Trump Campaign Sees Impeachment Motivating Base

Wall Street Journal: “Faced with running for re-election under the shadow of impeachment proceedings, President Trump and allies are waging an aggressive counterprogramming effort, embracing the sharp rhetoric that defined his 2016 bid. It isn’t impeachment, they say, it is an attempted coup.”

“Mr. Trump and his advisers have calculated that mounting a partisan battle, similar to that over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, feeds into a 2020 strategy largely contingent on energizing the Republican base and beating Democrats at the voter turnout game.”