On Wednesday’s Cuomo Prime Time after the House vote to impeach President Trump, CNN weekend host and Philadelphia radio personality Michael Smerconish took a shot at the American voters by kvetching that, according to polls, support for impeachment has gone down.

And as for why, he surmised that it’s perhaps because Americans have incorrectly deemed it too partisan, decided to tune it out, and that they’re too busy to truly understand the severity of Trump’s actions.

Smerconish began by stating that he’s “most interested to see whether the result of today and tonight is a momentum shift” and predicted that more people tuned into the impeachment vote “than at any other point in this process” even though ratings for impeachment hearings tanked after not being very strong to begin with.

He then complained:

SMERCONISH: But here's the question that needs to be answered. Why has public support for impeachment actually declined as the hearings have played themselves out? CUOMO: And his approval is up. SMERCONISH: And his approval is up.

Alluding to various polls like one from Marquette University of Wisconsin voters and a national Gallup poll, he determined that enough Americans (unfairly) tuned out and were too busy to realize that “the underlying facts are pretty straight forward” (click “expand”):

SMERCONISH: My own theory is most Americans, many Americans in the end because it got so damn nasty, just decided to chalk this up to partisan bickering. Pinnace of partisanship. You asked Maggie what's the headline of the future, that would be mine. I don’t think this was born of partisanship. I think this was born of his conduct and frankly, the underlying facts are pretty straight forward in the end, but it was very hard for people who are working for a living and raising kids and so forth to follow all the names and places and the dates and I think — CUOMO: So why would that be redound to his benefit? SMERCONISH: — I think a lot it have got chalked up to it’s really more fighting going on in Washington. We have an election — here’s the answer to your question — we have an answer on the horizon, let's revolve it at the ballot box.

But here’s the problem with his thinking: If that’s true and voters decided at various points to tune out the inquiry, then why did impeachment support drop? If they were appalled to begin with, shouldn’t their positions have remained the same through their reprieve from following the news?

Legal analyst Preet Bharara joined in, stating without any evidence that “more people probably paid attention today as we got to the seriousness of the final moment of the vote on impeachment,” “the nation got a little quieter,” and that more would tune in for the Senate trial and that could cause more people to support removing Trump.

Earlier in the discussion, the panel interestingly departed from its usual liberal cheerleading to note the contradictory nature of House Democrats appearing to delay the sending of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate and thus delay the trial.

Bharara conceded that the delay “doesn’t make a lot of sense” seeing as how “the Democrats have been saying I think correctly for a long time we're in a rush, we got to do this quickly, we can't wait, this person is a recidivist, the President can't be allowed to do this again and now you're going to say hurry up, hurry up, we did this before Christmas, now wait.”

Host Chris Cuomo continued along that line that there’s “a little bit of gamesmanship, a little bit of chicken” but also “a little contradictory” behavior from Democrats since “you say he's a threat, a continuing threat, but now you’re delaying.”

New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman agreed “it’s actually a risky play” seeing as how “there have been a lot of competing messages coming out of the House Democrats” by “describ[ing] him as a national emergency over and over again” while they’re going to give Trump a victory with passage of the USMCA.

“Voters do have trouble understanding two things at once sometimes, and I'm not sure how this helps the House case,” she concluded.

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time on December 18, click “expand.”