In another freewheeling, off-the-cuff, hour-long diatribe, Donald Trump last night reinforced why the Republican establishment is mortified he will almost single-handily lose the majority for them in Congress this fall.
Trump tells a crowd at a rally in Michigan that he might support a government shutdown this fall if Congress doesn't meet his funding demands for border security https://t.co/zmNffRZcaH pic.twitter.com/8hN7mORFw0
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 29, 2018
Despite polling that shows the House all but lost and the Senate in play, Trump is doubling down, refusing to concede the perils of his ways.
From the New York Times:
- “President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president’s advisers nervous that he does not grasp the gravity of the threat they face in the midterm elections.”
- “Over dinner with the president and other Republican congressional leaders this month, Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, phrased his advice for the president in the form of a reminder: Mr. Trump should never forget his central role in the 2018 campaign, Mr. McConnell said, explaining that Republicans’ prospects are linked to what he says and does and underscoring that their one-seat advantage in the Senate was in jeopardy.”
- “If Mr. McConnell’s warning was not clear enough, Marc Short, the White House’s legislative liaison, used the dinner to offer an even starker assessment. The G.O.P.’s House majority is all but doomed, he said.”
- “But Mr. Trump was not moved. “That’s not going to happen.”
But last night in Michigan, he sounded like he was moved, telling the crowd Republicans need to maintain control of the House of he’ll face impeachment.
“We have to keep the House because if we listen to Maxine Waters, she’s going around saying ‘We will impeach him.’ ”
Waters has called on Trump to resign.
From The Hill: A Quinnipiac Poll released last week shows that if Democrats win the House, more than 70 percent of their supporters want to begin impeachment proceedings.