Note to the Left: Impeachment is Not the Same Thing as a Recall Election

Each day this week, it seems as if the American left has come up with a story that they believe will lead to President Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.  On Monday, the Washington Post reported that President Trump revealed classified information to Russian diplomats during a meeting last week.  On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Trump told former FBI Director James Comey "I hope you can let this go", regarding the investigation into his former national security advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.  Trump’s loudest critics are now saying that he obstructed justice.  

 

No politician has been met with such resistance and vitriol since Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the most recent Governor to be recalled.  When Walker, who was first elected in 2010, dared take on the very powerful public sector unions, protests erupted throughout the state capital of Madison.  Soon enough, he faced a recall election less than two years into his term.  No sitting Governor had ever survived a recall election.  That is, until, Scott Walker.  Walker managed to win his recall election by an even bigger margin than he won by in 2010. Two years later, Walker managed to win re-election to a second full term, despite enormous opposition from the left.  Apparently, the voters of Wisconsin actually like balanced budgets and job creation.   

 

Unfortunately for the left, impeachment is not the same thing as a recall.  There is no such thing as a presidential recall. Impeachment is a very lengthy and complicated process.  Removal from office requires the support of two-thirds of Senators.  Even if the President were to be impeached, it’s not like he can be immediately replaced by the Democrats’ chosen candidate.  In such a scenario, he would be replaced by Vice President Mike Pence, a Republican.  The Democrats will have to wait until at least January 20, 2021 for a Hollywood-approved, secular-progressive social justice warrior to sit in the oval office. 

 

The closest thing the Democrats have to a recall is the 2018 midterm election, which will effectively serve as a referendum on President Trump’s first two years in office.  The Democrats are extremely overextended in the Senate; they will be defending 25 seats, while the Republicans will be defending just eight.  Of the 25 seats Democrats have up for re-election next year, five of them are in states that President Trump won by double digits.[1]  Of the eight seats Republicans are defending next year, only one of them is in a state won by Hillary Clinton.  She just barely carried Nevada, winning the state by less than 3 points.   The Democrats need to pick up at least three seats to gain control of the upper chamber. The math and the map are not working in their favor.

 

The Democrats have higher hopes of winning back the US House of Representatives.  They need to pick up at least 24 seats in order for that to happen; unless they manage to pick up some seats in the special elections that will be held in the next couple of weeks.  Should the Democrats manage to gain control of the lower chamber, the President’s life will certainly be more difficult; however, he will still have the power to veto legislation. 

 

The members of the corrupt and biased mainstream media want so badly to take down a sitting President.  They fantasize about becoming the next Woodward and Bernstein.  They desperately want every unflattering story about Trump to turn into the next Watergate.  They want to be a part of history.  This desire is so strong that they are willing to throw all time-honored journalistic standards out the window just to make the President look bad.  Just look at what Dan Rather did to George W. Bush.  But the Trump haters in today's media would surely sacrifice their own careers to get their enemy out of office.  Hopefully, Trump supporters will be watching with enjoyment as all of the media's desperate attempts to take Trump down blow up in their faces. 

 

It should be clear that the left is using the same intimidation tactics towards President Trump that they used when they were trying to get rid of Gov. Scott Walker in 2012.  Walker kept his promises and the voters decided to keep him in office.  President Trump has a lot he can learn from what happened in Wisconsin.  If President Trump keeps his campaign promises, he will sail to re-election in 2020 no matter how relentless the left is in trying to sabotage him. 

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[1] Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia.