Trump Bets Impeachment Threat Will Boost Midterms Turnout

Donald Trump spoke at a sort of pep rally for House Republicans on Tuesday as part of an effort to get the lawmakers locked and loaded for a year focused on an uphill effort to maintain GOP control of that chamber in the November midterms. He knows, and they know, that history and his own chronically underwater job-approval ratings make continued House control a poor bet at best. But in addressing them, he didn’t entirely focus on the cool stuff Republicans could do together in 2027 if they hung onto their fragile governing trifecta. Instead, he warned of a terrible thing that could happen if the Democrats flip the House, as NBC News reports:

President Donald Trump had a warning for Republicans on Tuesday: If they don’t retain control of Congress in this year’s midterm elections, Democrats will impeach him again.

“You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said in a speech at a House Republican policy retreat. “I’ll get impeached.”

This “warning” isn’t just a matter of Trump being self-absorbed (though self-absorption is definitely an element in everything he says and does). It seems Republicans have decided to make the threat of a third Trump impeachment a major get-out-the-vote talking point for the midterms, as NBC News reported back in July:

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