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Sat Sep 28, 2019, 01:24 AM Sep 2019

Trump, impeachment, and alternate realities

By Peter Grier Staff writer
Christa Case Bryant Staff writer
Patrik Jonsson Staff writer

MANCHESTER, N.H., AND TYBEE ISLAND, GA.

... The longtime Granite State resident says that she’s against it. “From the moment he won, you heard about impeachment,” she says. Democrats in Congress “have spent a lot of time and money not doing their job,” she adds.

Where does she get her information on U.S. politics? Ms. Blasik, a long-time independent who voted for Mr. Trump, says she watches all the news channels but always comes back to Fox News, because she feels it best enables her to make up her own mind.

Ed Thomas has a very different point of view. Readying his fishing bait on the docks at Tybee Island, Georgia, he says he’d been waffling on whether to impeach the president or let the people oust him on Election Day. But after seeing the latest headlines he now is now leaning toward impeachment of a president he calls “nasty and divisive.”

“Get rid of him, I say,” says the resident of Daytona, Florida. Mr. Thomas’s go-to source of political news, he adds, is MSNBC ...

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/0927/Trump-impeachment-and-US-voters-alternate-realities

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