilty the president was, how he withheld aid from poor Ukraine in order to destroy Joe Biden, his political opponent. "The House managers were not playing to the senators," she continues, "they were playing to the American public." Rios describes the House managers as "street fighters" and "propagandists [who] understand propaganda very well." That, she adds, is something about which the president's defense team doesn't have a clue.

And according to that poll, states that have traditionally been Democratic strongholds indicate the same trend.

"In Maine, which has given the collective media a nosebleed as they attempt to put Susan Collins in a box, 59% of voters agree Congress should focus on top issues instead of impeachment and 55% agree that we should let voters decide in November," McLaughlin writes.

McLaughlin

"Perhaps most telling, a whopping 62% of independents in Maine say that we should focus on other issues instead of impeachment, and 58% of independents think we should let the voters decide at the ballot box in November."

And instead of believing the Democrats' narrative that their impeachment campaign is all about holding Trump accountable, an overwhelming majority of voters in general see the proceedings as one party's attack to depose the other.

"Across the board, voters recognize this for what it is: a partisan sideshow. 68% say that impeachment 'is all about politics,'" McLaughlin adds.

GOP sitting pretty

From coast to coast, according to the NRSC, grassroots support for Republicans has drastically shot up in recent years.

"Low dollar donations have increased 214% on average from the second to the third quarter," McLaughlin's letter indicates. "Even more telling, from the third quarter of 2013 to the third quarter of 2019, campaigns have seen an average increase in grassroots donations of a whopping 943%.

"On top of that, the NRSC's historic fundraising in 2019 was driven in large part by grassroots donors. The NRSC mail program has seen a 245% increase from the total raised in 2017, while digital has seen an increase of 312% in the same period."

In addition, more problems are likely for Democrats as the 2020 presidential election nears.

"Then there are the senators who are in the unenviable position of being Democrats in Trump states like Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama," the Western Journal points out. "Jones is only in office because he ran against an incredibly flawed candidate in Roy Moore – and the fact that Trump won the state by over 27 points shows it."

Not too worried

Democrats failed Friday night to get the number of votes they needed for new witnesses in the impeachment proceedings, all but sealing their failure with the upcoming final vote now set for Wednesday. Soon thereafter, Trump indicated with a tweet from a golf course, complete with a photo of himself wearing his patented "Keep America Great" cap, that he was anything but concerned about being removed from office.

"Getting a little exercise this morning!" Trump tweeted early Saturday morning.