Trump's base is his buffer to keep from being convicted in the Senate.

[kentuck]

Trump has had three rallies this week alone.

The purpose is to consolidate his base and to keep the Senate from convicting him in an impeachment trial.

The base is his insurance policy.

So long as he can put the fear of God in Republicans running for re-election, then he is fairly sure he will never be convicted by the Republican toadies in the US Senate.

[Garrett78]

1. Absolutely. See here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12596131

[beachbumbob]

2. the mere impeachment will rally many more democrats than any non-conviction in Senate will

rally trump supporters.

With out a 3rd party candidate to siphon off votes and many independent/democrats who voted for trump in 2016 that won;t do that again, 2020 will be a GOP fiasco year unseen in history

[abqtommy]

3. tRUMP's constantly dwindling base is the real minority in the US and don't forget it. So sad they

mad but if they wanna be bad we can handle that too.