We never had the opportunity to vote for an Impeached President before Trump.

[pwb]

Clinton's Impeachment was in his second term. Only pukes would think that being impeached would not matter to voters. It apparently does. That and we all learned what an asshole trump was for the last four years. We didn't want this guy to be president and we defeated him soundly.

[TwilightZone]

1. Trump lost primarily because of Covid response.

More accurately, the lack thereof. If he hadn't been completely incompetent in that regard, he might have won.

There's little evidence that the impeachment negatively impacted voters. In fact, it might be the opposite - it was one of the only times in his presidency that he got a bump in the polls.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. Trump's incompetence wasn't COVID specific.

Trump was summarily and generally incompetent. He had no interest in governing and never will. His only interest is in PERFORMING and receiving praise and adulation for his performance. He DID discover that, in order to maintain control over his role and stay out of jail, he had to continually increase his power. And this he had to do because he wasn't earning the right to be president by actually governing. His only skill was at emotional manipulation, and he was a master at pulling millions of people into his fantasy world.

[ananda]

4. Why that impeachment didn't impact more voters is beyond me.

He was always so fucking corrupt and immoral. It was obvious,
not coded or hidden.

And yet... even so-called xtians gave him a pass.

!@#$%

[Pantagruel]

5. Convicted or not

Trump is a wounded animal. Yes he got 74 mil. votes but that was before the Capitol riot and the SECOND impeachment. I think Trump fatigue is finally settling in and Biden is providing a competent, honest alternative that would easily prevail in '24. Let the GOP Senators wear the shameful acquittal label and work confidently toward the mid-terms.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. The opposition ads that would run...

If he tried to run again would use truth to completely destroy him. I would kinda like to be at the writers meeting for the ads that would run.