Chuck Todd Whines About Unmoving Polls, ‘Bizarre’ Trump Gets Cheered

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 18, 2019
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Moments after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) began tallying the House vote for the first Article of Impeachment against President Trump Wednesday night, NBC political director Chuck Todd began to complain about how the latest NBC News poll on impeachment showed an unpersuaded public. To that, he huffed about the “factual debate” and how he found it “bizarre” that the President was getting cheered at a rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Immediately after being introduced by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, Todd declared that President Trump was successful in creating a “polarized picture of America”:

Look, politically it's the only way to survive this process. Which is rally the party to your side, polarize the process. And look, this has been a successful strategy for this President, to survive the impeachment process, politically. Meaning not get ousted from office, try to make it so that it's impossible for a Republican to criticize him in public.

So, on that score, succeeded in creating this, but all he's done is fought this to a draw. This is polarized picture of America.

“I mean, the Democratic Party almost is united in believing he needs to go, and the Republican Party is almost united in believing this is a witch hunt,” he continued, getting to their poll findings. “And you do have a small slice, but it exists, and we have it in our polling actually out tonight, Lester. In the middle, independents literally are split down the middle on this question.

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