Rural voters question Democrat’s vote against impeachment

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) was one of two Democrats who broke from their party and voted against the Impeachment resolution into President Donald Trump, and voters in his district are having mixed reactions to his stance. CNN's Kyung Lah reports. #CNN #News

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    1. thegrandfinale2 and yet here you are, ranting and raving because none of CNN’s journalists have the smell of Fat-Nixon’s taint on their noses. Go back to state-run media over on Faux ‘News’ to find your MAGAt safe space!

  1. “A young Republican with progressive ideas…”
    Think about that for a second.

    I’m glad I asked about this, i believe ideals need to be discussed without “too much” discourse.

    1. @Strangest Craze – ”To give credit where credit is due.” That’s the spirit.
      In these partisan times, unfortunately that spirit is gone, and compromise is a bad word.

      In climate marches, gen z is the driving force.

    2. There is no such thing as a “progressive republican”. at least not anymore. Mr Trump enjoys 80% support from GOP voters. this means that an overwhelming majority of GOP voters support a racist, demagogic, populist who lacks a basic understanding of the US Constitution and demonstrated zero respect for the rule of law. This is not a thing conservatives would have ANYTHING to do with, t his is why those who support Mr Trump are called “pseudo-conservative” and “pseudo-conservatism” is a symptom of disordered psychology. This has been understood since the late 1950’s when true conservatives (like Barry Goldwater) relegated them to the margins they earned.

      https://theamericanscholar.org/the-pseudo-conservative-revolt/#.Xcj8OVdKhaQ

    3. @Orlando Tourist Traps Oh my, you sure told CNN!
      What’s funny about that is that the Fox Noise model has so distorted your understanding of reality that you believe that sort of behavior is normal. It is not. It’s the same reason republicans are supporting a president who is so devoid or morals or respect for the law. You’ve been told for decades that Democrats have been committing crimes non-stop. It’s not true of course, but pseudo-conservatives aren’t big on evidence or reality.

    1. Andy C It’s not because of the taxes. It’s because housing prices are so high. The reason why housing prices are so high in California is because of the tech industry. The tech industry attracts the highest paying workers. They pay the highest in rent and mortgages. They’re driving housing costs up. It’s happening in Massachusetts Boston as well. State some facts not your dog,. The worst thing in the world is a stupid person

    1. JEFE… YOU ARE NOT KIDDING. THAT IS ALL THESE FRUIT CAKES CAN DO IF NOT THEY ARE OUT. IT’S ZUCKER’S WAY OR THE HIGHWAY… WHAT A DISGRACE.

    2. Orlando Pipo Marrero working for a tyrant like zucker must be horrible.
      I would imagine that the majority of cnn employees are liberals but I would bet they would still like do something other than bash the president every hour of every day.

  2. You shouldn’t be “loyal” to the Democratic or Republican party. They should be loyal to you, the people!

    1. C T he still had 5 years. When General Flynn case is threw out of court people will start being arrested. It will all start after that.

    2. Don’t the two snowflake Democrats feel like a-holes now, after the testimonies from Taylor/Kent, and Yovanovitch.

  3. Zuckerberg who doesn’t even let his family use Facebook, doesn’t care as long as he makes enough money to essentially be his own country!

    1. @d me, don’t feel bad, I saw a College Astrophysicist yesterday thar couldn’t spell President Trump’s name correctly either. That Liberal educated failure to Society spelled it ,”drumph” or some really ignorant arrangement.

  4. A decent human being and a responsible citizen would vote with their conscience and the good for society, not for their desire to stay in the seat of power or money or self-interest.

    1. It proves that politicians are too partisan. If you get 100 normal people in a room to vote on a good idea, it ends up 90 yes 10 no. Take that very same idea in Congress and you get a 51-49 vote. When one party is always siding with whatever goes against the other; then Houston We Have a Problem. Normal group of people would pass immigration loophole bill, USMCA bill, and lower medication costs bill in a heartbeat. Being those are not going to be brought to vote cause Dems have majority – is WRONG. And wrong never is right.

    2. The impeachment is feature of desperation. The democrat rats are not interested in anything that does not remove Trump. Not a good look. The Ciamarella News Network is fake news.

    3. Not necessarily. He for sure knew the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry would pass, so voting against to improve chances of keeping the seat could be argued as the more principled approach. I don’t feel that way, but there is a case there.

    4. maybe. maybe not. would you rather have a hard-right guy in his place? sometimes being strategic (when you know vote will pass anyway) is a smart move.

      peterson is an odd political duck. but he mostly votes dem in what’s basically a reddish district. he’s voted “with trump” since 2019 (116th congress) 20% of the time – down from 67% for 115th congress (starting in 2017)

      and you can think 20% is bad but click on “senators” then “115th congress” and then click TWICE on header of “trump score”

      and look at all the senators ABOVE 20%
      https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/

      he’s w/ dems for the big votes. that matters.

    1. Journalism and CNN should never appear in the same sentence or even the same universe. CNN is the fakest of the fake bull💩 FAKE “news”

  5. So what you are saying is that the congressman is representing his constituency? How could this be allowed to happen?

  6. 3:19 Damn that screen changed way too fast, almost had a heart attack, i thought it was Pennywise with that creepy smile!

  7. Why was Peterson not interviewed? Maybe he voted that way because his belief is Trump did nothing wrong. Does CNN only want to push one possible reason? More than likely.

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